Eating lighter

I love eating foods that are satisfying, full of flavour, and have real substance to them - I'm a roast lamb and veggie, chicken pie, thick bread and butter, pumpkin pie kind of girl. I can't help it, it is so ingrained in my nature to want to eat dense food. But, I'm not working … Continue reading Eating lighter

Tuesday Dinner

I always start out with grand intentions, and then quickly discover I have neither the time, nor commitment, to see things through, but, I would like to start a regular Tuesday post on what we're having for dinner. Why Tuesday? For me it's a quiet routine day. Aside from school drop offs and pick-ups, and … Continue reading Tuesday Dinner

Essentials

I was reading a past post recently on a lovely blog I like to follow The Nourishing Gourmet, where the blog's author Kimi Harris identified the foods she likes to always have to hand in order to feed her family nourishing food. The essentials list. It got me to thinking of what my essentials list … Continue reading Essentials

making bread

Over the years I have played with bread baking, with mostly disappointing results. Each time I produced a loaf of thick, indigestible damper with a crust the density of an emu egg I'd be put off and wouldn't try again till the next year. But that all changed when I faced my culinary fears and … Continue reading making bread

a good read

I have a few books that I regularly turn to. I find them absolutely invaluable to getting back in the right frame of mind when life turns into a blur and I can no longer maintain consistent good eating habits at home. I'll go through those books over time, but for the moment I'd like … Continue reading a good read