For the love of food
I’m very excited to welcome my first guest blogger stepping in to help me out while I’m jet-setting over to NYC! Jennifer aka Mother Thyme has been a blogging friend of mine for a couple of years now. She comes up with the most amazing looking recipes and has absolutely beautiful photos. They make me [...]
This month in my kitchen isn’t all that exciting. We’re leaving for New York tomorrow and then we’re moving on to our new house so I’ve been trying to whittle down the supplies. First in my kitchen is a box of fresh passionfruit. They are absolutely enormous - I’m talking the size of tennis balls. I’ve been [...]
If you’ve been visiting here for a while you’ll know that at my bridal shower last year, my grandma gifted me three of her old recipe books one of which was an original 1940s edition of The Commonsense Cookery Book. I posted a photo of its guide to meat cuts on Instagram last week and learned [...]
When I was much younger I had a Marie Claire health and beauty book. I can still picture some of the images of young girls with toned bodies and glowing skin doing cartwheels on the beach. I don’t really remember much of that book but I do remember that it had a whole page on [...]
Ok so I’ve gotten a little bit obsessed with Jamie Oliver recently. Not in a mad stalker way just in an I love his enthusiasm and vigour in the kitchen and his presentation way. He manages to make the simplest things into flavour explosions and somehow piles things onto boards like a work of art. [...]
Walking to the gym this morning I passed a very sad sight. Brett’s Wharf, almost a Hamilton institution has shut up shop. Sunday was their last day of trading and now this is what is left. Chairs, tables, trays, cupboards, computer systems and even awnings and pot plants are marked with greysonline lot numbers [...]
A nasty surprise welcomed us on return from our golf weekend last week. We had taken a long weekend and left on Friday so hadn’t collected the mail. Will returned from the mail box looking furious with a handful of opened mail. Someone had broken in. It seems they felt for cards and only opened [...]
My mum is from the bush so like most bushies, went to boarding school. She tells us lots of great stories from her school days like why she now has a tablespoon of Vegemite on a centimeter of toast, but the best thing she has shared with me recently is her recipe for Hartree Tart. [...]
We have this little tradition in my family of ‘cocktail hour.’ It’s not your traditional round of martinis but every night at around 6pm we have a drink and a few chips. My most favourite combination is tasty cheese CCs and a diet coke or as I like to call it CCs and DC. I [...]
I love Twitter. I still find it so cool that I can write a message to anyone anywhere in the world and get a reply. On the day of the baby shower I tweeted Garry Younberry (the channel 9 weather man up here in Queensland) to ask if I should set a table outside. He [...]
A few months ago I wrote a review of Sourced Grocer for On the Menu. It’s a gorgeous little cafe/grocer that opened recently in New Farm. The food is fabulous and I already have a favourite – smashed avocado on sourdough toast with labne. It’s absolutely delicious. The only thing that could make it any [...]
I am rather inspired by lemons at the moment. Yellow brings such happy thoughts and feelings and to me, lemon provides these feelings in edible form. I have a bag of fresh lemons in the my kitchen at the moment, a gift from my mum’s aunt so when mum asked me to bake and afternoon [...]
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.
