Pea, Mint & Feta Salad
This colourful little number practically hums early summer vibes — crisp, fresh, and a bit too pleased with itself.
We all deserve to eat tasty food
While I’m not a professional chef, it’s fair to say in my 25-plus years in food and hospitality, I’ve learnt a few things along the way and I have two big takeaways – recipes are ideas, not a set of instructions and we all deserve to eat tasty food.
Meet the Free Ranging Foodie
Mandy Kennedy is the Free Ranging Foodie. She’s been a barista, bartender, cheesemonger, caterer, gin slinger, regularly cooked paella for 100 people and is a life-long hospo queen.
These days, you can hear Mandy on 774 ABC Radio as the Sunday Mornings ‘Free-Ranging Foodie’, spot her at Queen Victoria Market guiding tours, or read her work with City Larder, Harper and Blohm Cheese Shop, One Hour Our, Broadsheet, Festival 21 and more.
Recipes
You enjoy cooking – mostly – and take care about where you source your ingredients. You’re just as likely to buy artisan cheese at a farmer’s market as you are to pop into the local supermarket ‘cause it’s on the way home but now and then you lose their mojo.
You need inspiration for how to cobble together a meal from what’s in the pantry and, just occasionally, you fancy being one of those meal prep people. You want to be reassured by achievable, results-driven recipes and also be inspired to sometimes stretch your comfort zone a little further.
Welcome to the recipe section!
Fregola Summer Salad
If this was just called pasta salad, I know I’d have lost most of you already. Meet fregola — a…
Savoury Cheese Custard for all Seasons
If a sauce can be ‘quiet luxury’, this is definitely it. Kept low and slow on the hob, cream, egg…
Listen to the Free Ranging Foodie on ABC Radio 774
I enjoy a recurring guest spot on ABC Radio 774 Melbourne on Sunday mornings with Lisa Leong talking about all things food.
Topics free-range all over the place. We’ve covered everything from Gravestone Recipes to What Makes a Great Sandwich as well as Christmas in July and shared our Best Kitchen Tips.
Topics free-range all over the place. We cover everything from Gravestone Recipes to What Makes a Great Sandwich as well as Christmas in July and Best Kitchen Tips.
Blog
Here be monsters!
Here you will read thoughts on life, the universe and everything in between though mostly about food and travel.
The Spoon Test: Learning to Trust Your Palate
If I had to name one habit that makes the biggest difference in how I cook, it wouldn’t be knife…
From Peas to Philosophy: The Art of the Tweak
There’s a school of thought that treats recipes as sacred texts — immutable, untouchable, to be followed exactly lest your…
Katsu, Curry, and Omurice: The Case for Fusion
Somewhere along the way, fusion became a bad word. It used to mean excitement, creativity on a plate, and borders…