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I’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 […]
More2 days. 200 Kilometres. 1 epic ride. Participating in the Rio Tinto Ride to Conquer Cancer has been described as one of the more ‘fun, exhilarating and rewarding’ ways to help fight cancer—a disease which will affect one-in-two Australians. It’s also the way most likely to result in a ridiculously bruised and sore butt and a feeling […]
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 […]
MoreThis is Michelle. ‘Mich’ to her loved ones. She is mum to Finnigan, 4, and Eloise, almost 2, and last year she celebrated her 40th birthday. An architect by trade, she is from the United States originally, and moved to Australia with her husband in 2009. When she isn’t hanging out with her family, Mich loves visiting art museums […]
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 […]
MoreWhile cleaning out my parents’ house ahead of their recent move back to the northside of Brisbane, I stumbled across a stash of recipe books. There were books for every occasion; barbecues, baking, biscuits and bread. There was even one on potatoes. who knew the humble spud had its own recipe book? There were books […]
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