Chapter 8
While Pippa and Adam played in the river, I decided cook something more elaborate than hotdogs and hamburgers. Cooking while Adam was home was purely voluntary, but this was the first time I'd ever had time to cook. With the refrigerator overflowing with strange vegetables I'd never heard of courtesy of Linda Hastings, perhaps it was time to experiment with the unknown?
Whatever I did, it couldn't possibly taste worse than Adam's pikelets!
I pulled some strange, fernlike vegetables out of the refrigerator that looked like something halfway between dill and an enormous, mutant celery plant. I knew it was called fennel, but beyond that, I didn't have a clue. I pulled out the illustrated Australian Cookery of Today.
"What the heck am I supposed to do with this thing?"
Adam's gr
