Humble Crumble

There are few vegetables that form the basic foundation of so many dishes and stocks across such a range of cuisine styles as the innocent onion. It seldom enjoys the limelight but brown, white and red onions form the base flavour in British, European and Australian cuisine.  If the understated onion was playing in the rugby world cup it wouldn’t be a glamorous All Blacks winger or an Irish drop goal ace. The onion would be a Georgian prop forward – in the engine room doing the hard work and making you cry. (more…)

There a few greater English summer time drinks than Pimms No. 1 Cup with fruit and lemonade.  England and summer may seem like a contradiction in terms, especially when compared to the fierce Aussie baking season. However I have fond memories of working in a good old fashioned English country pub back home years ago where we used to serve big jugs of icy Pimms in the beer gardens during the hazy days of summer (which usually ran from July 14^th-July 31^st).   (more…)