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Breastfeeding Snacks and Post Baby Eating

Confession: attempting to feed another human being off my own flesh has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.  Granted, let’s not play the tiny violins too loudly. A sense of perspective is important.  Will and I had a great birth. The first day we came home from hospital I made French toast […]

The New Book – Cut the Carbs!

It really happened. It seems like a bit of a blur, but yet, there it is, in living colour. (And soon, if you fancy, it can be yours too). The book has a cover. It’s on Amazon. And Book Depository. And it has a release date July 3 (though you can pre order it from […]

Brussels Sprout Gratin – American Hustle

The Film:   The Dish:   The Reason: There’s more to link a hustle with a brussel (sprout) than the tweeness of a rhyme. This gratin is  as 70’s as the perm of Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) and the velvet suits of Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale).  Like them this dish understands the importance of gaining […]

Inside the Book Shoot

It’s easy to have visions of how a book shoot is going to go. They usually involve delicious food being calmly prepared, quickly shot in natural light on artisan platters- and then it closes when everybody sits down in a spirit of camaraderie and eats a banquet lunch together. There was so much that was […]

Top 10 Things I Ate This Year- part two

On the eve of my 32nd birthday, I’m looking back at what has been a pretty spectacular year. I’ll be spending tomorrow flitting between feeding my now nearly 13 week old son (where in the heck did those months go?) and pitching in on the third day of the photo shoot for my new book. […]