For the love of food
I hope all the mothers out there had a wonderful day yesterday. We started the day celebrating with 10,000 other people at the Mother’s Day Classic walk for breast cancer. It was so wonderful to see so many people turn out to support a cause. Of course there was eating to be done after that [...]
Today is a very special day for two, very special reasons. Today is The Twins’ Birthday! They’re celebrating in serious style with a pink party tomorrow and my goodness you should see the preparations. I was called in to help with baking yesterday and would you believe, between three of us (adults I mean – [...]
For at least a week I had the same after work routine. Come home, change into something more comfortable then mix up another batch of flour and water and carefully apply the newspaper strips to my craft project. What was it you ask? It was a piñata, but not just any piñata, a penis piñata for my friend Sarah’s [...]
The rain was still bucketing down outside. We’d spent so much time on the couch that there were Claire and Will shaped indents in each of our spots (yes we have spots, don’t judge) and 13 episodes into Prison Break season one, I was starting to plan my escape from the house. The weather had [...]
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 [...]
In about November last year I got a bit of a hot weather cold/chest infection thing and deemed it unsafe to go to the gym. I’ll say that I was being considerate to fellow gym members and not wanting to spread the germs (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it). Then December rolled around [...]
Our tree is finally starting to look like Christmas as more gifts are added as they trickle in from my online orders or are whipped up in the kitchen. One of the delicious gifts under our Christmas tree is my homemade macadmia dukkah. It’s another very easy recipe to prepare and makes a delicious present [...]
My mum says that she doesn’t mind making dinner, it’s thinking of what to have that she doesn’t like so much. I’m the same a lot of the time although with me, it’s more that I have so many recipes saved I can never choose one. Last week I received a very lovely email from [...]
When I was at school (I hope I haven’t told this story before), I went to a friends house to play after school. We arrived at her house to a table laid with baked goodies and all sorts of treats. I’d never seen anything like it. As soon as I got home I told mum [...]
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 [...]
When I was younger and we’d have family gatherings my mum would always put out a bowl of nuts. My uncle doctor would warn us kids away from them saying that kids weren’t allowed to eat nuts because they could choke. I didn’t really see the logic in this, couldn’t I choke on anything? So [...]
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.
