http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/the-christmas-recipe-swap-december-6-2013/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/the-christmas-recipe-swap-december-6-2013/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:42:00 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/calanderise-it-christmas-recipe-swap-december-6/ In a couple of weeks, I’ll be hosting a pre-Christmas recipe swap at the Glebe Library with the City of Sydney. We want people to bring in their Christmas recipes; the ones they love, the ones they hate, the ones they just made up yesterday. You can even bring samples to share, and we’ll eat and talk cooking and eating and Christmas.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/11/the-christmas-recipe-swap-december-6-2013/feed/ 4 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/09/grainbrunch/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/09/grainbrunch/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:27:52 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=5884 ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/09/grainbrunch/feed/ 4 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/05/eggplant-parma/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/05/eggplant-parma/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 02:06:04 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=5404 In case you were wondering, I have decidedly unexotic and Catholic heritage- generic Irish/English stock on my Dad’s side and on my Mum’s side, half Northern Italian and half more of the same. I am, as they say, an anglo mongrel, and the food I grew up on reflects that fact. I am sometimes accused, mostly jokingly but with a dash of truth thrown in, of growing up ‘without culture’ by my partner, his heritage being a mix of Portuguese and Iraqi Jew now considered exotic. In a way, I think as Australians we shortchange ourselves when we say we have ‘no culture’. We have every culture, that’s the point, and we can serve it all up on a plate and pretend for five minutes that we are all friends. It solves nothing, but it feeds everyone. And there are things that I think all of us who love food understand. Many of the conversations we had growing up centred on food. What did you have for lunch, what should we have for dinner, have you eaten? These are universal questions for perpetually hungry and food-obsessed families, whatever the nationality.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/05/eggplant-parma/feed/ 14 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/03/laus-ultimate-corn-fritters/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/03/laus-ultimate-corn-fritters/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:16:56 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=5151 I don’t often go out for breakfast these days, but when I do, I’m a sucker for a fritter and a good poached egg. Recently, I started trying to replicate the flavour and texture of café-style inch-thick, fluffy fritters in my own kitchen, and the results have been pretty amazing. Here are the 4 ‘fritter truths’ I discovered on my journey to corn fritter heaven.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2013/03/laus-ultimate-corn-fritters/feed/ 6 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/09/roasted-cauliflower-shareplate-and-some-big-news/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/09/roasted-cauliflower-shareplate-and-some-big-news/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:25:07 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4331 The Potluck Club as we’ve been compiling and proofing recipes, chasing up submissions and sorting through photos. 24 bloggers have submitted a total of about 35 original recipes and as many photos. A huge thank you to everyone who has submitted their work to help raise money for Foodbank, in conjuction with The $35 Challenge. This October, as part of the the City of Sydney Libraries’ ‘Lunches with bite’ series, I will be presenting a couple of talks on The $35 Challenge - one on Tuesday October 9th at the King's Cross Library and one on Friday 12th of October at Custom’s House Library. The talks are on the week before the challenge, to get you ready-slash-psyched. Both talks are free but places are limited, so if you’re interested, follow the links to register. I’ll also be hosting a recipe swap at the Glebe Library in November. We’re encouraging everyone to bring their favourite home recipes, cookbooks and food blog links - we’re calling it an ‘old-fashioned-meets-social-media recipe swap’. I’m both excited and phenomenally terrified, so come on down. If nothing else, it’ll be good for a laugh. Since its been all about the e-cookbook lately, I thought it a good idea to post an actual recipe. I’ve been eating roasted cauliflower all winter as a side dish, but it also makes a fab ‘share plate’, as the kids say. Serve it with crusty bread and mediterranean dips, or maybe as a side to roast chicken or a comforting casserole.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/09/roasted-cauliflower-shareplate-and-some-big-news/feed/ 9