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1. Your Time If you live within driving distance of your mum there is almost no excuse for not spending Mothers Day with her. At least part of it. I am not going to wax lyrical about why, that should be self evident. Even if you have nothing else to give her but a hug…
The other day I popped over to my good friend Marieka’s place shortly after she had pulled a pear cobbler out of the oven. It smelled awesome. Crazy good awesome. And even better, it was the product of her hidden orchard preserved pears, and dairy from her own house cow. With local flour via Laucke’s…
This is a little tutorial in pictures of the naturally dyed eggs the small people and I made this last week. We focussed on red cabbage for the dye colour and used baby grape vine leaves wrapped in stockings left in the cold dye overnight to achieve the effect. It was a beautiful thing to…
Hot cross buns. I think they are just about my favourite thing at Easter. Fresh and hot, straight out of the oven, they are Just. The. Best. Given as gifts over the Easter weekend they come up absolute trumps as well. Wrap them in a little brown paper and twine and I can gurantee they…
I adore autumn. Generally the first few weeks of the season are still very much summery in feel, but as the cool nights take over from warm, and afternoons bring the gully breeze that blows right through the house in a cleansing energising way, it feels the season is truly upon us. While I find…
Probably the two greatest challenges for me when I want to support locally grown and made are chocolate and coffee. I live in South Australia. You can’t, as far as I am aware, grow either here. Which brings up the big ugly question, should I, in good conscience, continue to consume them. Leaving the question…