Last week I met up with Tania and Celia for a very long overdue lunch – our first for 2014. Lorraine was meant to join us but unfortunately, due to an unavoidable scheduling crisis, she had to bow out of our get-together. Celia organised the lunch at a restaurant that she has been to several […]
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 […]
Montville, Queensland
June 10, 2014 By 24 Comments
When we were on our mini-break on the Sunshine Coast, the sun didn’t shine. Nevertheless we behaved like proper tourists and went sightseeing. Now Alfie doesn’t like sightseeing and he was in luck because Carl’s brother lives in Montville, a small town in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, with his wife and three children. […]
My Three-Day Juice Fast
May 15, 2014 By 66 Comments
Some time ago I received an email from Schkinny Maninny, an Australian company specialising in nutritional juice cleansers. The email asked if I would like to participate in a 3-day juice detox program. I’m not used to dieting or going without food or skipping meals or depriving myself so I wasn’t sure if I was […]
The Oaks, Neutral Bay
February 26, 2014 By 33 Comments
The Oaks is an iconic pub in Sydney’s Neutral Bay. It opened its doors in 1885 and throughout its 120 year history, it has never failed to be a place that Sydney-siders will frequent time and time again. By a stroke of good fortune, Lorraine had an appointment at The Oaks and asked if, along […]
Nomad, Surry Hills
February 10, 2014 By 36 Comments
Towards the end of last year, Celia, Tania, Lorraine and I wanted to got together to celebrate making it through another year, the joy of the Christmas season with the exchanging of home-made gifts, and the treat of getting together over a meal. We decided to go to Nomad, a newly-opened restaurant in Surry Hills. […]
The 2013 Top Five
January 2, 2014 By 46 Comments
WordPress has very kindly sent me a kind of ‘Year in Review’. It’s a summary of how things went down over at Hotly Spiced Headquarters during 2013. It let me know my five most popular posts. I’ve seen these lists before and every year the list never fails to surprise. I thought I’d share these […]
In My Kitchen, December 2013
December 1, 2013 By 57 Comments
In my kitchen is a broken window. Can you guess who did it? Yes, it was Archie. He’s lost three house keys since March and a few nights ago he came stumbling home in the early hours of the morning and realised (no surprise) that he didn’t have a key. Rather than knock on the […]
Bion Societe, Camperdown
September 2, 2013 By 40 Comments
Last week I met up with Lorraine, Celia and Tania at Bion Societe in Camperdown. The reason for the get-together was for no good reason at all except that the four of us hadn’t spent time together since the launch of Lorraine’s book an entire season ago, (almost two). And due to demanding schedules (that […]
In My Kitchen, September 2013
September 1, 2013 By 49 Comments
September and Spring already! It’s such a lovely feeling to see the back of winter. In my kitchen I have a very special balsamic vinegar given to me by Tania. In Tania’s blog posts she often mentions different types of balsamic vinegars and I have often felt like a Philistine by comparison in that my […]
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