Category Archives: Eating out
Gnocching on the door of sauce heaven
This recipe was inspired by a dish we enjoyed in the stylish café at Jones Winery in the famous Rutherglen region of Victoria. Soon after we returned home, we took some ideas for a wine sauce from Beverley Sutherland-Smith and developed them … Continue reading
Next morning, a visit to Geelong
The morning after our wonderful dinner at Il Bacaro, we departed from our hotel just after 9am. We had opted out of paying for breakfast – we had a better offer. After I had plotted a slightly tricky exit from … Continue reading
24 hours as tourists in our home city
Anyone who has followed this blog will know that, as well as visiting other countries, Maggie and I like to explore various corners of Australia. The most recent, and shortest, of these adventures was to spend an afternoon, evening, night … Continue reading
Healing journey for a heavy heart
(This post begins with some sad stories but eventually opens out into some pleasant travel and food experiences.) In a short post late last month, I said that I would be having a quiet period, blog-wise, due to a task … Continue reading
Beaune-inspired-and-infused chicken dinner
This is the second-to-last of the many dishes that we enjoyed during our travels in Europe earlier this year and have since added to our repertoire. (Tafelspitz will be the last but that is a project for winter 2015.) We … Continue reading
Busy-ness but not as usual
Out for dinner, three times in nine evenings. Working for a political party for the first time in 25 years. No new recipes to share. Definitely not the usual program! Not that we’ve suddenly come into some money and commenced a tour … Continue reading
NE Victoria: food & wine
A leading commentator on televised matches of Australian Rules football is renowned for his quick-witted quips and puns as much as for his football knowledge. Possibly the best known of the terms he has coined is “centimetre-perfect”, which is used … Continue reading
Out of town, out to lunch
Maggie’s birthday is 7 September. So, every now and then, it falls on the first Sunday in September, which is celebrated as Fathers’ Day in several nations, including Australia, the United States and Great Britain. For personal reasons, Maggie wanted … Continue reading
A dish to crow about?
This could be a long, slow-cooked post but that’s only fitting. After all, it took Maggie and I three days to turn a rooster into a meal of my favourite poultry casserole – Coq au vin! First, some personal, historical … Continue reading
Travel-infused beef braises
While Maggie and I were travelling in Europe earlier this year, I ate four traditional dishes of braised beef: boeuf bourguignon (French), beef goulash (Hungarian), svickova omacka (Czech) and tafelspitz (Austrian). Since returning to our own kitchen, we have cooked three … Continue reading
Rick and Maggie's food and travel adventures 