That Alfie is involved in so many pursuits I’m being kept on my toes. I need to stay fit, strong and energised. Yesterday I dusted off my gym gear and paid a visit to my ‘charity’. Having dropped Alfie off to early morning band practise (just another thing), I arrived at the time where the […]
3-Ingredient Cranberry Sauce
December 8, 2014 By 37 Comments
Today was my right leg’s turn to be operated on. And yes, I am talking it up. Not exactly an operation as such, just continuing on with the sclerotherapy and ligations I had last week on my left leg. After an ultrasound where my leg was marked-up I went into the operating room. The surgeon […]
Homemade Vegan Bread
November 29, 2014 By 50 Comments
Recently I have been up at Scoop buying everything I need to make my Christmas cakes. And when I say I’ve ‘been up at Scoop’ I mean I’ve made 10 Christmas Cakes and two festive Christmas cakes. Because of my many and frequent visits, I’ve noticed that they’re selling jars filled with a mix of […]
How to Make Your Own Bacon
October 20, 2014 By 36 Comments
It’s Day 9 of our 10-Day Tour and we’re still in Sydney. A few suburbs away from Tania (where we were yesterday) is Lorraine, Australia’s Uber-Blogger from Not Quite Nigella. When I first started blogging I was a little bit lonely because I didn’t yet have any cyber-friends and the only person commenting on (and reading) my […]
Cracker Mania
October 17, 2014 By 27 Comments
Day 7 in our 10-part series and we’ve landed back in Australia and we’re in Sydney. I mentioned in Part 1 of the series that I would be sharing recipes that intimidated me. This is one of them. I’ve seen crackers on other blogs and although I’ve been inspired to take up the challenge, I’ve […]
Crispy Baked Chicken with Tonkatsu Sauce
October 16, 2014 By 25 Comments
After a couple of days of not being exactly sure of where we were, I definitely know where we are now. We’re on the West Coast of the USA and in the beautiful city of San Francisco. (I don’t mean to spoil the illusion but this is a virtual tour – it’s just I’ve had […]
Easy Pickled Watermelon Rind
October 14, 2014 By 31 Comments
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Raw, Vegan Lemon ‘Cheesecake’
June 22, 2014 By 42 Comments
I’m no longer limping. I’ve been to see an osteopath and after telling him my tale of stupidity (air-headed notion of training for less than four weeks for a 10km ‘fun’ run), he looked at me like he was dealing with a slow learner and said, ‘That’s not very wise’. I said, ‘I know that […]
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