Do you have a signature dish? Something people ask you to make?
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Do you have a signature dish? Something people ask you to make?
Posted on Monday, 31 August 2009 at 03:59 PM in Sweet Treats | Permalink | Comments (9)
Posted on Friday, 28 August 2009 at 09:10 PM in Kid's Activites | Permalink | Comments (2)
I'd like you to meet my new biscuit! We might call it, I don't know, Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Biscuit?
Posted on Thursday, 27 August 2009 at 11:00 PM in Biscuits | Permalink | Comments (4)
...when you invent a biscuit! With peanut butter in it!
Posted on Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 08:48 PM in Family | Permalink | Comments (1)
So I first thought about this when I read a post by Mia Freedman here about how much she adored this book:
The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood. It changed her life.
Huh? The only way it changed my life was that it took the place of the worst christmas present I've ever bought for anyone, particularly my beloved sister in law, Rachel. She was so polite. I kept asking her about it, I was so keen to read it after she'd finished. It had all these interviews with fabulous women about balancing their different arts and child rearing. I thought it would be great. TOTALLY depressing. Mostly all about the impossibility of balance. How if you want to do anything creative DO IT BEFORE YOU HAVE KIDS. Or after they leave home. EXCELLENT christmas gift for someone with a two month old.
I love Mia Freedman. Maybe I could send her a book that might really change her life.
This one, my favourite of all time, a children's book of course:
The Little Bookroom. The sweetest set of stories ever written. I was given this book when I was about 8 years old and have loved it ever since. It was out of print, impossible to get, and I looked for it again just recently on Amazon for a friend and found it's available. I should buy another copy, mine is a paperback that I left out in the rain when I was 10 and it's held together by elastic bands. You can actually click here for a reproduction of the first two stories in Google Books!
It's a big call, right. Books that change your life. I'd like to hear yours.
I have old favourites, mostly met in childhood, the Narnia series, Anne of Green Gables, anything by Sharon Penman.
I have perennial favourites, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons and things I've read in the last couple of years that were brilliant, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Mostly I forget. I read about a novel a week and I've probably read about 20 this year and I can barely remember the last five until they come up in conversation.
Any books that actually changed my life? I can think of things I was reading at critical points in my life, Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, The Passion by Jeanette Winterson... but I haven't read any JW since about 1995. What about you? BIG books in your life?
xxx
Posted on Tuesday, 25 August 2009 at 09:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Oh the marvellousness of the ANZAC biscuit!!
Posted on Monday, 24 August 2009 at 09:57 PM in Biscuits | Permalink | Comments (0)
Is it possible? Is THIS the perfect custard?
Posted on Friday, 21 August 2009 at 05:04 PM in Dessert | Permalink | Comments (7)
Except that's not true. Is it.
Posted on Thursday, 20 August 2009 at 10:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Hi! I know some of you have already found it but just wanted to draw your attention to the new Recipe Index page on the right hand side bar. It's a work in progress, I'll categorise it so it's easier to use, but at least it's a start!
Posted on Wednesday, 19 August 2009 at 07:52 PM in Family, Favourite Things, Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome | Permalink | Comments (9)
Well OK, not ACTUALLY broccoli, but broccoli soup!
Posted on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 at 08:56 PM in Soups | Permalink | Comments (2)