Yesterday our kitchen was transformed. When I asked if a very talented friend might help film a recipe from the low/slow carb ebook I’m not quite sure what I was expecting. Perhaps a steady hand to hold a camera. Someone to do a close up or two of the pot while I was stirring. I […]
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Antidotes to inexplicable grumpiness: Inexplicable grumpiness def: a slight emotional fizzing and hissing; when things just grate. Often the sky seems tilted and objects in your path take on a pale orange sheen of reflected fury. Exacerbated by the sound of sniffing, garbage trucks and the smell of salt cod from the neighbours. It may […]
When I was no taller than a fire hydrant, I wrote a list of ‘things I’ll like when I’m a grown up’. It was written in a pink diary in the same rotund penmanship that scrawled a letter to ‘Young Talent Time’, offering my services if Dannii Minogue had a cold. It housed things that […]
This is a cake inspired by tree changes. Tree Change; def: a colloquial term that refers to citified folks making a change, to live somewhere greener, quieter, usually surrounded by trees. There are tree changes afoot in my Australian clan. I’ve just spent the last few days down in Berry; a spectacularly beautiful part of […]
It would be tempting to revert to same old, same old. Cue: Birthday card. Dinner out. Cake. *Hurrah* Each year The Hungry One requests the same thing for his birthday. “Just…. maybe, some black forest cake?” Except there’s only so many ways we can make that cookie crumble. We’ve had this layered construction of cherry […]