Archive for the ‘cooking’ Category
TweetDown the gully, around the bend, across the red red dirt and back onto the road … past more strawberry farms, more vineyards, dear little shops and there we were by the sea. Thankfully it was a wee bit warmer than the blustery, chilly ridgetop of Pitchingga. Just :-) Good thing there was plenty of [...]
Tweet It’s finished! A collaboration of time, thought, creativity and perseverance. Such an absolute delight to work with my girlie. I do so adore her. I made a last second dash to the fabric store on Tuesday afternoon to ensure we had red corduroy, white velvet and a red zip with which to turn this [...]
Tweeta busy day, filled with fabric and family. Washing went out and came in and went out and came in several times – dratted Melbourne weather. The kitchen was tidied and mussied up again. Over and over :-) Now, it is Sunday evening – one of my favourite moments in the week. We’re all snuggled [...]
Tweet … looking at my kitchen bench this weekend, I recognised with satisfaction the change of season that is upon us. Instead of rows of soft and sweetly smelling stone fruit, the bench is heavy with pumpkins and cabbages. There are bowls of walnuts instead of berries. The last of the summer tomatoes are ripening [...]
Tweet :: making brownies for Abby and then finding out they are really intended as payment to Julian for coming home early from work last week to help out with her school stage crew commitments! :: Hugh’s bread dough – most successful bread baking ever! :: Nana Nicky’s pretty parasol being put to such good [...]
Tweetahhh … a long weekend. Such bliss. We are … :: cooking and eating our way through Hugh’s new cookbook – Veg – though Abby is not sure the recipes could be considered authentic Hugh seeing as he has lost his curly mop! :: casting loving and longing looks at the two new gorgeous skeins [...]
TweetTo celebrate Julian’s birthday on Sunday, I baked a birthday cake. One of our favourites – the Hazlenut and chocolate cake from an early 2000 edition of the English Country Living. It needed 6 eggs … which the girls graciously produced … Oh their eggs are so beautiful … the yolks are fat and firm [...]
TweetI meant to post this last night … but fell asleep watching a film with Julian and Hannah … so we can pretend it’s still Sunday can’t we. I’m sure it is somewhere in the world :-) Lots of kitchen time … stocks for the freezer made with the sun parched herbs from our garden [...]
TweetNow I know this was all a while ago – in a couple of weeks it will be two months – my goodness! But there are so many more beautiful photos of Abby’s Alice in Wonderland Birthday Party that this weekend, I just have to share … Above, is the tea party table. Oh, it [...]
Tweet Oh there has been so much goodness today. Here I sit, my white shirt sleeves speckled with red, the kitchen floor sticky with juice, sour cherry jam at a rambunctious boil, and the garden full of shrieks and laughter as three fourteen year olds – also bespeckled with cherry red – race round and [...]
TweetAh … it would seem I’m on a wee bit of a housewifely kick here. Today’s theme, following upon yesterday’s thriller of “ironing boards” is “saucepans”. And once again I shall protest, but they are pretty saucepans! It’s really all the fault of the teacups. The ones we began haunting thrift shops for … for [...]
Tweet Jules and I have given up coffee (mum gasps!). At first, it seemed like a horrible, completely-undoable thing to do. Especially since we have a beautiful Italian expresso machine that looks like she stepped straight out of the 1950s. And especially since we truly love our coffee. But we’d been feeling as if coffee [...]
