An unusual Thai red curry 21 Feb 2013 | 02:13 pm

I haven’t taken a great photo here but this was a really nice curry. I wanted a red curry but not the usual creamy, sweetish red curry. I wanted itto have a hint of bitterness mixed with a hint of hea...

My 2013 food quest 22 Jan 2013 | 08:51 am

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote I have decided that this year I am going to get really, rea...

Happy New Year! 9 Jan 2013 | 11:44 am

I hope you are surviving the extreme hot weather this week – the hottest on record for Australia apparently. Friends living or holidaying on the other side of the world keep sending photos of snow, ma...

After school date cake 20 Nov 2012 | 11:35 am

Not a cake for a ‘date’ but a cake with dates! I needed something for afternoon tea for my kids. Swimming lessons after school so they needed something for an energy boost. Not enough time to make any...

Food for thought 15 Nov 2012 | 07:19 am

How do you cook your vegies? (I hate microwaved food, especially vegetables, so steaming is the way to go for me.)

Dreaming of market day in Provence 1 Nov 2012 | 04:01 am

And then there were four…bee hives 17 Oct 2012 | 03:34 am

A few days  after our first swarm, we noticed another swarm in the late afternoon. This time it was too late to try and catch them. We followed the progress of the cloud of swirling bees as they moved...

Spring flowers 13 Oct 2012 | 06:13 am

Have you been enjoying the spring flowers? These gorgeous ones overhang the top of my driveway at the moment – a gorgeous ‘curtain’ that I enter and leave home through. Normally my neighbour manages t...

Finally – decent Thai food on the North Shore! 10 Oct 2012 | 06:26 am

It’s not where you would expect to find good food (or me!)…the food court at Westfield Chatswood. The food is terrific even if the location isn’t. In fact it is so good that as soon as we finished the...

A bee swarm! 8 Oct 2012 | 05:46 am

It’s been so long since I gave you an update on our bees…and so much has happened. I joined our local bee keepers association earlier this year and have learned so much from them. We also acquired a s...