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Annual mushroom soup
I thought we’d well and truly missed mushroom season this year. For pine mushrooms it’s autumn, and now it’s July and we’ve only just managed to rustle ourselves out the door and in the car and down...
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Leah’s European pictures
The Hungry Girls’ photographer, Leah Holscher, recently snuck back into the country after three years of life in Europe. There she based herself in England and The Netherlands and travelled just about...
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Volume 3 is coming!
The Hungry Girls’ Cookbook Volume 3 has been sent to the printer, and we can’t wait to unveil it to you all at the end of this month. More than three years have passed since we released Volume 2, and...
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Launch of Volume 3
On the 7th December 2011, we officially launched The Hungry Girls’ Cookbook Volume 3! The venue was a shop called Melbournalia Home, located in a gorgeous old warehouse down a laneway near the Queen...
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Chinese peanut and celery salad
The Hungry Girls had a guest blog on The Design Files last week. We included a recipe from each of our books with a story, photographs by Leah, and illustrations by Katherine. Follow these links:...
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Baby plum friands
There’s a plum tree in our backyard, down on the fence next to the chicken coop. It’s a scraggly thing – nondescript with lots of thin branches and small leaves sticking up chaotically into the air....
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Sweet potato, green bean and smoked paprika salad
In April the Hungry Girls were invited to do a guest blog for Design Sponge, and we settled on this favourite salad. It’s a jumble of soft-roasted chunks of sweet potato and potato, caramelised onion,...
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Eggplant, tomato and basil pasta
The vegie garden is looking decidedly bare and wintery now that I’ve finally pulled out the tomato bushes and collected the very last ripening tomatoes. It’s the end of a process of watching the...
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Sticky pork ribs
Ten weeks ago I had my second baby. The days are flashing by so fast; the only thing that seems to differentiate one week from the next is that we notice our boy has grown a little bit bigger. During...
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New season’s garlic
When we harvested our patch of garlic at the end of November, memories came rushing back. In early June in the same patch of earth, we dug up what felt like a million jerusalem artichokes. Our eyes...
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Chocolate walnut biscuits
It’s been an interesting week this week. Is it that I’ve had less appointments and urgent things to do, or are things getting slightly easier at home? Some telling things have happened. While my...
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Tomato sambal
The last month of autumn might seem the wrong month for thinking about tomatoes. Happy days of tomato-and-chive sandwiches with different-coloured cherry tomatoes from our garden (and importantly...
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Stuffed flatbreads
Sometimes life goes so fast you completely forget to take photographs. Or you feel too giddy with the experience to stop to write anything down. Pulling the back off our house two years ago and...
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Parsnip and orange pudding
One of my most cherished cookbooks is a small beige hardback called German Cooking. I love its browned pages with marks and fingerprints, the lack of photos, and the not very inventive recipe titles...
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Christmas pudding
I adored my nana’s Christmas cake and pudding. A few days before Christmas her cake sat upon our sideboard wrapped in a fancy red tinsel cuff, my brother and I just busting to eat a piece. Her pudding...
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Vietnamese pancakes
My four-year old daughter is learning the sounds that letters make. L – luh – is for ladybird. D – duh – is for dad. V – vuh – is for Vietnamese pancakes! I grinned from ear to ear when she said this....
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Pumpkin and quinoa patties
Fritters and patties are big at home right now. It seems a quirky developmental stage our children go through; a unique thing that happens in our house like bum-shuffle crawling and oh-so-late...
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Smashed cucumber salad
My vegetable garden seems to have a mind of its own. This summer it decided that tomatoes and basil would not be the frontrunners. Instead it’s been the cucumbers and spring onions, and just when I...
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Easy lime (or lemon) ice-cream
Lime season should be summer, you’d think. Then the weather feels perfect for lime-spiked drinks on ice and Asian salads, but it’s not until a few months later that limes really come into their own....
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Chilaquiles
Working on an introduction to a Mexican cookbook a few months ago has sent me off on a new cooking adventure. The world of Mexican food is big and there’s a lot to cover, and the cookbooks I now have...
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