Day 2 of the Gourmet Garden Bloggers Conference started with a bus ride from Noosa to Woodford via Beerwah. I was within a few hundred meters of the Sisters for a few moments there – luckily I’d only been away from them for twenty-five hours at that point – any longer and I may have [...]
parsley, sage, rosemary and having a great time – the Gourmet Garden Cook Off
May 23, 2013 by · 8 Comments
parsley, sage, rosemary and having a great time. Gourmet Garden Bloggers Conference
May 21, 2013 by · 17 Comments
Day 1 of the Gourmet Garden Bloggers Conference started before the sparrow farted. Casa de Cooker was a flurry of activity until the girls were out the door and I started randomly applying paint to my face and shoes to my feet. I was ready with seven minutes to spare – just enough time to [...]
coriander and carrot bread + things to do in the backseat of moving vehicles
May 15, 2013 by · 10 Comments
I’ve decided that I won’t press publish on this post until I’m safely ensconced in the back of the transfer service’s car enroute to the Gourmet Garden bloggers’ conference in Noosa. So many things can derail my departure between now and then, I daren’t send this post into the ether for fear I’ll jinx myself. [...]
The Great Australian Fish Pie + a side of mother guilt
May 13, 2013 by · 31 Comments
The Big Sister was twenty-eight hours old when I first experienced mother guilt. Things had gotten pretty hairy after her delivery but with help from good people I was on the mend. When the nurses bought her to me in the middle of the night for a feed, I didn’t want to get up. I [...]
bites for blokes – Jan’s man food
May 9, 2013 by · 5 Comments
Long term readers will recall my tearful reunion with Jack last year. Jack is a bit of a doggy delinquent and I’ve collected him from many far flung places over the years. If I’d only strapped a Go-Pro to his melon, I might have made enough to cover his bail bills! Our hound is a [...]
Mother’s Day when someone is missing
May 7, 2013 by · 23 Comments
I was picking my cuticles while I sat in my GP’s office a few months after David died. I was telling him that my milk was drying up and how I was dreading the approach of Christmas. He listened and agreed – Christmas would be shit. Then he gently suggested that worrying about it would [...]
jam roly poly. it’s no match for fairy bread.
May 2, 2013 by · 24 Comments
We were under strict instructions not to be late to kindy yesterday. This, of course, meant something would inevitably go wrong. So I shouldn’t have been surprised that, just as we were about to walk out the door, the Little Sister called out “Mummy, hurt”. She was not, in fact, hurt. She was covered in her own [...]
Lim’s fabulous Kra-Praow Muu | Sweet Basil Pork
April 29, 2013 by · 19 Comments
I’m confident that my brother in law Craig, knew my answer when he phoned to ask whether I’d like an impromptu cooking class from one of his mates visiting from Singapore. A few hours later, James and Lim arrived at the farm, car and arms loaded with ingredients for what became a five course Thai [...]
no foe shall gather our harvest | ANZAC traditions
April 24, 2013 by · 9 Comments
The first time I attended the Dawn Service at Orchid Beach, I was moved to tears. Listening to the waves and the birds during a moment of silence; I pictured the young men of Gallipoli and the ways in which their lives and the lives of the families were changed forever that morning. We were [...]
permanence and peekaboo
April 18, 2013 by · 10 Comments
Babies don’t understand object permanence. If they can’t see it, they think it doesn’t exist. It’s only after they grow, they start to understand that just because their block is under a blanket, it’s not gone for good; that Mum has only disappeared from view. I’m beginning to think that death is the same. I’m [...]
