Welsh Rarebit French Toast

11:23 AM, September 4, 2013 |
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There are portholes in life when you’re adrift; not knowing if you’re coming or going. This is a dish for those moments. It’s for those murky duvets of time when you only know for sure if it’s 3 am or pm by going outside and squinting at the sky.  This is the sort of food you should make when the fridge is bare, bar eggs and milk collected from a convenience store.

I used to know that feeling care of jet lag, when the lounge room was scattered with suitcases, yawning open and the only sound in the flat was the rattle and hum of the first load of washing.

Now I …

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Raspberry, Coconut and Dark Chocolate Scones

09:14 AM, August 30, 2013 |
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There’s no point crying over spilled milk.

I hazard that whoever coined that phrase has never knocked over a bottle of breast milk that it took fifty five, pinching minutes to harvest. Or spent a good five minutes contemplating  if there are ways to salvage any of it (the answer it seems is no).

There is also very little that is glamorous about the sheer survivalism of trying to feed another human being off your own body.

(Once again, this is a little about life with a wee one. If you’re just after a recipe and some of its merits, please feel free to skip until you see an asterix at the bottom …

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Things That Are Good for Morale

09:18 AM, August 27, 2013 |
Things That Are Good for Morale

Morale is important. This is something I instinctively know. It’s also been droned into us by one of the simplistic bibles on high rotation in this flat at the moment. It may be cheesey, it may be a little simplistic, but at 3.42 am when you or your spouse need to double check on burping techniques, ‘Commando Dad‘ gets to the nubbin of the message pretty swiftly. There’s not a lot of waffle about feelings in this parenting book; more  basic survival. But what it does manage to point out is that morale for all is important.

I’ve got some lovely messages after what I wrote in the grim pits of …

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