For the love of food
I’m a bit of a hermit when it comes to my home town. Not hermit as in a person who never leaves their house but I don’t actually venture too much away from the area we live or where our friends live. It had been years since I’d ventured over to the south side of [...]
It’s almost instinctive. I can smell it in the air. As soon as the chill arrives, so too does the sweet, rosy fruit and its myriad of dessert combinations. It’s the meeting of the soft, sweet fruit, still with a little bite and the crunchy, golden topping that sucks me in. Serve it to me [...]
Let the Birthday eating begin… I forget that Brisbane is such a hip place now. Not long ago, turning up to a popular breakfast spot at 8.30am on a Friday you’d be pretty unlucky to not get your choice of a few tables. Times have changed though and arriving at Anouk Paddington with mum and [...]
This time last year, apart from a quick dinner before a show at the Lyric Theatre, I hadn’t been anywhere near Southbank for years. In the last five months, I’ve visited at least five times. Why? Well, a place that I once thought was a bit boring seems to have morphed into a little haven [...]
‘How is Claire not the size of a house?’ That question was posed to one of my friends by a friend of hers who reads my blog. With the number of sweet and somewhat naughty recipes I post here you’d be forgiven for thinking I was enormous. You know I’m very anti-diet and believe that [...]
This week I’ve been a little bit naughty. Instead of my usual fruit and vege-packed smoothie for breakfast, I’ve been indulging in a little sweet treat. Usually when I bake banana bread it’s for my mum. In fact I could even blame her for giving me the idea of banana bread for breakfast because it’s [...]
It’s a rare Saturday morning that I have my husband home before 11am, golf widow that I am, so I was not all that disappointed when a certain someone missed out on a tee-off time last weekend. The weekend before, Kristin had been to breakfast at a little place and I was instructed to try [...]
Today I am the old stereotype of a blogger. It’s 9.30am and I am still in my pajamas. Bad Claire! I was knocked down by an unkindly spring bug yesterday so that’s my excuse. I’ve been hitting the vitamin C and every other remedy I know hard for 48 hours now so hopefully I’ll be [...]
I’m a little bit cranky this morning. Will’s been trying to convince me to put a no-junk-mail sticker on our letterbox for weeks but my response is always ‘how will I know about the good deals?’ He even tried to use the environmental argument with me – imagine how many trees go into making all [...]
It was dark, it was cold and we were all snuggled in our comfy, ok somewhat comfortable, bunk beds on grade nine camp when the horn blew. It was 5am and apparently that was an acceptable waking time on school camp. Our camp just happened to be on a macadamia farm. I think there was [...]
This post is sponsored by Kellogg’s and Nuffnang. A few weeks ago I introduced Kellogg’s new All-Bran Fibre Toppers and not being one to shy away from a food challenge, took the All-Bran 7 Day Challenge where you eat All-Bran Fibre Toppers every day for 7 days and see if you feel All-Bran New [...]
I was a hero this morning. Ok maybe not a serious hero in all senses of the word but I did make one family pretty happy. I was near the end of my Saturday morning walk/run when I spotted a gorgeous white fluffy kitten with big blue eyes cowering on the footpath. This little girl [...]
I am Claire & I love food. Here you'll find my favourite recipes, tips, tricks, restaurants & plates full of frivolity with the odd crafty post. New inspiration posted daily.
