Sydney Farmers Market

Lettuce seedlings for sale at the Sydney Farmers MarketThere is no doubt in my mind that good food is the new black.Goats cheese is the new Gucci; forget Chanel, try chanterelle; and a cluster of rhubarb poking out of your grocery basket is de rigeur baby, celery is like, so ten years ago.So it didn't surprise me that last Thursday's Sydney Farmers Market was so popular. Instead of descending

Pasta Shot, Newtown

Pasta Shot is shiny, bright, tangerine orange cheer. There's a rustic blackboard beckoning at the door with $5 specials...a gleaming new display cabinet servery...and cafe-style wooden chairs with funky artworks adorning the walls...There are salads and pastas in the bain marie...and a chicken and spinach pasta number in addition to the ubiquitous lasagna.Penne with chicken and spinach $7.50, and

EoMEoTE #11: Smoked Trout Salad with Soft-Set Egg

In accordance with this month's theme of 70s lyrics...Can you see the trout Fernando?I remember long ago when trout was smoked as well as thisThere was salad too FernandoAn orb of warming yolk just like a gently rising sunI can see the toast now bareBut soon to bathe in sticky egg of fun.I used the smoked trout I picked up from last week's Pyrmont Growers' Market. The flesh was firm, perfectly

Pyrmont Growers' Market

Pink Lady applesFirst Saturday of the month = Pyrmont Growers Market.The combination of Good Food Month endorsement, as well as the start of a sun-kissed long weekend, saw unprecedented crowds flock to the Markets this month. I've never seen it so busy before!Joanna Savill was on stage chatting to various vendors but we headed straight for the stalls instead.Had to stock up on my monthly

High Tea at the Swissotel, Sydney

High tea smorgasboard at the Swissotel, SydneyWhich girl doesn't get excited at the mere mention of the words, "high tea". It's not the thought of wearing big flowery hats, white gloves and tittering over neighbourhood gossip that gets the pulse racing. It's the mere thought of deciminalised dessert decadence that has every girl nodding excitedly as she clears the diary with unabated

The Reveal

Yes, Grab Your Fork has had a little makeover.After 16 months of blogging 320 posts, a new hair-do and wardrobe has long been overdue.I hope you like the latest tszuj. Far from being a confident website designer, the experience has certainly involved a steep learning curve (and more than a bit of hair-pulling)!Of course appearances are only skin-deep and I hope the content has always been what

Oaty Date Slice

The other week, Kelly was bemoaning an excess of porridge oats at the conclusion of winter. Anzac biscuits immediately come to mind, but then so does this recipe for Oaty Date Slice.

It's quick, it's dead-easy and it's terribly addictive.

The source? Try my Yr 7 home economics textbook. Sure it's full of hokey recipes for fruit skewers and celery boats, but the oaty date recipe is definitely a