23 January 2012
Words by Rachel Pitts
Photos by Leah Holscher
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:
Monday – the story of the Hungry Girls
Tuesday – Cherry tomato, herb and chilli fish (Volume 1)
Wednesday – Chinese peanut and celery salad
Thursday – Quick Spanish dinner (Volume 2)
Friday – Yoghurt and white chocolate pannacotta (Volume 3)
The Wednesday recipe was a new one, so we include the blog here as well. Read the rest of this entry »
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15 December 2011
Words by Rachel Pitts
Photos by Toby Flaye
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 Victoria Market. Read the rest of this entry »
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15 November 2011
Words by Rachel Pitts
Photos by Leah Holscher and Katherine Bird
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 the three of us – Katherine Bird, Leah Holscher and Rachel Pitts – were just itching to do it again! It’s been such an exciting project; a real collaboration with each of us bringing our individual skills in food, photography, design and illustration. From the middle of the year we set to work gathering props and organising a series of photo shoots at Hungry Girls’ homes in Melbourne and Warrnambool – on front verandahs, in backyards and on kitchen tables to make the best use of natural light. Read the rest of this entry »
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20 September 2011
Words by Rachel Pitts
Photos by Leah Holscher
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 everywhere she could – Turkey, Portugal, the Ukraine, Africa – taking pictures, pictures, more pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
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20 July 2011
Words and photos by Rachel Pitts
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 to my dad’s place in South-West Victoria, where we have a secret mushroom spot nearby. We found it about five years ago and going back has been a highlight every year since. I jump out of the car and skip around like a schoolkid, way too excited. My husband is the stealth hunter and gets straight to business, finding and cutting the best and most beautiful specimens over the hills. Read the rest of this entry »
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18 June 2011
Words and photos by Rachel Pitts
This year was a first for me – I tasted feijoa. Life is short and I can’t believe I have wasted so much time already! These dusky green globules are just beautiful to cut, with a creamy yellow interior and a swirling flower pattern made up of translucent yellow-green flesh speckled with a few tiny brown seeds. Their exotic smell wafts all over the house – if you’re not a fan, you might describe it as ‘Deep Heat’, but that’s a bit unfair I think … The taste has a definite sarsaparilla twist, but after having a few my daughter and I found them irresistible. Sweet but with an interesting tang, and such a nice change from the pears, oranges and apples of late autumn and winter. We spooned out the flesh one feijoa after another, the table littered with empty shells. Read the rest of this entry »
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2 May 2011
Words and photos by Rachel Pitts
Last weekend was the final hurrah for our old kitchen and bathroom. Now our weatherboard worker’s cottage has been stripped of its lean-to addition and reduced to four very cosy rooms, each one really having to pull its weight. We have a study/kitchen, two bedrooms/storage, and a living room/everything else. We’ll be spending the next few months building a new kitchen, bathroom and larger living space, and I’m aiming to be very calm and graceful and to take our chaos in my stride! (A wry smile from my husband.) Read the rest of this entry »
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16 March 2011
Words and photos by Rachel Pitts
Figs, I’ve noticed, are surprisingly polarising. You offer them to some people and they act like you’re presenting them with a bag of precious gems, loaded with memories of childhood and warm autumn sun and being perched in the middle of their grandfather’s fig tree. And then, there are people who look at you with the deepest suspicion, as if sizing you up to see if you are actually serious. They take a moment, looking at the prospect of eating some kind of poison, then reply an awkward ‘no thanks’ and try to change the subject. Read the rest of this entry »
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8 February 2011
Words and photos by Rachel Pitts
Tonight at dinner our 18-month-old daughter finally decided that beans are pretty good. We didn’t have to cut them up into little pieces and ask her to ‘go quick’, which is a silly game that involves her stuffing as much into her mouth as fast as possible, and sometimes ends with the food dribbling back out (we resort to it only if we’re getting a bit desperate). We also didn’t have to scatter tinned tuna on top like I did the other day at lunch, or sneak bean pieces in on chopsticks hiding behind something else more appealing. Instead she sat there with a half-eaten bean wobbling in her hand as if to say, you know what Mum and Dad, these aren’t bad. ‘Maw’ she said after she’d eaten that one, and I thought, hurray! Read the rest of this entry »
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18 January 2011
Words and photos by Rachel Pitts
I think our suburb must be the apricot capital of Melbourne – there are trees drooping with fruit all around us, not too many birds to steal them, and the owners of most trees don’t seem very interested. It’s perplexing! I’ve taken to doorknocking and last year I found a house with two trees and a lovely Vietnamese family who were happy for us to pick what we wanted, as they eat a few apricots but prefer fruits from Vietnam. They are swimming in apricots – or squelching really, as they are spattered all over their driveway. This year we visited twice and took some eggs from our chickens as a small thank you. Read the rest of this entry »
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