I’ll make a deal with you. First I’m going to have a little natter about getting back into the swing of hosting after a long hiatus. Then I’m going to have a small rant. Lastly I’m going to share a charming (though a touch earnest) flourless almond cake with you- here it was deployed […]
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Ten years ago at an Oxfam fundraising dinner, The Hungry One got a little carried away. We were slightly boozed, out with our closest friends and feeling flush. We left at the end of the night with a new addition to the household. Over the past decade the tissue paper swaddled bottle of Penfolds Grange […]
There are brownie days. Days when a meek muffin leaden with flax just won’t cut it. Last week we had quite a few of them. There must have been a glitch in the universe, because somehow, David Bowie, circa 1986 as the Goblin King came and stole my child. He replaced him with a screeching, […]
I want to tell you about my favourite place in Sydney. It’s possibly my favourite place in the world. The shortlist is quite long (Cliff bars of Dubrovnik, Yountville in the Napa Valley, Avoca Beach, Ammoudi in Santorini and Wailea in Maui all make cameos). But Freshwater Beach, or more specifically, Pilu at Freshwater, is […]
It’s easy to exist in a bubble. Particularly when the sky is blue, the ocean beckons and your head is giddy because your best friend just gave birth to twin boys. When you spend a good smattering of your life tending to the whims of shin-high folk, the outside world can get smaller. Not because […]