Roving Lemon's Big Adventure

Apologies for my unexplained absence - we disappeared to Jervis Bay for our annual beach holiday, and this year I did not take my computer...

When we lived in England, we got into the habit of inviting people over for Sunday lunch. It’s a time-honored and universal tradition...

As a parent of a school-age child, I seem to spend a fair amount of time dodging activities that cut into the dinner hour. I consider fami...

Cooking chocolate from Germany - food souvenirs are the best kind How can it be the beginning of June already? Here’s the roundup o...

One of the perks of living in the British Commonwealth is that the day after Christmas - Boxing Day - is a holiday in its own right, and t...

Not being a huge mayonnaise fan (although the homemade version is a much more convincing argument for its merits than the storebought kin...

We have returned to something like a semblance of normality around here, following last week’s invasion of the earth movers. This was the re...

Two years ago, I was just back to Canberra from my organization's annual meeting in Singapore, enjoying burgeoning spring weather, and...

Like sands through the hourglass, so goes another month, leaving only the last crumbs behind. And, like yesterday’s Royal Wedding tea party,...

Aka look: more eggs! Because apparently that’s what I like to eat when the weather shows signs of spring. Although hard-boiled eggs are n...

I’m not really being as ascetic as it might appear here, what with the last recipe being for vegetable soup, and now this. I was originally ...

I never ate egg salad when I was growing up. Not even once. No one ever offered me any, and I’m sure if they had, I would have declined with...

I haven’t cooked dinner for seven days. I can’t remember the last time that happened. We’re visiting in Boston for a week, and our prioritie...

If you’ve been following along here the last couple of months, you’ve probably gathered that we’ve been trying to buy a house. One house i...

Still struggling to find the time and the ingredients to tackle anything major for The Cookbook Challenge ; sadly, 30-Minute Meals doesn...

Canberra has gone from being freezing cold to summer-hot more or less overnight. So I'm thinking about salads again, particularly one th...

A month ago I had rarely given beef salad a second thought. Now I seem to be obsessed with it. It started with lunch at Gus's , a Canber...

I continued my asparagus-buying binge through last week, and by Friday I had four bunches sitting in the fridge. We had an invitation for Su...

Ever since I read a post on Under the High Chair that mentioned using a brick to make panini, I’ve been longing for a kitchen brick of my v...

After I made the lunch pictured here for the second time in four days, I thought I should come clean and admit it: this combination was pret...