A few weeks back RJ and I decided we needed a break. A break from household chores and regular haunts and general weekend inertia. For Christmas he had gotten me a weekend away in Bowral and late February was a perfect opportunity to cash it in before the Southern Highlands moved firmly into colder...
Last Thursday after work I made my way down into the city to catch up with a few lovely ladies I met at a Sydney Food Blogger picnic back in January. Social company aside, the March into Merivale Launch Party, which saw 13 food stalls and 4 bars take over the ballroom of The...
Happy Australia Day! Or if you want to sound like a local, Happy ‘Stralia Day Maate. You should probably go make Lamingtons or Pavlova or eat a meat pie to celebrate. We however had Pumpkin Pie Pancakes for brunch and watched out the window as it rained, then pretended to clear up, then rained,...
It’s only the 3rd of January and there are Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns in the grocery stores already. Easter Eggs. Can we not even get through Valentine’s Day first? Come on now, let us breathe! So, as an army of one with seven tonnes of explosives behind me, I’m staging a revolt...
Just a quick peek into our New Years Eve and New Years Day for you… It started with a New Years Eve Day treat from Gelato Messina. A year of being 90% sugar and dairy free needed to end with this amazing stuff. I could work my way through the entire range in one...
There will be pics of a Christmas Eve feast, and a family Christmas Day lunch and of a couple of recipes of course, but for now… a Summer Fruit Christmas Card because nothing says Christmas in Sydney like mangoes and cherries… Christmas wishes from a Santa as old as I am, his reindeer side-kick...
bou·tique / bu ‘tik / boo-teek / noun 1. a: a small fashionable shop | b: any small, exclusive producer 2. a small business that offers highly specialized services or products 3: a small business, department, etc., specializing in one aspect of a larger industry I’ve always been a sucker for a good boutique....
Eat.Drink.Blog.Eat.Drink.Blog.Eat.Drink.Blog. True, it’s what I do for some portion of pretty much every day, but this weekend I had the honour of getting together for a full day of food blog immersion with a group of like minded people from across Australia. People who are more prone to snapping shots of cake before tasting...
Before we left on our little adventure there was, amongst other things, a small matter of what on earth to wear to Blogher ’11. There were parties to attend after all, and I needed sparkly items … and I’m sure there were a multitude of other reasons I made up at the time to...
Crave is a month long food festival in Sydney with literally hundred of events and participating restaurants and, well, food. This year we haven’t taken nearly enough advantage of it – although I did do a fair amount of drooling over the Tweets and pictures of other food bloggers at the launch parties and...
