Sharing
There is something …….. about sharing recipes ! I just love having a gathering of friends or family and we all have to bring a plate, not an empty one either ! For the occasion. . I rack my brain and sift through cook books for days trying to find a winner for the event [...]
The ‘Not So Secret’ recipe
The saying goes that you are what you eat. I reckon there is much more to it that that. Let me tell you my brownie tale. Our kids are all grown but when they were at primary school, the Roma Junior school created a great cookbook. Your know the sort of book that has the [...]
Mina’s Pavlova Roll
2 teaspoons melted butter 2 teaspoons cornflower 6 egg whites 1 ¼ cups caster sugar ¾ teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon white vinegar ½ cup toasted almond slivers 1 tablespoon cinnamon sugar 250 g. desert limes in syrup 1 kiwi fruit 320mls. double thick dollop cream Lightly grease 7”x12” (18cm.x30cm.) dish and then line with [...]
A recipe for surviving high school
Find yourself a handful of good friends Add some headphones Sift in some silence Add a pinch of patience Remember to laugh often Mix in money for the canteen Simmer for 12 years Don’t burn your teachers Thank you for a fun workshop!
Sean Dooley joins Food Tales!
Food Tales is very excited to announce that Sean Dooley, memoirist and comedy writer and author of Cooking With Baz, will be touring West Queensland with Matthew Evans on the Food Tales tour. Food Tales will be partnering with Brisbane Writers Festival – Write Across Queensland program to host two new events in Charleville and [...]
It’s a long way from Cygnet
The following post is taken from Matthew Evans’ SBS blog “Gourmet Farmer” http://www.sbs.com.au/food/blogarticle/123841/Any-minute-now/blog/Gourmet-Farmer. It describes his experience of South West Qld and the people he met there during the Food Tales Tour. It’s a long way from Cygnet (in Australia’s most southernmost shire) to Cunnamulla, Goondiwindi and Roma in Queensland’s west. But that’s where I’ve [...]
Swiss Cheese Fondue
The hills are alive, with the scent of Swiss Cheese Fifty passengers on a coach I had to please. They had travelled from a large continent called “Straya” Must be similar to that Country called Australia! On arrival I greet them with what is known to the locals as “sheep shit schnapps” and it is [...]
YUMMY POACHED CACKLEBERRIES – a farmer's Sunday Breakfast
http://goexback.com/ How to win back your ex The hens are happy. The sky is blue. They had ripe golden grain and left overs too. Old George crows loudly as a brown beauty is laid. What a start to the morning…….. What to do and how to do it! 2 or 3 freshly laid brown cackleberries [...]
Food Tales w/ Matthew Evans in Roma
how to get your ex girlfriend back how can i get back at my ex Matthew’s final Food Tales event was a crisp and clear morning in Roma. After a spot on local radio with Gazza, we arrived bright and early at the Roma Library. The room was warm and the coffee was good; everyone [...]
Sticky Date Pudding
…..the oven is on to warm my toes and to bake this sweet thank you. The sweetness of brown sugar melting as well as my heart.. a time when I am even grateful, even for the dishwater for warming my hands. ….(what I wrote at Food Tales as an intro to this recipe) Pudding 1 [...]
