A Chorizo Celebration
December 21, 2010
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Showing your gourmet skills in the kitchen is extremely difficult when you have none. I’m always looking for some little tricks that make dishes look, taste, smell or just sound a little better or little more intricate. One way of achieving this is using some of the easiest gourmet ingredients you can get your hands on (I’m looking at you, prosciutto). I’ve found such an ingredient in chorizo, and it is remarkably versatile. Read more…
I love the idea of giving someone a gift basket or a hamper filled with lots of delicious goodies, but I often find there are one or two things you find in a pre-made hamper that just don’t cut the mustard. Sometimes it’s the mustard.
Over the last week or so I have been helping run the Coles online Easter Egg Hunt. Which has been a lot of fun. It’s been great to meet a lot of new people who’ve really enjoyed the thrill of the hunt. Which made me wonder what other people do to celebrate Easter. It also prompted me to think and plan what we would do for Easter this year now my kids are growing up a bit.
I am not a good cook. I don’t think I’m a bad cook – I just can’t claim proficiency in something I attempt rarely. To put this in perspective, I lived in an apartment without a fridge for six months. As a 30 year old professional, not a student. Admittedly in St Kilda next door to a restaurant and opposite a 200m stretch of eclectic (and all-encompassing) takeaway options, but hopefully you get the picture. Cooking has not been a central theme in my life. 
Duncan: Everyone loves a mango – they are after all the most popular fruit in the world today. But do you know where they originally came from, how many varieties are grown in Australia, how to select one ready for eating, how to store it or prepare it, and how much good it is doing you? If not, read on to find out…
