I’ve been on school holidays for exactly 1 week – although that includes a weekend and a public holiday, so I’ve had 4 days of no work. The weather has been stunning, and I’ve been a mixture of busy and relaxed – doing personal admin bits, as well as simply binge watching Netflix shows. Life…

What drives a desire to cook? What is the initial reason that someone decides that making the food they eat is rewarding? Who decided that the time taken to prepare a meal for themselves (or their family and friends) was better than going out to a restaurant, or ordering in take away? These days we…

A few weeks ago I thought about dishes that I could make in my slow cooker again – as it’s been a bit neglected (along with this blog). So I started searching through Pinterest and came to a lot of posts about jambalaya. I immediately thought back to my university years, remembering how much I…

I made my own recipe!!!! I’ve been experimenting with things in the kitchen, trying to come up with something that I can truly call mine. I’m sure people have done it before me, but this recipe came about for a reason. Ever since the opening of Live Zero’s bulk buy shop, I’ve been trying to…

I cannot tell you how much I love flipping through Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients. It just makes things so simple, especially recipes that seem like they might take a lot of time, or effort. But he makes it so that you can create dishes that will seem like they took forever, and impress your friends,…

Today should have been my Nanna’s 85th birthday. It would have been a quiet celebration with my Grandad, where they would most likely have gone to lunch at their favourite restaurant (the same one they went to for all birthdays and anniversaries). Unfortunately, we lost Nanna nearly two years ago, after being diagnosed with cancer….

You know that saying about Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheese? About how nothing quite beats its neon-orange powdered cheese? Yeah… I never subscribed to that thinking. My sister and I didn’t have mac and cheese that often, but when we did have it, Mum would make it beautifully. We did, on occasion, have the boxed version,…

Can you believe it? January is over! Some people complained that it seemed to last forever, but for me it flew by. And all the better for it, because it’s almost Chinese New Year which means time off of work, time to decompress, time to purge my flat of anything unnecessary, and of course ……

After a week of eating mostly vegetarian food, I ate quite a lot of meat over the weekend – mainly thanks to a Saturday night meal with friends at a restaurant dedicated to meat. Having said that, I didn’t really miss meat at all – it’s another conversation entirely if we discuss not having chocolate….

In keeping with my plan to reduce my meat in take, I decided to try making a tofu Pad Thai. Let me state, first off, that I have never been a fan of tofu. The only time I ever liked it was when I had it in a Sichuan chili dish that was so spicy,…

When I told my mum I was going to poach salmon in my slow cooker, she didn’t seem too keen on the idea. Mainly because Mum and I have the same idea that salmon should be cooked to a medium temperature, and not all the way through. However, I loved the flavours that were part…

As soon as I ordered my slow cooker (thanks to expiring Asia Miles), I started looking at recipes that I could make. Immediately, pulled pork came to mind. I’ve made pulled pork once before, a long time ago – using a normal oven at a low temperature for 10 hours. It was painful.   I…