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/2013/05/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/2011/10/haberfield%e2%80%99s-primavera-saturday-22nd-october-2011/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/haberfield%e2%80%99s-primavera-saturday-22nd-october-2011/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:45:31 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2386 Last weekend, having just finished up The $35 Challenge where there was very little in the way of food choice, I was far from paralysed by this paradox. In fact, I was salivating, and not even necessarily at the variety of food offered up by the harbour city, but at the very concept of choice itself. Now. What to eat first? I knew exactly where my first foray back into foodie-ville would take me. A week or so ago, after a tip-off from kindred blogger Inner West Foodie, I got an email from Ashfield council inviting me to its three upcoming festivals: Ashfield’s Tastes of Asia (Friday night), Haberfield’s Primavera (Saturday) and The Summer Hill Grand Food Bazaar (Sunday), all part of the Crave Sydney Food Festival. Friday I was still on The $35 Challenge and Sunday the inner-west trains weren’t running so I knew I’d be at Haberfield come Saturday. It was to be my only Crave Sydney Food Festival event, and one I’m glad I didn’t miss. Haberfield isn’t a suburb I’ve spent much time in, so I welcomed the chance for a bit of exploration. And with Ashfield Council promising 100% local stallholders (specifically, no gozlëme) I was hooked. ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/haberfield%e2%80%99s-primavera-saturday-22nd-october-2011/feed/ 10 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/a-beautiful-disaster-raspberry-upside-down-panettone-trifle/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/a-beautiful-disaster-raspberry-upside-down-panettone-trifle/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 20:15:03 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1627 ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/05/a-beautiful-disaster-raspberry-upside-down-panettone-trifle/feed/ 6 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/laus-pantry-pasta/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/laus-pantry-pasta/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:13:07 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1168 Smitten Kitchen and The Stone Soup, and also why one of my favourite people to follow on twitter is Pantry sniffer, who tweets entire recipes in 140 characters. When I started Corridor Kitchen, I stressed that my photos wouldn’t be up to scratch, as my camera is a pretty basic point-and-shoot that doesn't tend to focus properly. As a result I took hundreds of pictures of each dish. This, along with needing to photograph food in daylight hours meant I had to cook specifically to blog. In other words, I wasn’t blogging my actual daily eats, or even my once-a-week eats...]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/laus-pantry-pasta/feed/ 13 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/hazelnut-biscotti-two-ways/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/hazelnut-biscotti-two-ways/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:23:39 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1036 The word biscotti comes from the latin for ‘twice baked’ and this is the time consuming part. After mixing up a dough, forming it into two logs and baking them for nearly an hour, the logs are thinly sliced and then each slice needs to be dried out in the oven.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/hazelnut-biscotti-two-ways/feed/ 4