Happy belated Valentine’s Day everyone! Hope you spent it with all your loves, the big ones, the little ones and the furry ones. Me? Panu had the day off work (for an unrelated reason) but we had lunch together – burgers, milkshakes and a sleeping baby in the pram. Couldn’t ask for more than that! … Read More →
Last Saturday night we attended the wedding of our friends, Lilla and Matt, at Doltone House in Sylvania. It was a big Italian wedding and there was so much food I literally did not even touch my main (an overcooked steak.. meh) but I did have room for one last cannoli. Anyway, we had a … Read More →
Last weekend, our little crew of eight adults and three kids went road trippin’ overnight up to the Hunter Valley. Why only one night? Because we hadn’t been away with the kids before and now that we know what champs they all can be (no tantrums, no crying, heavenly!) we’re planning a longer trip away! … Read More →
In case y’all don’t follow me on twitter, facebook, instagram or um, you’ve been under a rock, you would have known that I was in Townsville last weekend helping my baby niece celebrate her very first birthday Well today is her actual birthday, Friday the lucky thirteenth! She celebrated in style with a strawberry cupcake … Read More →
I know this is a food blog and not a baby blog but seriously, have you ever seen anyone eat with so much passion? I, for one, have not. Anyway, I’m flying home to Sydney tonight and bright and early Friday morning, we’re off to Townsville to see my brother, sis-in-law and most importantly, to … Read More →
Another year has come and gone in the blink of an eye and here I find myself sitting on a beach. Not a bad way to end the year, really, and certainly not the way we’ve spent the last four new years. What a year 2011 has been, and I hope that your year has been … Read More →
It all started five years ago. Our eyes met over a steaming dish of pad thai… ok I lie, that would be all too convenient, wouldn’t it? I have in my head various versions of how “it all started”. I mean, I’ve known Panu for years, we worked at the same company but it didn’t … Read More →
Last Saturday, we celebrated the birthday of one of my favourite little people: my buddy, Valentin Segura, turned 1! What a hard year he’s had, what with being a little blob and having to learn to crawl and stuff. I mean, life’s tough. So we celebrated his hard work with a BBQ! And not just … Read More →
I don’t often win at anything. Although I’m totally kiasu, by nature that means I never lose, but I don’t ever really win either. Don’t get confused now, the situations I engage in often involve more than two people. So there’s a winner, there’s a loser and then there’s me. And except for that one … Read More →
On Saturday, my friends Brendon and Christine hosted a most fabulous BBQ down in the ghetto. Well, the term “ghetto” is used relatively here. Basically, they pretty much live across the street from the Ministry of Sound nightclub and back in my hey day (because yes I am old), that minuscule proximity to MOS would have totally … Read More →
There’s something about getting all dressed up that still makes the girlie girl hidden deep within me flutter with excitement. I never wear proper dresses and heels in London (work clothes don’t count). The walking, the raining, the cobbled streets… unless you actually want to sprain your ankle or god forbid, to damage the perfectly … Read More →
organic porridge with brown sugar, banana & honey When Panu’s out of town, I get up to a whole bunch of no good. Like, I bake a batch of brownies and eat half of them myself. I watch The Hills on repeat, UP LOUD, and just to be really naughty, I even sleep on his … Read More →
The first thing you notice about the new Giraffe Bar & Grill in Soho is that there ain’t no space to park your buggy. Unlike the rest of its Giraffe clan – whose main mission I think is to either induce a violent fit of cluckiness or well, nausea – this Giraffe is aimed at those … Read More →
When someone suggested we have a “sticks” themed pot luck lunch, it piqued my curiosity. Fun with sticks? Sticks? Really? Really. Not that I am opposed to sticks. Growing up in Australia, our BBQ was fired up on an almost weekly basis so meat on sticks featured heavily in my weekly food diary. Not that … Read More →
Today is my last day in Brisbane! And so it seems appropriate that I share with you one of my favourite places in this entire city: Cold Rock Ice Creamery. They have macadamia nut ice cream. They have cookie dough. They smash it together. LOVE. How does it work exactly? Well, it’s not too complicated. Following Cold … Read More →
Sometimes we have to be grateful for the big things in life. Like winning a holiday. Sometimes we have to be grateful for the small things in life. Like being able to see, smell, touch, talk… just being. Sometimes, we have to be grateful for the things we often aren’t grateful for. Like our parents. … Read More →
It’s Monday and I am officially back in London. “Officially” because “unofficially” I arrived about this time yesterday but was so exhausted and having been away two months (but mainly because my brain was mush from exhaustion), everything felt surreal and I didn’t feel as though I was really back. But today is Monday, a … Read More →
There’s always that one dish that you request when you go home to see your parents. One favourite dish that you crave but can’t seem to recreate. For me it’s my mum’s fish curry with okra (and sometimes eggplant, but unfortunately not this time). This was tonight’s dinner! I LOVE IT. ps. I just noticed … Read More →
Gong Xi Fa Chai, my homies! I don’t really know how to begin this post. The only word that comes to mind right now is EPIC, but that would make for a very short post, and rather unlike me to not chatter away, so I’ll try a little harder. So here goes. Last Saturday, Mowie and … Read More →
I very so unkindly brought the London weather to LA last week (sorry y’all) but there was one day when the rain let up and Panu and I headed straight for Venice Beach. Anyway, seeing as I super miss Panu right now (I’m in Sydney, he’s in London) I thought I’d post up my little … Read More →
Every friendship has a story. Where you met, how you met, why you “gel” and why, after all these years, this person is still particularly special in this minuscule fleck of existence that you call your life. I have a few such people in my little life, one of them is Loreen. Hi, this is Loreen … Read More →
This is my hometown. I grew up in Brisbane, went to school there, my parents still live there, and now the whole city is flooded Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you will have seen the disaster zone in SE Queensland – mainly Toowoomba and Brisbane – where heavy rainfall has resulted in flash … Read More →
I’ve talked about my co-worker friend Sam a couple of times in the last few posts. She took me for the first and best Philly cheese steak hoagie, and then to the first and best pizza in New York. Well, Sam has truly blasted herself into the realm of best foodie friend EVER because this … Read More →
Today is our four year anniversary. For you long-timers out there I know this is like nothing, but for me, it’s a dead set record. We’ve had some amazing times over the past four years and I was trawling through old photos trying to find one good one to share. It’s kind of difficult when … Read More →