When I heard that Baz Luhrmann was doing a movie version of The Great Gatsby , I knew that I was inevitably going to be drawn into all of the hype… I wouldn’t be able to help myself… to me, this man is pure genius and everything he touches feels like it has been personalised [...]
I always thought making cheese was really complicated… and I guess, well yes it is, how I had it in my mind… My idea of cheese making was perhaps a little more romanticised than it should be… cows grazing peacefully in the back paddock, me wearing my Heidi kit-out and milking my cow in the [...]
I am a huge fan of Anthony Capella and his fabulously charming foodie fables, The Food of Love, The Various Flavours of Coffee and The Empress of Ice Cream, all amongst my favourite foodie reads. So when I read that he had just released a new book, I didn’t even bother reading the blurb as I [...]
So fancy yourself a bit of an artist… or not? Well this might be of interest… I love something a bit different and while I am not the greatest of artists myself, I love to appreciate the art of others, art in the making and sometimes even the art of just being. So when I [...]
I recently had the pleasure of enjoying the a cooking class focusing on the ever divine truffle at The Golden Pig Food & Wine School in Brisbane. While there a number of fabulous dishes with the magic ingredient… I could help but be particularly enraptured with this dish… purely because of the truffle butter and [...]
I have never been one for New Year’s resolutions, but with a new year about to begin, I always like to start it off in a positive light and then hope that I can maintain that ‘light’ right through until the end of the year. As the Christmas season would have it, I saw myself [...]
Now… I admit it… when it comes to shoes, I have little or no will power. The discovery of a hot pair of shoes will often leave me wanting… until I ultimately have. There have been many (read MANY) times I have found myself scouring shoe shops to find the ULTIMATE pair of hot heels [...]
With winter just around the corner, there have been some funky knits hitting the racks… while they will do little to keep you warm… they look hot… I’ve never really been one for being that practical, so that suits me just fine… Most of these are available through boohoo.com which offers free shipping to Australia... First up [...]
