I’m cleaning out the freezer and so the plan today was to cook chicken. I defrosted some Lilydale breasts and some wonton wrappers (the crap that accumulates!). The Gasworks Farmers’ Market brought us baby leeks and coriander to round out the filling, and the Prahran Market Tour from a few weeks ago turned up some […]

I was sent this photo along with the comment “Oops – forgot to take a ‘before’ shot”. Hmmm….yes – I get unsolicited food photos. Yes – they sometimes aren’t technically of food!

I can’t call them muffins as my religion forbids me, and these are just too good. They are destined for the lads in Accounts who have been working too hard in the lead up to the end of financial year, and I’ve been making a lot of that work for them. I think these are […]

We drank this with a 1998 D’Arenberg The High Trellis Cabernet Sauvingnon which was bought when I first started collecting wine with a view to drinking it later.  It was pretty scrummy. Serves 2 4 Lamb Fillets or Backstraps 1 large (or two small) lemons Coucous Tablespoon Pine Nuts Dried Mint, fresh mint Cinnamon Sweet […]

 JB called and said – I’ve got chicken and bread and stuff .. lets eat somewhere in the sunshine.  Good Idea I thought.  Off to Carlton Gardens to take advantage of the perfect picnicking weather.  Blue Skies, not too hot to sit in the sun, not too hot for sensible clothing.  Nice 🙂 I got […]

I woke fairly early and let the beasties out into the un-seasonal cool and went back to bed.  I was happily reading when Sundance popped in with a gleeful jump and pounce and roll and jump.  I saw one of his long tailed toys on the floor and in the gloom thought it was that […]

  Although Lygon St in Carlton is the name on every tourist’s lists when they want to eat out in Melbourne, unfortunately the food is mostly pedestrian, and sometimes awful!  JB and I have a running joke about one “traditional” Lygon street establishment that we allowed a friend of a friend to drag us along to, […]

I suspect that due to the four day Christmas weekend, there were no places to put the cats over Christmas (I tried in October!) so I didn’t get to Queensland this weekend.  I really should have been there this year as Mum has not been very well, and Dad is struggling to look after her […]

I was mucking around trying to work our how to link Flickr to Livejournal (feel free to tell me how! I can’t work it out) and I came across photos of the kittens. I haven’t transferred photos over from my old laptop yet – so I haven’t seen these in ages… awwww They will be […]