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A word of warning before you visit Cyril’s Fine Foods – Cyril may charm you into buying more of his fine foods than you intended. If you are into food and you happen to be in the Haymarket area, I definitely recommend you poke your head in and take a look. The store is on [...]
It is a little ridiculous that it took an American living in Paris to point me in the direction of a good lamington in Sydney but that’s what happened. A lamington is a quintessentially Australian cake. In the US, Girl Scouts sell Girl Scout cookies. In Australia, Girl Guides or school kids have “lamington drives” [...]
One of the best things about summer in Australia is the fruit, especially mangoes! My babies think so too – they’ll do just about anything for mango. You can see my daughter here sucking on a mango seed and looking pretty happy with life. Any time I eat a mango near either of the babies, [...]
Last week I listed a dozen travel blogs I love to read. Today I’m going to share some more blog recommendations, starting off with some more travel blogs and then expanding to other themes. Which blogs rock YOUR world? Have you nominated anyone for the 2012 Bloggies yet? Nominations close on Sunday (Monday Australian time) [...]
I am not a stickler for doing everything from scratch but I much prefer to make my own mince pies. I am inevitably disappointed by shop-bought mince pies. The problem is the pastry. Even with the fancy brands, I don’t enjoy the pastry nearly as much as when I make it myself. I also find [...]
I have to admit I had my doubts that we were going to reach our target with Passports with Purpose this year. To raise $80,000 – $30,000 more than last year’s target – seemed way too ambitious given the economic climate. I was quite worried when we only reached the halfway point with less than [...]
That Roulla Yiacoumi is a clever cookie! She is a successful freelance technology journalist in Sydney and now she is also a baking entrepreneur. She has just launched her new business Cookie Constructions and is rushed off her feet with Christmas orders. For Christmas she is selling gingerbread houses in various sizes, in both a classic fairytale construction [...]
Do you remember the photo of that delectable dessert in my post about the Sunshine Coast hinterland? I bought it from the Freestyle Escape stall at the Real Food Festival in Maleny. Guess what? You could win a cookery class at Freestyle Escape and raise money to build libraries in Zambia at the same time! It’s [...]
Call me a food geek but I really enjoy visiting local farmers markets when I’m on holiday. It feel I am getting to know a place when I see what types of produce are grown and made nearby. It’s also fascinating to see what rules the market goes by. Some markets are citified foodie destinations [...]
Our trip to Bordeaux was well planned in every respect, except one: We flew instead of catching the train and this meant we couldn’t buy wine to take home. It was April 2007 and we were living in London. The airlines had recently imposed the ban on carrying liquids on board the flight. As we [...]
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