Hello and good Monday-back-to-work morning to you! I am just psyching myself up for the mountain of work I need to get through before flying to Shanghai/Berlin/Amsterdam in about 10 days, and in the meantime breathing through the fact that Henry is mid-pack for his big move to Melbourne and Rich is filling in time […]
Hellooooooo from Waiheke Island, New Zealand. I am taking (literally) two minutes to quickly post this on my way to catch the ferry for a doctor’s appointment in town. (Thank you Waiheke library for the kind use of your free wifi.) So, hurrah, stitches out today, and then I’m back out to the island to […]
Just sitting here feeling very bah-hum-buggy with a sore back thanks to the melanoma wide-excision yesterday – I am one of those people who rushes around at a million miles an hour, so having to move cautiously is anathema to me. However being kind of chair bound has meant that I have caught up on […]
Goooooood evening, good evening, good evening (as Stephen Fry would say) – this is just a super easy soup recipe I thought I’d quickly pop up on a whim. Last night Rich and I headed off to his final school prize-giving and graduation ceremony, followed by a grad dinner. It was such a fun night, […]
Well by crikey this has been a long time coming – in my defense I have been drowning in work lately – cool stuff too, for Sileni wines and Barkers range of sauces, jams, syrups etc, in addition to my regular Dish and Fairfax stuff. Also – bit of a crap week last week, I […]
Last night as I was writing this my mother was preparing the ingredients to make the Spring Super Salad which she took as an entree for dinner with friends. That doesn’t sound very remarkable unless you already know from reading my About Me page that Mum absolutely hates cooking, and always has. I find it […]
Feeling in a reflective mood this morning – blogging really is a bit of a weird thing – who sits at home in front of a computer sending bits of themselves out into the universe? I originally started From the Kitchen years ago as a way to practice my photography and share some of my […]
Yay – I can’t believe I have finally had the chance to make this recipe which I have been thinking about doing for ages! Last night I had a lovely group of long-standing (can’t say ‘old’) friends for dinner – and after nibbles of mexican-spiced corn and pepper arancini stuffed with mozzarella (obviously not a […]
What happens when you take the kind of mincey, chorizo-y, beaney filling that you would normally roll up in tortillas or slather over nacho chips…and stick it in a pie? This my friends – a cowboy pie, not as the name would suggest, actually filled with cowboys… As I sit here it is 5:30am, I […]
Lemon tart is my absolute favourite dessert for so many reasons – and as you can see I got a leeeetle bit carried away taking the pics! In my defence, these days I don’t get much of a chance to shoot something purely for the blog, so I thought I may as well keep playing! […]
Hi all! I feel like recipes have been a bit few and far between lately, which is kind of a mixed blessing – it’s solely due to the fact that I have been working so much. I am flat out for the rest of August and into September, but I am going to schedule a […]
Hello – God it feels like ages since I had the chance to post anything that wasn’t work-related (apart from the pizza last week, and not that its a bad thing to be posting work related stuff, but sometimes I really just like to post what’s in my head at the moment, you know?). Anyhoo […]
Well here we all are again then – some of us anyway! We flew back in from Tokyo yesterday morning and zombied around the house, washed mountains of clothes, picked up the dogs from the kennels and went to the supermarket – all that catch up stuff – the only abnormal thing was there were […]
Hi all, the countdown continues:) It has been so lovely having Henry and Josh in Auckland – they are still both sound asleep after a great night out to dinner last night – such a treat to have Nick, Rich and Lil there too, a rare occasion to get all six of us around a […]