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Fun stuff: recipes, cocktails and more

This section contains recipes from all over the world, to increase your appreciation (or tolerance?) of foreign food, as well as interesting cocktails which you can fix yourself to better tolerate the hardships of backpacking - just in case you need an excuse for drinking!

Articles

Main Meal: Lemon and Rosemary Spaghetti

So you want to cook Italian. So you are from (...)

Information: Things About Bartending I Didn’t Know

As I headed to Scotland to work as a bartender,

Drink: Plastered Possum

A nice Australian cocktail that promises to (...)

Drinking Game: "I’ve Never"

"I've Never" It's my favourite, 'I don't (...)

Drink: Mint Julep

Mint Julep The Mint Julep is a yummy drink (...)

Drink: Lani’s Xmas

Being left with random alcoholic ingredients (...)

Drinking game: Goon of Fortune

What you need: Several bladders of Goon (...)

Main Meal: Pizza without the D’OH

Potato Pizza, without the D'OH Love fresh (...)

Treats for Homesick Aussies

Tim Tam Orgasm Ingredients: One packet of (...)

Spaceballs The Drinking Game

To play the Spaceballs Drinking Game you will (...)

Main Meal: Harvest Apple Meat Loaf

This is a delicious twist on the traditional (...)

Dessert: Chocolate Brazilian Balls

BRIGADEIRO Ingredients: 1 can condensed (...)

Dessert: The Kiwi & Australian Pavalova

Pavlova Origins of the Pavlova. Australia or (...)

Main Meal: The Great Kiwi Burger

The Great Kiwi Burger Even thinking about (...)

Dessert or Breakfast: Blueberry Pancakes

Blueberry Pancakes A sure way to win any (...)

Main Meal: Pasta and Vegie Mornay

Pasta and Vegie Mornay I was fed this as a (...)

Salad: Warm Chicken Salad

Warm Chicken Salad For those hot summer (...)

Soups: Creamy Pumpkin Soup

Creamy Pumpkin Soup The extremely versatile (...)

Information: US to UK Cooking Conversions, Temperatures and Measurements

Being a fabulous Ex-pat from the States, I (...)

Information: US to UK Cooking Conversions, Food Names

Being a fabulous Ex-pat from the States, I (...)

Bread: Fair Dinkum Aussie Damper

The traditional Aussie outback bread (...)

Dessert: Dynamite Dan’s Traditional Aussie Christmas fruitcake

Dynamite Dan's Traditional Aussie Christmas (...)

Appetisers: Minted Raita

Minted Raita Can be served with Lebanese (...)

Dessert: A Kiwi Treat - Afghans

Afghans My all time Kiwi childhood favourite (...)

Kiwi Backpackers Tucker

Kiwi Backpackers Tucker If you are a Kiwi (...)

Drink: Car Bomb

Car Bomb In the States, this drink is often (...)

Drink: Mulled Cider

Mulled Cider (*the kind your get at apple (...)

Drink: Flaming Dr. Pepper

Flaming Dr. Pepper Tastes just like Dr. (...)

Drinking Games: beer pong

History: Rumored to have found its humble (...)

Drink: Black Russian cocktail

The cocktail known as Black Russian is both (...)

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