Retro Easter Part 3: The Eggs-travaganza
I solemnly promise that will be my only egg pun for this whole post. But really, what is Easter about if it’s not about eggs? What? Well, yeah, ok sure it’s about Jesus….but eggs are important too....
View ArticleSportsman’s Saturday Salad
Great name huh? It just kinda rolls off the tongue. Sportsman’s Saturday Salad. I have no idea why it is called that; but the name instils visions of mad hungry footballers coming home after a match...
View ArticleFavourite Tomato Salad
As we approach the day of sickening oversentimentality love, it seems fitting to devote a post to the love apple aka the tomato. And just to further add to my bah humbug disdain of the day, I...
View ArticleMexi-Can! Chili Con Carne
It’s been a while since we dipped into the pages of The A-Z of Cooking…and yep, we’re still only up to C. This time though we head away from the fun, fun, fun of Children’s Favourites and into the...
View ArticleSickeningly Good Chicken Chowder
Huh…in case you’re wondering why it’s two for one day here at RFFMT, it’s because I only realised that I hadn’t posted this recipe for Chicken Chowder which I wrote weeks ago, when I went to post my...
View ArticleMock Food (And a Real Cocktail)
The Irish artist Francis Bacon once famously declared Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends. Today, friends we are looking at some sham or mock foods. And we may not have...
View ArticleShish Kebabs
So as luck would have it, the week I wanted to write about the Turkish meal of Shish kebabs, there has been a diplomatic incident between Australia and Turkey. But this blog is not afraid to tackle...
View ArticleHoney, I Shrunk the Pies!
Happy Pieathalon People of the internet! Yep, it’s that special time of year when a group of bloggers get together and bake the good, the bad and the ugly of vintage pies! It’s also my birthday week...
View ArticleCheese-Stuffed Chillies
These cheese-stuffed chillies are based on a recipe from the Ceylon section of Good Housekeeping’s World Cookery Book. So…I know a little bit about Sri Lankan cooking and never have I ever heard of a...
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