I wasn’t kidding when I said it was impossible to go wrong with the amazeballs, consequently our recipe here at home has morphed with each making and currently it’s proving an easy winner and looking better than ever before. Lately I have been leaving out the raw cacao powder for some variety and rolling them …
Oldest Daughter: “Why are you always frowning at me when I talk to you lately?” Me: “Because the Botox has worn off and I have ‘Bitchy Resting Face’. Sorry.” This is something that has bothered me for years without my having any idea what it was; ever since I was in a restaurant with a …
“Poor Rob” as people sometimes refer to my husband has a terribly sore back. He recently had to forgo several days of surfing while on a surfing holiday. This is him after a recent visit to the physio: Coincidentally, at this time his buddy (today’s Clever Man) Henry Willis has been expounding the virtues of …
So I enrolled at university yesterday. As a result, I’m feeling hip and cool enough to start all my sentences with “so”. So I walk in to Winthrop Hall at the University of Western Australia and I want to say I was transported back to my first year of university in the mid-1980s but in …
Director: Shawn Levy Running time: 119 minutes Screenplay: Vince Vaughn, Jared Stern If you like silly comedy and don’t mind your movies a little (okay, a lot) formulaic, The Internship is the movie for you. It is a fun ride – the packed, extra-large cinema was filled with people roaring with laughter. Just the ticket on a cold winter’s …
This post is about cancer, so first let’s make some jokes about superfoods. That works, doesn’t it? I read a very funny article by Maggie Kelly yesterday. Her view of the clean eating mega-trend that is sweeping the first world. Among the gems, this: Zucchini pasta is nothing like the real thing. It is like how those …
Another one that surprised me with its simplicity recommended by former country lass and fellow child of the seventies, Sara: Corned Beef, or Silverside as we knew it. No wonder my mother made this for us regularly when we were young and she was living the feminist dream of raising three kids, putting food on the …
My corner of Australia is rife with head colds at the moment. I tried to dodge the one after me but have succumbed gracelessly. Winter is officially upon us and while is sunny and crisp, bugs abound, so I’ve had time to lie around reading the paper and surf the world-wide web. Because of all …
On the advice of a sensible friend who recently quit sugar and has not cried into her vodka soda once about it, I picked up Sarah Wilson’s new cook book in the flesh the other day. I already had her book on kindle but since I decided to catch up on six seasons of Mad Men …
Food Prep: Hate it (mostly). When I want to paint a room, the only way to do it is buy a big tin of paint and pour some into a tray, roll a roller into it and start painting. I have not left out a single detail. My husband Rob boringly always says “preparation, preparation, …