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Welcome to Pebbles + Pomegranate Seeds! Pebbles + Pomegranate Seeds is my food, travel and lifestyle blog. As a published author, restaurant reviewer, photographer and prolific blogger, Pebbles + Pomegranate Seeds is where I share what I have been up to. I hope you enjoy my stories of fabulous foodie finds, travel destinations, great walks, relaxing stops, farm visit, recipes and sometime just a bit of totally unrelated whimsy.
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“happiness held is the seed,
happiness shared is the flower”
John Harrison
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KI Spirits… Kangaroo Island gin paradise
A visit to Kangaroo Island goes hand in hand with visiting KI Spirits. If you [...]
Cape Byron Distillery… macadamia nuts and gin… match made in Gin heaven
With Easter holidays just around the corner, I thought I might put forth a suggestion [...]
Hinterland Farm To Fork Experience – a great day of food and beer with Sunshine Coast Craft Beer Tours
I love a good food tour. I also love a good brewery tour. Combine the [...]
things I heart…
Peonies… the most beautiful wedding flower of them all!
I have a favourite flower… well, that is actually not quite true, I have a [...]
All I want for Christmas is a… donkey?
I recently had the opportunity to visit a number of producers while working on a [...]
Stories of my Childhood -The Nürnberger Trichter
I recently visited my dad and when scouring through the bookshelves, as I always do [...]
between the lines…
Eat Drink and be Straddie… tales and tastes from an island in the sun
It is no secret, I love a good book. I love it even more when [...]
Love and Other Dangerous Chemicals – Anthony Capella
I am a huge fan of Anthony Capella and his fabulously charming foodie fables, The Food [...]
The Last Chinese Chef
I hate to say it, but I have never really been that much of a [...]
recipes
Oyster & Mussel Chowder
This Oyster and Mussel Chowder was kindly supplied by Janet Fleming on our recent visit [...]
Wasabi Cured Kingfish Recipes
I love curing fish. I have previously posted some recipes of some cured kingfish, but [...]
Tempura Onion Flowers
My recent visit to The Falls Farm saw me come home with a bunch of [...]
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Samaria Farm rosewater distillation workshop… the ambrosial rosewater of the damask rose…
North East Victoria has many wonderful hidden treasures, but visiting the ambrosial damask rose gardens of Samaria Farm just out of Benalla for a Rosewater Distillation Workshop, would have to be the most special of [...]
KI Spirits… Kangaroo Island gin paradise
A visit to Kangaroo Island goes hand in hand with visiting KI Spirits. If you visit Kangaroo Island without visiting the latter, then you really haven’t visited at all. As my readers would already know, [...]
Cape Byron Distillery… macadamia nuts and gin… match made in Gin heaven
With Easter holidays just around the corner, I thought I might put forth a suggestion for some adult entertainment of the gin kind… I love discovering what a region has to offer, and love even [...]
Hinterland Farm To Fork Experience – a great day of food and beer with Sunshine Coast Craft Beer Tours
I love a good food tour. I also love a good brewery tour. Combine the two and you have the Hinterland Farm to Fork Experience by Sunshine Coast Craft Beer Tours, and you really do [...]
Honouring traditional artisan sourdough baking – Ten Acres – best bread ever!
I grew up eating sourdough, and sourdough rye. It was pretty much the only type of bread we ate in my family. In my early school years I used to squirm every time I opened [...]
Lord Byron Distillery… A ‘spiritual’ journey with provenance – Byron Bay’s newest distillery
Lord Byron Distillery is one of those distillery stories I aspire to… We often reflect on provenance when it comes to our food. Who grows it, the ethics of animal husbandry, organic, chemical free, the [...]
FAN – Food Agribusiness Network Social Media Workshop – Sophie Hansen visits Kandanga Farm Store
I have to say, I really enjoyed yesterday’s FAN (Food Agribusiness Network) Workshop with the wonderfully insightful Sophie Hansen at Kandanga Farm Store / Kandanga Kitchen. Sophie Hansen led a workshop on photography and food [...]
Red Hill Brewery… annual hop harvest on the Mornington Peninsula
Hops. I wonder who it was that first made the connection that resulted in this humble herb’s flower becoming the primary ingredient of beer. Living on the Sunshine Coast, hops is not something that is [...]
Bass & Flinders Gin Masterclass… mastering the art of gin making, or trying to…
It is no secret that I love gin. I like to think that I loved gin way before it became fashionable to love gin. Gin was always my go-to drink; G&T. #yesplease I am not [...]
Lychee Divine… sensational lychee liqueurs from the Fraser Coast
Regional Foodie visits the home of Lychee Divine; lychee growers and producers of some sensational lychee liqueurs and wines, produced on the Fraser Coast. The Sunshine Coast boasts many wonderful tropical fruits, and a favourite [...]
Noosa Earth – Urban Oyster Mushroom Farming at its best – FAN Farm Visit
Regional Foodie makes an onsite visit to Noosaville’s most popular urban farm, oyster mushroom growers, Noosa Earth, as part of FAN’s (Food and Agribusiness Network) farm and factory tours for network members. Truth be known, [...]
Waiheke Island – Glorious Countryside, Sensational food and Fabulous Wines
Over the years I have visited New Zealand a number of times, which made it all the more wondrous to me that I had never heard of Waiheke Island. Waiheke Island is probably one of [...]