nic cooks

Later this year I will celebrate six years of living in Australia and while there are many foods I miss from the Motherland, there are an equal number of foods that I have embraced in my new homeland. Surprisingly enough, Tim Tams are one of these foods. When people come to visit they are always [...]

What a great way to end the week. Last Friday I arrived home from work to find a box of goodies on my doorstep. Not the average package the postie delivers (and he certainly doesn’t climb our steep driveway to deliver anything to the door) but a gourmet package from Essential Cuisine.  This gorgeous box [...]

Never mind your cup of tea, what’s my cup of tea? Nothing! I don’t drink tea, I am the worlds worst English person. Yes you read correctly, I don’t drink tea.  I haven’t had a cup of tea since 1983 when my dear old mum swapped my dinky bottle for a grown up cup. Tea [...]

This is another great beginners cheese as you don’t need any fancy ingredients. Instead of using starter cultures that you have to pre-prepare, it makes the most of cultured products that are readily available at the supermarket – natural yoghurt and cultured butter milk.  Before you buy these products check the list of ingredients to [...]

I’m a bit hooked on home made ice cream now that I have a plentiful supply of eggs.  It always felt a bit extravagant when I had to buy the eggs, so I only made it once a year for Christmas.  But now I make it whenever the eggs in the fridge reach two dozen [...]