The ever-reliable Chateau Tahbilk Shiraz made a perfect accompaniment to a home-made pork terrine for a beautiful Sunday lunch.
Recipes
Daily Proposition: The meat-eaters guide to tofu
Meat eaters fear tofu. But the almost tasteless prism of healthiness, high in protein and low in salt and cholesterol, can be spiced up with some saucy additions to help satisfy unhealthy urges, says Andrew Duffy.
Daily Proposition: Make brownies, not war
My family has refined this brownie recipe since, many soggy Victorian Easters ago, mum found it in a 1960s American children’s cookbook, explains Crikey intern Laura Griffin.
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The Pentagon’s 26-page brownie recipe
Document MIL-C-44072C, a highly important Pentagon manual has been leaked online. It’s contents? Twenty-six pages on how to make military standard cookies and brownies. They must not exceed 3.5”x2.5”x5/8”. Download the entire recipe here.
Daily Proposition: It’d be un-Australian not to eat them
If there’s one way to celebrate the diggers, it’s with rolled oats and golden syrup and a cuppa after the dawn service. So make your own Anzac bikkies!
Daily Proposition: Make a Yiddish grandmother chicken soup
While observant Jews are selling their beer for the week to mark Passover, why not celebrate your tenuous Jewish credentials (or make some new ones) with a nice pot of Yiddish grandmother chicken soup?
Egg-cellent Easter eats
What else is Easter about if not stuffing your face (and, y’know, Jesus)? Gourmet Traveller’s collection of Easter recipes — including hot cross buns, roast lamb, chocolate eggs, simnel cake and more — look worth rising from the dead for.
How to make Steve Jobs’ head out of cheese
Liven up your next dinner party by serving cheese carved into the shape of Apple founder Steve Jobs’ chiseled cranium. A step-by-step guide, including recipes for Apple Cheese Plate, Spicy Steve Nachos Supreme, and iPad Thai.
Daily Proposition: If today’s giving you lemons … make lemonade
Make the most of the last sunny (or not-so-sunny, if you’re drowning in Melbourne) with these homemade lemonade recipes.
Daily Proposition: Cook up a new signature dish
If you’re stuck in a food rut, why not branch out with something completely new tonight. And no, spag bol shouldn’t be your signature dish past the age of 25 and student housing.
Classic Christmas recipes
Roast turkey with pancetta stuffing, Chrissie pud with muscat custard, honey-glazed ham and other Yuletide noms. Sure, it’s 35 degrees outside, but we can dream.
The great Australian Christmas cake bake-off
Some of the country’s best pastry chefs have battled it out to create the perfect cake for the hot Aussie summer Christmas, with delicious results.
MAP: What are Americans cooking for Thanksgiving?
It’s Thanksgiving in the US, giving Americans a chance to do what they do best: eat. The NYT has mashed-up search data from Allrecipes.com with a map to see what different parts of the country will be cooking.
Video of the Day: Video of the Day: Great Depression Cooking with Clara
Ninety-four-year-old Clara cooks recipes and tells stories from the Great Depression in her online TV show. Today’s recipe: eggplant parmesan.
Food you can make from scratch — but never realised you could
It’s cheaper, healthier and greener: Planet Green rounds up 45 recipes food you probably never realised you could make in your own kitchen, from vanilla extract and baking soda to bacon, ricotta and even fruit roll-ups.
If ABC presenters were cakes
Auntie has released a cookbook of cakes shaped like its kids’ TV show characters — but what about the grown-up programs? asks Mel Campbell. Kerry O’Brien, Margaret and David, Ali Moore and more, imagined as cakes.
The best Bloody Mary on the whole bloody planet?
With a whopping 17 ingredients — including Guinness, pickled okra and beetroot — bon appetit magazine reckons it’s landed upon the greatest Bloody Mary recipe in the world. The Bitten Word lads put it to the test.
VIDEO: If Michelle Obama was a hamburger…
… she’d be a free range turkey burger with caramelized onions, Swiss cheese, ruby red tomatoes, crisp lettuce and garden herb mayo on a freshly baked wheat bun, served with an avocado shake. Introducing the “Michelle Melt”.
101 salads in 5 pages
101 — count ‘em — creative and simple salad recipes by the NYT’s resident foodie, Mark Bittman. Serious food pr0n ahead.
