I'm sitting watching the rain on an unusually cool, wet March Adelaide day, International Women's Day actually. I have bread in the oven...

Just when we thought we had survived the pandemic without catching the virus, there it was, BAM- both struck down and into iso. My many...

I define Cooking for a Siege as cooking with what we have available so we can sustain each other in difficult times. This approach has...

It's been a bumper year for tomatoes as the weather was mild for Adelaide and the usual searing heat of summer did not appear and destroy...

The small but famous Green and Gold Cookery Book first published in 1923 in South Australia as a school fundraiser sits proudly on my...

There are different types of sieges. A hostile army surrounding your city walls, a global pandemic locking borders and forcing you to...

Just when we thought things were getting better, they got worse. We haven’t been able to avoid the Delta COVID strain and even our little...

In the depths of winter, the urge to curl up with a book, a glass of red wine and a tasty snack is always there, but our need to escape...

This year there is an abundance of citrus and trees are dripping with fruit including the small one in the pot on our back decking....

This beautifully complex Easter cake is from Napoli. It takes between one and three days to make depending on whether you can buy rather...

The last days of Summer and early Autumn is when eggplants come into their own. This year we have had a cool summer, not really a summer...

When I was at high school, my mum came home one day with a strange, exotic Italian vegetable called a zucchini. She had asked the green...

In Italian the word is correct. Il pomodoro (the love apple) best conjures the passion and beauty of summer. On the slopes of Vesuvius...

When travelling in Italy, we are asked about culture in Australia including what is traditional to eat at Christmas. These are difficult...

This year has been cooler with spring coming slowly and as is the case in the time between seasons, the veggie box continues to contain...

Here are two incredibly simple and delicious potato recipes. Potato Pizza Assunta, Raffaele's mother, often made this yummy dish. It...

After months of winter vegetables, I patiently wait for the first signs of spring in the Farmers' Market. For me that means broad beans,...

In our city, life is nearly back to normal as we are now able to go to the movies, eat a meal with friends in a restaurant and be out as...

This ancient recipe is found in Puglia under different dialect names and there is a similar crumbled pasta in Greek cooking. We know it...

My friend Nicki is a total foody like me. In fact, she's taught me so much about honouring the traditions of the past and the importance...