Happy Mother’s Day! Don’t you just love Mother’s Day? It’s that one day of the year where you get to sleep-in then lie in bed while the kids bring you breakfast in bed and hand over lots of heartfelt gifts while telling you just how amazing and special you are. Don’t you just love it? […]
Archives for May 2013
In My Kitchen – May 2013
May 9, 2013 By 47 Comments
In my kitchen I have some edible dried flowers given to me by Rebecca when we celebrated her birthday at a high tea recently – yes, Rebecca brought gifts to her own party. I have seen a lot of recipes lately using flowers; there’s even a new cookbook out where every recipe has edible flowers […]
Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Hummingbird Cake
May 7, 2013 By 48 Comments
Recently a few bloggers and I organised a get-together for a Sunday afternoon. We were to catch up at the Radisson Blu Hotel in O’Connell Street, Sydney for a high tea. During the organisational process that incredibly involved 94 group emails, it occurred to us that on the day we were to get together, it […]
Slow-Cooked Lamb with Tahini Sauce and Quinoa Salad
May 5, 2013 By 50 Comments
I have a good friend in blogging, Tania, who has a blog, My Kitchen Stories. She’s a professional chef with plenty of years of experience (although that doesn’t mean she’s still not in her youth), and not only does her blog have the most wonderful user-friendly recipes, she usually has a great story to tell […]
Chocolate Marshmallow Slice
May 3, 2013 By 59 Comments
A few weeks ago my blogging friend, Suzanne Perazzini from Strands of My Life released her e-cookbook, Afternoon Tea. What is special about this cookbook is that all the recipes are what I would regard as treats – something sweet to have when you invite the girls around for afternoon tea, something sweet to enjoy […]
The Big Banana
May 1, 2013 By 45 Comments
On the last day of our holiday and before we spent the evening at the Indian Restaurant, we drove to the Big Banana. The reason we went on the last day is because Carl had been hoping that by some rare, very rare miracle, Alfie would forget we’d promised to take him. But when Carl […]
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