Recipes - if you like them, try my (other) favourite site:
http://www.epicurious.comAlso feel free to come and cook for me, because I never have time.
As for Australia Day, apparently it celebrates Australia. The date changed at some point, for some reason. My historically challenged lesser half doesn't know why. I have a vague feeling it may have been to do with not being the date that Captain Cook arrived because that upset the Aborigines.
The best Australia Day story I heard came from Tasmania, where they were holding the World Sheepdog Trials. The radio interviewer asked how many countries' dogs were competing, to be told (sheepishly!
) that when they set the event up they had failed to check into quarantine and cost of transport for dogs. Apparently, even to bring a dog from NZ cost about A$1500 (~US$700), which put most competitors out of the market. So the World Champion Sheepdog will be Australian.
Or maybe they did check and just thought this was appropriate for an Australia Day event?
