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To steal some lyrics from Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, “It’s a new day. It’s a new year. It’s a new life. And I’m feeling good.” Now that we are almost two weeks into the new year, I am working on putting together this year’s bucket list. While I’m pretty sure I can’t take 10 overseas holidays this year, […]
MoreAccording to the New York Times, the first food truck was opened by a Walter Scott in 1872 when he cut windows into a small covered wagon and parked it in front of a local newspaper office in Providence, Rhode Island, and sold sandwiches, coffee and pies to the journalists working late. Once reserved for […]
MoreI’m halfway through a 30 day pilates challenge with Studio Pilates and injuries limited my visits in the first two weeks of the challenge so I feel I’m running a bit behind the other participants. Keen to catch up, I’m now booked in to classes six days a week until early September and I’ve decided to […]
MoreChocolatier Jacques Torres famously said: “Life is short. Eat dessert first.” This recipe from Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat’s head chef Hermann Schafellner will make you want to do just that and the best part is it’s good for you—not only does it involve healthy, natural ingredients but it’s also dairy and gluten-free making it great for those […]
More“Look at the stars, look how they shine for you; and everything you do, yeah they were all yellow.” —Coldplay— While Australian winters aren’t quite as dark, wet and grey as those faced by the northern hemisphere, it’s still nice to inject a splash of warmth and sunshine into your life when it’s cold outside. If, like […]
MoreWarning: Do not read this post while hungry. Urban dictionary describes food porn as “taking mouth-watering pictures of delicious food and proliferating them throughout various social media websites as status updates, thus tempting all those not even currently hungry into getting food-horny and blowing all of their heroic dieting efforts to hell”. And this post is […]
More“The Parisian macaron is a snobby-but-scrumptious little treat that has lately become a vogue frontrunner in the ongoing dessert popularity contest.” —The Lost Girls— Last week, fueled by a desire to step outside my baking comfort zone (and to be a total show-off at an upcoming hen’s night), I decided to try my hand […]
MoreWhen I was a kid, there was one main thing that separated birthday parties from everyday life—chocolate crackles. According to the Australian Food History timeline, the earliest Chocolate Crackles recipe was printed in an advertisement in the Australian Women’s Weekly on 18 December 1937. It was placed by Edible Oil Industries, a subsidiary of Unilever, […]
MoreAs Bart Simpson so aptly pointed out, “You don’t win friends with salad.” And he has a point, at least as far as I’m concerned, because I will always choose a burger over a salad. ALWAYS. But late last year, on a trip to Coolum for my best friend’s wedding, I willing chose to have […]
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