Category Archive: Food

the weekend my mother came to stay

my weekend was…… swimming in a thunderstorm eating prawns shopping the most amazing meal made with heritage vegetables and herbs from heronswood strolling through gardens and gothic revival architecture worrying about floods train… Continue reading

an adventure in good intentions and sugar burning

The moment I walked into the kitchen this morning I was immediately hit with the smell of bananas going off faster than I can eat them. I wrestled with the idea of making… Continue reading

P.S thankyou

I forgot to the send out a big thankyou to Daily Imprint and wholistic Harvest for the beautiful calendar I won in their Wednesday giveaway before Christmas.   Thankyou!  It’s beautiful pages grace our… Continue reading

it’s oh so quiet

Okay, I’ll admit it- I do seem to have fallen off the blogging wagon.  I started strong and then slowly but surely let life get between the fledgling relationship my blog and I… Continue reading

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton

I can’t take credit for these scones.  P actually made them, and while scones aren’t usually something I enjoy all that much, I have to bow down to P’s scone making abilities- because… Continue reading

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Albert Einstein

Having been too busy to even post anything here for the last week or so, I obviously haven’t had time to do all the things I yearn to do… So, while I am… Continue reading

I have something to tell you…

I haven’t been doing a whole lot of drawing lately, as I’m mentioned in my other posts.  I did try yesterday and became increasingly frustrated with the picture I’m trying to draw.  For… Continue reading

“Ron’s wreck of a mother used to give us buttered bread with hundreds and thousands on it. It was like being handed a slice of powdered rainbow.” (Clive Thomas 1980)

Sometimes I find that I go through creative phases. One week I will be inspired to draw in spontaneous fits and then have to sit back and catch my breath when I’m all… Continue reading

daring baker likes equations…a lot.

My sister is one smart cookie, don’t you think? She baked this… and researched, experimented and wrote this… For the full post about her incredible looking chocolate pavlova with chocolate mascarpone cheese (which… Continue reading

I wish Ming would make me a cupcake

Oh lordy- it is possible that this website just caused me to fall rapturously in love and go into cardiac arrest all at once. Have you seen this? Ming makes cupcakes.   Apparently Ming… Continue reading