Hot Food, Spicy Stories
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 [...]
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 [...]
I think I’ve mentioned, (probably numerous times) that Arabella is onto a new eating regime where basically everything I buy deserves a roll of the eyes. It’s because the boyfriend with no tattoos from the neck up, is health conscious. And in between he and Arabella’s five break-ups and six getting-back-togethers, this new eating regime [...]
For those who follow me on Instagram, you would be aware that in the last few weeks I’ve been making cupcakes and cupcakes and more cupcakes. It’s all because of Archie. His best mate, the one Archie traveled with during his Gap Year was turning 21. Ever-caring Archie rose to the occasion and said, ‘My [...]
Thank you all so very much for welcoming me back so warmly. Your words have been very kind. By popular demand, here is the final chapter in, ‘The Early Days of Boarding School’ quadrilogy. Term II started and Archie threw himself into all the school had to offer. He enrolled in Speech and Drama classes [...]
‘Naenae’ is pronouced ‘Nigh-Nigh’ as in ‘The end is Nigh’ – I hope that helps! When I was at swim squads this morning, pounding my way up and down the black line, (I do like to talk myself up), I was thinking about the swimming lessons I had when I was growing up. You may [...]
After an excruciating wait for a little boy and many, many repeated questions of ‘How many sleeps?’ Alfie finally woke this morning to the day he had been waiting on for so many nights. Yes, it was finally his birthday and being one of the youngest in his Year, he was excited to now be [...]
When I was in high school I had a friend who lived across the back fence and at their house, every Thursday night was ‘Chockie Night’. Chockie Night was where my friend’s father would buy chocolates on his way home from work in the city, then catch the train, walk home from the station then [...]
It hasn’t been a good day in the kitchen here at Hotly Spiced Headquarters. I wasn’t going to make a gingerbread house this year; mostly because the December 25 deadline is hurtling towards me at a frightening pace and in the last few weeks I’ve been incredibly busy and I know from experience that gingerbread [...]
In the lead-up to Christmas when I was a little girl we knew the big day was close when in the evening we would be dressed in our nighties and sitting in the family room doing puzzles or colouring-in when we’d hear the sound of carols coming from a big brass band. We would run [...]
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