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…
I wanted to sit down and write about the first time I saw The Master. It was the first thing I thought about when I heard the news about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death this morning. I remembered – or so I thought – that I watched it on the plane coming back from New York…
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,…
Life / January 17th, 2014
We had family come and stay with us between Christmas and New Year. Such visits always demand a flurried and frenzied cleanup, and this occasion was no different. My regular cleaning habits are lax – to say the least – so when I went to open the washing tub door in the laundry, where we…
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…
I can list several indictors as proof of this post’s importance: I’ve been drafting it in my head for days, and then in a Word document (as opposed to straight into the WordPress dashboard), which I’ve kept revisiting, sitting down and looking over these words. Towards the end of last year, and I’ve touched on…
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…
