>yarra valley after the fires
>I had reason to travel to Healesville and Yarra Glen this week, ten days after the worst bushfires in Australian history hit. Read more here. We all want to help, so what should we do? Go there....
View Article>the traditional Irish-Australian barbecue
>Take one Irish-Australian woman, a warm summer’s evening, a pleasant bottle of 2000 Langhorne Creek shiraz, some sausages made by an Irish butcher in Sydney, a freshly-made Greek salad and a couple...
View Article>things I learned from my masseur
>Paul is a remedial masseur who works in Peppers Mineral Spa in Hepburn Springs, the heart of spa country here in Victoria. He is a refreshing change to those twenty-something beauty therapists who...
View Article>tea blossom
> I could get used to these! This one I got from T2 but I believe there is a website called http://www.teablossoms.com.au/ that may become addictive…
View Article>winter hibernation food
>Charmaine and I were out for our Indian Food Odyssey a couple of weeks ago when we got onto the perennial subject of hibernation food. The temperature goes down, the days get shorter, and even...
View Article>punjabi kitchen king masala
>We are lucky enough to have a great Indian supermarket nearby in West Footscray. Along with freshly-made vegetable samosas, Hindu statues, Bollywood DVDs and Indian crisps and snacks, I can pick up...
View Article>fill up on wine
> I just spent three weeks in Ireland, enjoying the availability of lots of wine I don’t normally see: Argentinian, Chilean, Spanish, Italian, French. We can of course get non-Australian wines here,...
View Article>you’re looking at $5 – anti-poverty chef challenge
>Red Cross has launched a pocket-size collection of $5 recipes for families struggling to get by in Queensland, to mark Anti-Poverty Week which runs from 17 to 23 October 2010. ‘Many of the people...
View Articlefill up on bread – year in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,100 views in 2012. If...
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