Winter well-and-truly struck Melbourne last week.  It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a “proper” winter, cold and drizzly, requiring stew and stodge to keep the inner fires burning.
Last Sunday I wanted a cup of tea and a pikelet or  two.  Warm liquid, a delicious stodge! While I was mixing up a batch, I [...]

“Whattya call this love?” – “Stew”
Feels like Lamb Shank night, and it was. Some lovely (but my aren’t they expensive now!) lamb shanks, two onions, half a bottle of decent cab and water to simmer with a muslin bag including tangerine peel, peppercorns, juniper berries, a cinnamon stick and three bay leaves. After an hour [...]