These are ‘hot cross buns’. After a little healthy discussion, or what some may call a heated debate (between a 7 and 9 year old) about what we should call these little fruit filled, cinnamon scented gems, it was decided that we could probably get away with calling them hot cross buns, as long as […]

And just like that, it was Autumn. As I sit here listening to my new favourite music discovered over the weekend – a swedish/icelandic duo called My Bubba {if you like whimsical folk music you will love them} – I am bathed with the sense of the seasons changing. There is a new lustre in […]

I’ve been talking a lot to my friends recently about energy levels. It seems that everyone is feeling tired, and wondering where the start of the year has gone. Ailments have been cropping up, people have just generally not been feeling their best. It can be really hard to find that balance of doing enough, […]

The weather here this past week has been seriously crazy – super hot followed by really cold, and lots and lots of rain. Melbourne’s weather has a reputation as being changeable, but this past week has been stranger than most. I have found that lots of people I’ve been talking to are really struggling with […]

I don’t know quite how it has been such a long time since I’ve been here. Life happened I suppose; mine and all the others around me. Busyness, in many ways – a week here and a week there, lots of little commitments which leads to time getting away from you. And then with the […]

Having a vegetable patch means even when you think there’s nothing to eat, hopefully you can make yourself some kind of proper meal. The cupboards or the fridge might look pretty bare, but if you’ve got something green growing somewhere, then you can toss up a quick salad at the very least. I am a […]

I do love to tell a story; mostly to myself, just something private, inside my own mind. My usual way of dreaming up a story is by using a food to inspire the dream. Something about a food will flicker in my imagination and craft around itself a scene; a feeling, a place and a […]

At home, especially on the weekends, lunch often looks a little something like this. Something green (from the garden, if something’s going), a little protein and almost always a carrot. Good simple fare, not always glamorous, but tasty and nourishing. But this salad bowl was something a little bit different all thanks to my husband, […]

There are a few recipes that I have searched for in my extensive collection of cookbooks in the past, and always had trouble finding. Healthy muffins or loaf cakes, and good banana bread that’s not filled with sugar, are some of the recipes that you would think you would be everywhere, but I have found […]

Sometimes all you need is a little sunshine, a good tune on the radio, or the answer to a question you’ve been wondering about for a while. A little ray of hope, a signal of some kind; confirmation that whatever you have been doing, or whatever it is that you feel like you know (even […]