Archie is stressed. And over-worked and over-tired. It’s because Rent opens in just over two weeks and Archie is feeling the pressure. He says Jonathon Larson wrote a musical score that can kill a singer’s voice because of the range the performer has to sing coupled with the length of time his character has to […]
Archives for August 2013
Mudgee Food and Wine Fair, Balmoral
August 12, 2013 By 36 Comments
Yesterday I had two choices. I could run 14kms in the City to Surf with 85,000 others or I could take a picnic rug down to Balmoral Beach and sip wines from the Mudgee Region of New South Wales. It wasn’t a difficult decision. I attended the Mudgee Food and Wine Fair last year and […]
How to Make Gluten-Free Pasta with Truffle Butter Sauce
August 9, 2013 By 43 Comments
A few weeks ago I attended a cooking course on how to make gluten-free pasta and gnocchi. Gabriele Taddeucci who is Italian and a coeliac and the head-chef of Balla, ran the course and has allowed me to share his recipes. Gabriele has two different recipes for making pasta by either hand or machine. I […]
Scoop Wholefoods, Mosman
August 8, 2013 By 45 Comments
In the last few days a new shop has opened that’s within walking distance from where I live called Scoop Wholefoods. It’s situated almost at Mosman Junction on Spit Road but the shop goes all the way through to the rear lane where you can enter Bridgepoint Shopping Centre. So it’s in a great location […]
No-Bake, Easy Hedgehog Slice and…Night Runs!
August 6, 2013 By 49 Comments
‘Night Runs’. It’s been a while since we’ve had a post about Archie and his goings-on at boarding school. A few weeks ago Archie said to me, ‘I really miss boarding school; I just had the best time’. Now you have all heard me talk about the highs and the lows of Archie’s boarding school […]
How to Make Gluten-Free Gnocchi
August 4, 2013 By 46 Comments
A few weeks ago I attended a course by Gabriele Taddeucci on how to make gluten-free gnocchi. He kindly and generously allowed me to share his recipes with you. A close-up view! I do have to let you know that I’m no expert in making beautiful, light-as-a-pillow gnocchi. I have horror memories of once ambitiously […]
In My Kitchen, August 2013
August 3, 2013 By 50 Comments
I haven’t done an ‘In My Kitchen’ post for a while; mostly because I didn’t want to bore you with the mundane items that fill my kitchen in order to fill the mouths of hungry uni student and reluctant eight-year olds. Not terribly exciting! But this month I do have a few things worth sharing. […]
Irene Gleeson, the ‘Lioness of Africa’
August 2, 2013 By 25 Comments
A few days ago I was enjoying a quick catch-up with Lorraine and Celia. We were talking about what we’d been up to and I had to let them know that sadly, I’d been to another funeral. ‘Another funeral?’ asked Celia, ‘Wasn’t there just one?’ And I said, ‘No, there’s been two’. And so I […]
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