New courses for Passports with Purpose sponsor Freestyle Escape

Freestyle Escape has updated its cooking class schedule for next year and it looks like a fantastic program. New additions to the schedule since my prize post include a class with Alex Herbert of Bird Cow Fish on July 7. Passports with Purpose ends this week – you need to donate by midnight Seattle time [...]

Passports with Purpose: Cookery class at Freestyle Escape

Freestyle Escape cookery class

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 FestivalĀ 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 [...]

Thai cookery class at the Spirit House

Crispy prawns at Spirit House

I have been wanting to eat at the Spirit House for years. It is a Thai restaurant in Yandina, near Noosa on the Queensland Sunshine Coast, and everyone says it is amazing. To reach the dining hall, you take a winding path through a lush rainforest garden and past a pond. There are Buddha statues [...]

Country landscapes and cultural life in Maleny

Dessert

The year I turned 13 I lived in south-east Queensland for a year. My mum and I moved back to Sydney at the end of that year but over the years various family members migrated north. Now my Grandma, two aunts, two uncles, four cousins and assorted partners and children all live up there, either [...]

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