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Coconut Milk & Quinoa Porridge
It’s come to that time of the year where I wake up and never want to get out of bed, it’s just too cold! Unfortunately for me I live in a house where my bedroom may as well be made out of cardboard as there is absolutely no insulation and some days it’s even warmer [...]
My Intrepid Travel Thailand Food Adventure! (Plus amazing chicken curry recipe…)
You may have noticed that I have not blogged lately. It’s just that I have been very busy working in Thailand eating my body weight in new culinary discoveries, snapping photographs like a woman possessed at every produce market conceivable (even one that is built quite inconveniently on top of a railway track!) and learning [...]
Prune Power Balls
Who would’ve thought that 10 years after Samantha Jones convinced her gaggle of girlfriends – Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte – to dine at Raw, where the waiter was hot but the food was not, the ‘Raw Food Revolution’ would become more hipster than hippie? I remember I scoffed at the concept when this episode of [...]
Vietnamese Chicken Soup with Green ‘Noodles’
There’s one thing that melds all cultures, religions, races, politicians, hell even opposing football team supporters together into one big steaming stockpot of deliciousness. It is of course chicken soup. Vegetarians you really do need to stop segregating yourself from the rest of us meat-eaters and get on board the chicken soup train of love! [...]
‘No Bake’ ANZAC Lemon Cheesecake
I usually go out of my way to avoid charity spruikers, you know the ones that hang outside of shopping centres with puppy dog eyes trying to guilt you into signing up to save the children or environment or whales or those poor CEOs affected by the GFC. Does that make me a bad person? [...]
Roast Pumpkin & Coconut Soup
One of the things I like about living in the country is the humble honesty box, it’s a practical system that upholds common decency, where farmers sell fresh produce on the side of the road and trust folks to pay for it via the honesty box. It makes me feel all warm and gooey inside, [...]
Live Below The Line
I can almost hear the collective sigh across the country as the weekend is nearing! Hurrah for Friday night drinks, a Saturday sleep in and a relaxing Sunday morning reading the paper and maybe even going out for breakfast? But what if you only had $2 per day to spend? Well, that would buy you [...]
Super Food Smoothies
The other day I saw Tiffany Hall in the flesh. You know the blonde, bronzed Goddess from The Biggest Loser? The first (and only) thing I said to her was, ‘Wow, now I really feel fat and pale’. I couldn’t help but compare my short, chubby legs / cankles to Tiffany’s taut calf muscles and [...]
Chan’s Dumpling Festival
I cannot remember a time in my life where I didn’t eat dumplings. When I was young my family were never the type to eat at an Italian or Indian restaurant, if we went out for lunch or dinner, it was always to a suburban Chinese restaurant where garish chandeliers that reflected subtle neon lights hung [...]
Greek Lamb Wraps
There’s certain things in life that just go together perfectly, take for instance, tomato and basil, vanilla and strawberries, lemon and fish. It just works! Lamb and cumin also fits into this category. Rub a little cumin and salt into a lovely piece of lamb before frying or roasting it and it makes the meat [...]
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