Not So Mellow Yellow…

I'm not sure about you, but I LOVE the colour yellow! I always have! As a little girl I shunned pink, and turned to yellow. I LOVED being surrounded by it. It made me feel good. It made me feel happy. SO much so that I painted my ENTIRE room yellow (thanks mum and dad!) [...]

2017-08-20T11:34:57+00:00April 9th, 2013|

British India – Controller

Lovin’ this Melbourne based indie band… and nothing like a new album, Controller - British India to be re-commit my love. British India have been around since 2004 and their fourth album has fulfilled all expectations… as far as I am concerned these guys just keep getting better and better. It didn’t take me long [...]

2017-08-22T13:48:45+00:00April 9th, 2013|

Issan Chicken with Chilli Tamarind Sauce

This is another fabulous recipe shared by Katrina Ryan from The Golden Pig Food & Wine School.Ā  A Thai dish, this was featured as part of the Vietnamese cooking class I attended, the beautiful tangy chicken complementing the other dishes wonderfully. [divider] Ingredients: 4 chicken marylands 8 cloves garlic
 3 stalks lemongrass white part only, [...]

2017-08-22T10:38:39+00:00April 7th, 2013|

Vietnamese Sausage

I love the concept of ā€˜nose to tail’ cooking and Freestyle Escape Cooking School has hosted a number of these classes, one of which I attended where ā€˜noes to tail’ specialist Peter Wolfe cooked up this fabulous, and insanely simple Vietnamese sausage, and… has been kind enough to share the recipe… [divider] Ingredients 700gms lean [...]

2017-08-22T10:39:08+00:00April 7th, 2013|

Chilled Spring Pea Soup with Minted Yoghurt, Pea Mousse, Pickled Cherries, Tea Smoked Duck Breast, finished with Black Olive Oil

I was recently treated to a fabulous lunch at Donovan’s in St. Kilda. Gail was kind enough to ask chef’s Adam Draper and Emma D'Alessandro to share this fabulous recipe. Now be warned… this recipe is slightly on the complicated side, but so insanely worth the effort, and it adds a little drama to the [...]

2017-08-20T11:40:02+00:00April 7th, 2013|

the heavenly fragrance of Angel…

I don’t know what it is that makes us connect with perfumes in the way that we do. Everyone has their own individual fragrance and personal reason for connecting with that fragrance.Ā  That connection may be a memory, a place, a person, or quite simply the fragrance… or superficially… the bottle or packaging. My favourite, [...]

2017-08-20T11:42:30+00:00April 1st, 2013|
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