After visiting Maureen, Liz and Rebecca, we’ve had to leave the East Coast of Australia and head to the USA. We’ve landed but I just don’t know where. We’re visiting John from Kitchen Riffs and I know he used to work and live in Manhattan and I know he’s now semi-retired and has left New […]
Archives for October 2014
Bundy and Coke Braised Beef Ribs
October 13, 2014 By 29 Comments
We’ve been in Queensland visiting Maureen on the Sunshine Coast and Liz on the Gold Coast but now we’re down in the Australian Capital Territory where we have our capital city, Canberra. For many reasons a lot of people in Sydney like to think Sydney is the capital, especially as some of our Prime Ministers […]
Melting Moments with Passionfruit Cream
October 12, 2014 By 35 Comments
Moving down from the Sunshine Coast where we tried Maureen’s Asparagus and Potato Tart, is the second stop on our 10-part journey. It’s the Gold Coast which is about a three-hour drive south of the Sunshine Coast and where we find Liz, from Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard. Liz is a fairly new blogger and one of […]
Asparagus and Potato Tart
October 10, 2014 By 41 Comments
Over here at Hotly Spiced Headquarters, we’re starting a 10-day series on covering recipes from blogs that have inspired, intrigued and impressed me. Some of these recipes have also either brought a nostalgic touch or thrown me an incredible challenge. I have seen all of these recipes on blogs I subscribe to and at the […]
Coriander Corn Fritters
October 8, 2014 By 31 Comments
After the dinner where we enjoyed the roasted spatchcocks we woke to another opportunity to cook in the kitchen. When you’re in the country and even if you’re not heading into the fields for 12 hours of digging holes and herding cattle and repairing fences and feeding pigs, you still should enjoy a cooked breakfast. […]
Robertson Pie Shop
October 7, 2014 By 29 Comments
Still in Robertson, the one thing we were told to do while there is visit their famous pie shop. At first we thought it must have pulled up stumps and headed out of town as when we drove through the main street we didn’t see anything that looked like a pie shop. But then a […]
Robertson, NSW
October 6, 2014 By 31 Comments
When we’re down on the farm in the Southern Highlands, we always like to do a bit of exploring. One town we hadn’t visited was Robertson. Known as the ‘Green Heart of the Highlands’, I’ve been wanting to visit Robertson ever since finding out that it was the location for the film, Babe. From Mittagong, it […]
Reef Beach, Sydney
October 5, 2014 By 26 Comments
One of the best things about spending time at Oakvale is that on the neighbouring property lives two boys, both around the same age as our little guy. Alfie spends every daylight hour with them and it’s all old-fashioned fun which means being outdoors and doing things like riding dirt bikes, playing with the hose, […]
Stuffed Spatchcocks Roasted in Verjuice
October 4, 2014 By 22 Comments
We’ve just enjoyed a lovely few days down at the farm in Mittagong. And we nearly didn’t get there. That’s because on the day we were due to drive to the Southern Highlands, Carl had to go to the office for the morning while I stayed at home to do the packing. While he was […]
In My Kitchen, October 2014
October 1, 2014 By 47 Comments
October already! In my kitchen I have quite a few new cookbooks. The first was given to me by a friend who has a son at the Shore school, a private school for boys. The School released a cookbook to commemorate 125 years of the school. It’s a stunning hard-back cookbook that’s been incredibly beautifully […]
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