Flourless (nut free) Pomegranate and Coconut Brownies

There are brownie days. Days when a meek muffin leaden with flax just won’t cut it.

Last week we had quite a few of them. There must have been a glitch in the universe, because somehow, David Bowie, circa 1986 as the Goblin King came and stole my child. He replaced him with a screeching, head thumping, small bowls of blueberry bircher muesli hurling, Mummy-slapping, Mummy BITING, nap refusing banshee. The only thing that really pleased this tiny tyrant was raising a quarter sized Yankees bat (courtesy of The Hungry One’s sojurn to New York) aloft and slamming it down on the floor. You know you haven’t had enough sleep when …

Chickpea Flour Foccacia (and my favourite place in Sydney)

I want to tell you about my favourite place in Sydney. It’s possibly my favourite place in the world.

The shortlist is quite long (Cliff bars of Dubrovnik, Yountville in the Napa Valley, Avoca Beach, Ammoudi in Santorini and Wailea in Maui all make cameos). But Freshwater Beach, or more specifically, Pilu at Freshwater, is my kind of bliss.

That’s where we went to celebrate our seven year wedding anniversary on Sunday.

(Still blows my mind that this was seven years ago. For a walk down memory lane and to see me recreate our wedding feast for our four year anniversary, go here.)

Last year we spent our anniversary anxiously milling about our old …

Earl Grey and Vanilla Flourless Blondies

It’s easy to exist in a bubble. Particularly when the sky is blue, the ocean beckons and your head is giddy because your best friend just gave birth to twin boys.

When you spend a good smattering of your life tending to the whims of shin-high folk, the outside world can get smaller. Not because you want it to, because your mental horizon can only stretch so far.  A day is driven by the dual essentials of toddler distraction and adult errands. Sometimes it’s about vaccinations, parks, playgrounds. Occasionally aquariums or farmer’s markets. But mainly, it’s about cleaning gunk off a floor and standing on the side of a set of …