Ice-creams or icy poles become an attractive option during the summer heat. If you are a baker you might already know this, but bananas freeze well. So an icy treat can be created quite simply this way: Peel a banana, cut in half or keep whole (depending on how much you want), insert a paddle…
School goes back this week and I’ve made a fresh batch of these for the lunch boxes. I tweaked the original recipe to add the chia seeds, just to see how they’d go, and to my surprise it worked! Hope you like them too. Recipe 60g butter 2 cups self-raising flour 1/2 cup caster…
My grandmother died from skin cancer. I was quite young, under ten, but that was plenty old enough for impressions and memories to gather for a lifetime: the blemishes on her face and arms, a Lazy Susan on her dining table with several of those ‘7 days to a week’ pill containers to divide medication….
MILO recently approached me with the task to assess a ‘day in the life’ of our eating habits, to examine where we’re going right, and where we might need improvement. In many ways, I’ve done this at what might be considered the best and worst time: we’re coming off the rich, indulgent feasting of Christmas,…
Here’s my garden, as of 12.30pm this afternoon, utterly toasted. Boo. In all honesty, though, it wasn’t much of a magnificent sight before this heat wave rolled through the state. Feast or famine, they’re the two ways my tomatoes tend to grow, and I’ve not had a feast since 2010 and this in 2008: (I’ll interrupt…
As we all sat together at the dinner table just before the new year, I pulled out a sheet of paper and a pen and asked if anyone had anything they wanted to accomplish in 2014. Usually this kind of request is met with tremendous protest, slumping in chairs and quick excuses to leave the…
Remember my goals for 2013? It’s okay if you don’t – truth be told, I had to go back and refresh my memory as to what they were. Luckily, I put them in a handy (albeit scratchily drawn) infographic, so here they are again. Looking at these now the first feeling I get is of…
Sand-crusted and mellowed, I’ve sat down to try and write over the past few days and quickly abandoned these attempts. I sense the words have been spat out in the froth of the surf, subconsciously deemed inadequate – even unnecessary – as I’ve sat upon the warmed rocks, content just in absorbing the elements….
I recently shot a video for IGA about Christmas decorating with the kids. If you’d like to look, it’s now available for view at the IGA website. It was lots of fun! I was also asked to contribute to the’Writers’ Other Jobs’ series over at The Writers Bloc, and I chose to write about…
