Gooood Morning from the airport! I’m so excited to be heading over for a weekend in Melbourne to visit Henry – woo hooooo! As usual we headed overseas (haha) to Waiheke for Easter and had a wonderful few days with Hoob up from uni in Wellington, and beautiful island weather to enjoy. Sadly Pog couldn’t […]
Oh my God – such wild weather in Auckland over night…and this morning! Rich is flying up from Wellington at 8:30am in gale force winds, yikes 🙁 I can’t believe I won’t be at the airport to greet him, I feel like a totally useless mother for sending a cab, but I will be shooting […]
Yesterday Nick arrived back from Shanghai, tired and a little rumpled as usual – it’s a tough gig sometimes, zooming back and forwards between countries. Usually we have a ritual of softly scrambled eggs for dinner on his first night back (along with a catch up of whatever series we happen to be watching at […]
Morning! This is a quick wee recipe that is also available in the Tuck In (gettit!?) selection over at the lovely Dish magazine. It may not look terribly exciting but is actually bloody delicious – the hot cross buns soak up all that custardy goodness so that the resulting pudding is soft and squishy with […]
Monday again already – I can’t believe it – where on earth did the weekend go? And not just Monday – it’s almost Easter!!! Before you know it we’ll be getting stuck into big slow-cooked stews and hearty soups, but before that happens, and while there is still just enough warmth to eat dinner outside, […]
Hold on to your hat – I am NOT in bed! I am actually sitting at my desk in front of my monster screen as I write this – having been for a walk, showered and baked a white chocolate brownie – and it’s only 8:25am! OK so obviously this is not a picture of […]
Good morning from my usual office (bed), currently in that desperate situation of having finished my first big mug of tea and wanting another, but being unable to will myself from under the covers and back downstairs 🙂 OK – so this recipe is like ‘whaaaat?’ why is she giving me a recipe for a […]
Goooood morning! Well it’s back to normal in that I am posting this while in bed with my morning vat mug of tea, but it is also the start of the new normal in my big ole empty nest. In this moment Rich is valiantly getting his head around his first few weeks of university […]
Sometimes the recipes I post are fresh off the plate and page to you, and some are ‘ones I prepared earlier’ – like this recipe for amazingly indulgent no-churn chocolate ice cream and espresso popsicles which I created for Fairfax before my recent big trip to Shanghai/Berlin/Amsterdam. Both recipes are pretty bloody high calorie, so […]
I can’t believe how the time has flown since we got back from overseas. I must admit I felt totally spaced out for a few days after Henry left – I think maybe I had been hanging on, keeping my sh*t together for him, then after he left I was just exhausted. Anyhoo – today […]
Whoop whoop – watching the Super Bowl with the boys – Nick and Rich, some hot dogs, Budweiser and me! 🙂 (Wish you were here too Pog, but am 100% sure you wouldn’t be watching!)
Happy Saturday to you – not this time from bed (whaaat?!), but actually from my desk at home! As you willl know if you stop by regularly, Nick and I have just returned from an epic 14 day trip to Shanghai/Berlin/Amsterdam/Berlin/Shanghai and back home to Auckland. Phew! One of the absolute highlights of my stay […]
To be completely consistent I am again posting this while lying in bed (I must be seeming like the most lazy person in the universe…), but this time it’s from Shanghai! It is -1˚ outside, windy and a bleak, cold morning, so I’m not feeling any great inclination to leap out of bed. This is […]
Good Morning – surprise, once again I am posting this while lying in bed with a morning coffee, but this time from Amsterdam! The weather outside the Canal House where I am staying is a little grim and I have developed a grotty cold during the trip – but I am still beside myself to […]