Happy New Year! Thank you for supporting my blog through 2015. I appreciate you all and really love when you take the time to visit and comment. Working from home and writing away in solitude can be a lonely affair so knowing you’re there is not only encouraging but allows me to feel I’m writing […]
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 […]
Coco Chocolate Giveaway
March 9, 2014 By 33 Comments
If you have been reading along with me for a while now, you might remember that I participated in a course at Coco Chocolate that taught me how to temper chocolate. Coco Chocolate has three stores that are all in Sydney and as well as running their chocolate school, you can buy a wonderful range […]
Not Quite Nigella’s Halloween Party
October 22, 2013 By 51 Comments
Carl and I scooped the invitation of the year when we were invited to Lorraine’s Halloween Party. If you are a regular reader of Not Quite Nigella you would know that her Halloween parties are famous and that her readers eagerly anticipate the Halloween post. The invitation strictly said that entry was only permissible if […]
Not Quite Nigella, the Book
May 13, 2013 By 64 Comments
When I started my blog two years ago, no one was reading it. Carl’s job every night was to click in and out of my blog to cause something to show up on my blog stats. But quickly Carl’s fingers wore out. As did his keyboard. So as I didn’t know of any blogs besides […]
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 […]
Christmas 2012
December 27, 2012 By 41 Comments
I’ve been wondering how you all celebrated Christmas and hope you had the best of days and thought I would give you a glimpse into how my family and I spent Christmas. After much debate and at least 60 emails it was decided Christmas would, as usual, be at my parents’ house which is actually […]
Little Darling Diner and…My Daughter is Wonderful
October 21, 2012 By 42 Comments
To all those who have contacted me concerned for my cyber-whereabouts, thank you! Rest assured, everything is just peachy here at Hotly Spiced Headquarters, it’s just I’ve had a few unexpected events thrown at me that have consumed me and these have arrived on top of an already jam-packed schedule. So I’m doing a bit […]
4Fourteen and…Lunching Bloggers
June 30, 2012 By 46 Comments
I had the most wonderful day yesterday. Celia from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial organised a lunch with a few Sydney bloggers; bloggers I have been virtually communicating with for around six months but never met. Those who joined me yesterday at 4fourteen in Surry Hills were Lorraine from Not Quite Nigella, Brydie from City […]
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