Breakfast time for me: (home made sugar free granola with Greek yoghurt* and rhubarb and a green smoothie) In Mid July 2011 I gave up su...

According to Maggie Beer, wonderful South Australian cook and 'I wish she was my grandmother ' lady, you either have a sweet palate ...

If I could have conveniently timed my babies I would not have had one at the end of November (too close to Christmas) and end of March (bad ...

Nigella Lawson's new book Kitchen has a couple of useful chapters about the way she sets out and designs her kitchens, what she uses in...

Halloween is not a big celebration here in Australia but this year it falls over the Melbourne Cup (very) long weekend, which is four days f...

Today I received from divine Raina a surprise package of Verandah, Home Beautiful and Elle Decor.   All the way from Colorado.  THANK YOU LO...

I have been rereading Elizabeth David's eccentric little tome 'Spices Salt and Aromatics in the English kitchen'. It is a short ...

This week, the Blue Diamond, which is not the Riley Car Club, nor is it a restaurant rather a very elegant bar nightclub in central Melbour...

Although it is spring now it has been raining constantly for days in Melbourne. So last night I made a winter standby, potato dauphinoise. T...