I love a bowl of good food – sometimes called an abundance bowl or bountiful bowl, or what I like to call a balance bowl. Filled with natural goodness, for a nicely balanced lifestyle!! I try to make everything as seasonal as possible, but there are a few staples I will always have in the…
Category: Dinner
How I Lost Weight
So, here I am, telling you my secret. Not from a scientific study, not from research, not from observation. This is simply my life. AND ITS SCRUMPTIOUS! When I was diagnosed with gestation diabetes, I was smashing the food. I’d put on so much weight during the first half of my pregnancy – I mean,…
Seafood, Seafood, Seeeaaaa-food!
I’ve always maintained my daughter has a SEE-food diet, to the extent that she begs for food from strangers – literally! But I’d much rather talk about the amazing SEA-food my parents brought home from their holiday!!! Yummmm! Green prawns, flathead, whiting, baby octopus, cuttlefish, just to name a few! All of which, I am…
Friday Night Tradition
When friends of ours got us a pasta maker for our wedding, little did they know what they were starting. I immediately fell in love with it and it became a weekly habit in our household – homemade pasta on Friday nights. Now, supposedly, pasta is not good for you. But the Mediterranean diet (vegetables,…
Mushrooms Revisited
With both my pregnancies I was iron deficient. My doctor told me “mushrooms, eggs and green leafy vegetables”. My doctor was brilliant, so what she said was gospel, and that was how I started to eat. My husband was still playing football during my pregnancies(and still is), which left me to my own devices two…
The Extra Steak
Have you purchased a packet of steak, and there’s one steak too many? What do you do with that one extra steak? Saturday night, my husband ditched footy awards so I prepared a lovely, romantic dinner with the expectation our eldest would crash after footy and the little one never plays up. Epic failure! This…
Kibble? Huh?
Okay – what is kibble and what do you do with it? I never actually knew what kibble was. Effectively, it’s just some type of food that is chopped-up coarsely. In this case, lupins. Good to know. Still, what do you do with it? Well, as I was thinking where this kibble would land me,…
Broccoli Harvest
As a lover of fine food coupled with everyday living, about two years ago I started a kitchen garden. My thumbs are a very dry and dull shade of brown – everything I plant tends to die. My grandparents on the other hand are not only phenomenal gardeners, they’re entirely self-sufficient, as in, they actually…