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/2014/06/i-quit-sugar-do-i-bollocks/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2014/06/i-quit-sugar-do-i-bollocks/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:16:52 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=6406 Why I reckon the IQS movement is bullshit and fructose probably won’t kill you.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2014/06/i-quit-sugar-do-i-bollocks/feed/ 0 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/06/lemon-meringue-pie/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/06/lemon-meringue-pie/#comments Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:05:30 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3771 I haven’t made this pie since I was a teenager, but I was always a big fan of the combo of tart, sweet lemon butter and fluffy sugarry merignue. I remember dragging out my mother’s 1970’s Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbook from which you could cook anything from scones to Beef Bourginon, falling apart at the spine and gaffer taped together, and making this time consuming but satisfying pie. I assume the recipe I’ve used here is the same one.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/06/lemon-meringue-pie/feed/ 19 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/08/caipirinha-no-abacaxi/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/08/caipirinha-no-abacaxi/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:16:28 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1928 I’m not in any way implying that people in Northern Brasil show up to people’s houses with a pineapple dangling from their chops, far from it (and also, if they did, they’d use cachaça, not rum). But I couldn’t really get my head around not drinking a caipirinha and drinking it out of a pineapple, although touristy and tacky, was my favourite way to do it. This explains why Senhor R and I found ourselves hacking away at a pineapple one Sunday night to make a cup for our rum caipirinha. Sticky.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/08/caipirinha-no-abacaxi/feed/ 4 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/food-fetishes-and-bun-bo-xao/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/food-fetishes-and-bun-bo-xao/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:33:05 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1116 These days, you can’t turn on the TV without the giant head of a celebrity chef glaring back at you. Food is one of the most popular topics on television, with Masterchef, My Kitchen Rules and a raft of ABC and SBS food programming available. It is also one of the top topics for blogs, after technology, fashion, celebrity gossip and...how to make money from blogging. In fact, in 2010, a total of 88 new food blogs were started in Sydney alone (*cough* Corridor Kitchen *cough*). Appearances by Jamie Oliver elicit Beatles-fan-like reactions of screaming and fainting. Nigella Lawson’s recent visit to Australia  had pilgrims flocking to Melbourne from a Master class. Visiting a café is considered an activity in and of itself. There is an entire pay TV channel, Lifestyle food, devoted to food. We are a nation of foodies obsessed.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/food-fetishes-and-bun-bo-xao/feed/ 5 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:51:17 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=1062 Yesterday Lorraine over at Not Quite Nigella described the special treat of being given 20 cents to buy something at the school fete and tossing up between honey joys, pikelets, toffees and other assorted goodies, eventually choosing whichever was the biggest. This reminded me of another nostalgic gastronomic occasion – kids’ parties, where the unfettered appetites of small children are allowed to run wild. When I was a child, my parents would let me and my brothers have a party with our friends every second year, and we’d always get to choose a cake out of the Australian Women’s Weekly Kids’ Birthday Cake Cookbook, which, incidentally is one of The Age’s most influential Australian Cookbooks. The cake, be it a train, a Disney character, a doll or a swimming pool filled with green jelly (this was way back in the olden days before blue jelly was invented) would take centre stage amongst the mini frankfurts, party pies, sausage rolls, butterfly cakes and fairy bread on the table. This was one of my favourites, I think I had it for my 5th birthday.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/03/fairy-bread/feed/ 18