When I was a kid, my olds and I used to frequent a dingy but delightful Vietnamese dining joint called Binh Minh, in Richmond’s Victoria St, the ‘Vietnam-town’ of Melbourne. I loved their salt and pepper squid: fried calamari, lightly […]
Walnuts: one of the cooler nuts in the whole wild nut family—unique in shape, simultaneously crisp, buttery and crumbly, slightly bitter, jammed to the nutshell full of nutrient. The only way to improve on such a natural delight is to […]
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 […]
As part of our troika of ‘short easy ones’ this week, today we’re dishing up a dose of artisan panache to the share house table—sh.k smoked trout dip; creamy, zesty, chivey, trouty, smoky, couldn’t be easier to whip up, and […]
Our reluctant vegie patch, cordoned by brick, shrapnel and dirt in the concrete rear of the Prince Albert, was overrun seasonally by vicious greens, most amounting to foul jungle—half-weed, half-spinach monstrosities that, with only the scantest of sunlight, protruded from […]
My Stepdad, Von was a share house veteran. His tales of share house living in regional Victoria are, at best, raw. At the end of one lease, he and his housemates put on a party so cordial that the guests […]
Life at the Slam Palace was choc full of sunshine and tasty good times. When it came to dining in our swank inner Fitzroy share house abode, we extended a no fuss sensibility; rarely glamorous, our meals typically straddled the […]