Our beloved housemate, Dominguez, one of the earth’s few Spanish vegetarians (a nation known for 100 varieties of ham and few leafy greens) was the wielder of many a vegetarian delight. As well as a mean gazpacho, Dominguez would cheerily […]
My good mate, Rock’s sharehouse developed their own time tested culinary ritual—at least once every month, all funds drained, he and his housemates loaded every vegetable and skerrick of produce lurking in their fridge into a giant pot in the […]
Back at the olds’ joint, before I moved into the Laundrette, next to the stove dwelled a dog-eared Women’s Weekly recipe book—“Thai Style Cookery”—first printed in 1972 or thereabouts and probably never again, an era when canary-fluoro lemon chicken was […]
All aboard the lettuce boat! This week, we’ve created something that rivals even the best San Choi Bao, one of my favourite Asian treats. Years ago I tried to recreate the magic at the share house. All was going fairly […]
My old pal Benny used to love Sriracha. He called it ‘cock sauce’, as many do, a cheeky take on the rooster logo on the exterior of this particular Asian chilli condiment. Benny used to drizzle cock sauce on everything. […]
This one goes out to my old man, a rendition of one of his very favourite late night snacks. It’s also one that I wish I had the forethought to concoct when I was jonesing for late night munchies back […]
The expression ‘Japanese full’ got bandied around quite a bit back in our sharehouse days. That elusive 80% mark; genuine post-meal satisfaction, without feeling like a garden rotunda. We used it normally as a benchmark for knowing just how far […]
For a brief time, in between stints at the Slam Palace and the P.A Mansion, I lived in a sharehouse a walk away from Victoria St, Richmond, the commercial strip in inner Melbourne known for a few things—heroin, traffic congestion […]
The kitchen smells like fag ends and stale yeast. Your head is a bottle of ghosts, mouth like a fur boot. The lounge, a forest of empties, footprints on the ceiling. In the backyard, someone you’ve never seen before is […]
I’d never heard of it either. But let it be known—this delicate starter is unlike anything else you’ve ever ingested. It’s like chomping on a rainforest and having the full spectrum of the human flavour palette erupt on your tongue, […]