Invitation to The Makeshift Table

Hi. Welcome to The Makeshift Table. This blog explores culinary projects big and small, simple edible treats, and gustatory discoveries in Brisbane, Australia. Why ‘makeshift’? I have received no formal culinary training and improvise just about every recipe, kitchen tool, and ingredient. I am a very informal, and lately, lazy cook. I admit that this blog has been started as a mostly egocentric exercise, founded ostensibly (to myself) on the following reasons:

1. Where I used to concoct dishes on a daily basis; now, I occupy myself with testing existing recipes for baked goods. In a way, having a blog would enforce some form of discipline in the regularity (and continuity) of my creative process.

2. While trying to transition into an accountant in the past two years, I have eradicated habits that I thought were incongruent with the set of traits of An Accountant. I have summarily forgotten how to read, write, and hang out in front of the stove. I am currently in the cusp of my career and wish to resolve this crisis of identity.

3. My superlatively unhealthy relationship with food has forced me into a binge of raw vegetables and junk food. I rarely cook, because I hardly eat properly. In the past months, I have survived on cubes and sticks of raw veg, the benefits of which have been obliterated by an overdose of sweets and instant noodles. I do not remember having a decent meal in ages! I am ashamed and have finally decided to be reconciled with food.

The Makeshift Table is driven by nostalgia and wanderlust. It tries to recapture remembered pleasures or those taken for granted and will be lost if not found again. It travels over disparate flavors and explores the limits of parsimony.

Finally, I have set the table. Come. You are invited to The Makeshift Table.