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Vanilla and Cardamom Rice Pudding

By Peter G • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Recipes

Rice puddings infused with vanilla, cardamom and topped with mango

Its time again for the Royal Foodie Joust. I’ve been participating in these for the last few months and I thoroughly enjoy them. You can read all about the joust here. The winner of last month’s Joust, Michelle chose her three ingredients for [...]



Hot Chocolate…You Sexy Thing

By Peter G • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: Recipes

Decadent…triple hot chocolate with cream
When Elly decided to hold a blogging event associated with music I knew she was on a winner. Music along with food are life’s essentials. I often have something playing in the background as I cook and photograph my creations. I was stumped initially about what I was [...]



Rosewater Panacotta

By Peter G • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Recipes

Dessert for two
Its that time of the year again. Its approaching Valentines Day. You know you want to impress your loved one. Instead of going out for dinner and paying the over exorbitant prices they charge for that one day of the year, stay at home and cook something sensual. Before [...]



Sponge Cake

By Peter G • Feb 6th, 2008 • Category: Recipes

The ingredients…the batter…the finished sponge

Just before I start this post let me say a big thank you to all the readers who have joined me here recently. I appreciate all your comments and I sincerely thank you all. I was having trouble leaving replies due to an issue with the commenting system. [...]



Cherry Season

By Peter G • Dec 27th, 2007 • Category: Recipes

Cherries are abundant this time of the year
Hope everyone had a few busy days. I did. I had problems with my blog and couldn’t get out my Xmas wishes to everyone. That’s modern technology for ya. Anyway, it’s all been sorted out and I can write about one of my favourite [...]



Poached Pears

By Peter G • May 5th, 2007 • Category: Recipes

Now here’s a dish that conjures up memories of my high school Home Economics class. They were the days when we learnt to make things like “vegetable Soup” and I would wonder “how come there’s no olive oil in this dish?”. I remember learning this dish in class and thinking it was quite [...]



Ice Ice Baby

By Peter G • Mar 17th, 2007 • Category: Recipes

When I last hosted Biteclub, I ended the evening with this wonderful dessert. I was too fussed to go about making sexy desserts for 13 people, so I settled on this little beauty. Its a perfect ending to a sweltering, sultry, Sydney evening. Lemonade and passionfruit icy poles. Or ice blocks to [...]