Food & drink

Wine vs wine – May 2025

This month we review a 2024 Hoddles Creek Chardonnay and a 2020 El Enemigo Cabernet Franc.

A Vietnamese feast at Footscray Park

Festivals for Vietnamese Lunar New Year, known as Tết, offer a variety of traditional dishes that reflect the rich culinary heritage of Vietnam.

Homemade focaccia

Focaccia is the perfect side to soups and salads, a wow factor on your grazing boards, or delicious as a sandwich bread.

Chilli crab spaghetti

Blue swimmer crabs provide an ordeal but the resulting simple sauce is a luxury dish.

Wyndham Women’s recipe of the month

Aliaa Haroun speaks about the importance of the Wyndham Women's Support Group and provides a traditional Egyptian recipe for Khoshari.

Wine vs wine – April 2025

Wines reviewed this month: 2022 Devil’s Lair Cabernet Sauvignon and Fowles ‘The Exception’ Shiraz.

Kababi restaurant review

Hamed Allahyari has had a lot to celebrate recently. Not only has he opened his new Persian grill cafe and take away, but after...

Yummy chicken tray bake!

This recipe is a midweek lifesaver. It ticks all the boxes with protein and veggies and it is a one pan, quick, easy, and...

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