Mushroom Foraging in the Pine Forest

      There is something magical about a walk in the pine forest. Giant trees casting beautiful shadows over the forest floor with rays of sunshine breaking through and…

Passover Baking Recipes and a Festive Freekeh Salad

There are ridiculous amounts of Passover dessert ideas online, some wonderful, some quite unfortunate. So you don’t make a matzah pudding of choosing which to make, here are some wonderful…

Rainbow Chard Tart

  Last week I was doing some grocery shopping and spotted the most beautiful rainbow chard I’d ever seen. Big stripes of colour jumped out at me and said “buy…

The Edible Birds Nest: Easter Lunch

A little taste of our Easter table this year…           It was more of an Autumn inspired Easter table this year with dried hydrangeas in the place of…

Heirloom tomato wholemeal galette.

There are only a few ingredients which have the ability to be as delicious in their pure, unadulterated state as they are incorporated in a brilliant recipe. To me, the…

Sweet Sweet Love.

Last year I used Valentine’s as a day to start working on my intimate dining concept for Bligh St. Bistro and I have to say that it made me feel…

Busy Bee.

  I’ve been a busy bee of late. I’ve been catering for a few big events and hosting private dinners at Bligh St Bistro (some of which will be shared here…

Christmas in July.

  A major perk of living in the Southern Hemisphere is getting to celebrate Christmas twice, right? When the weather begins to turn and the icy chill sets in, it’s…

Vegan (for a week).

  Post Sugar-induced coma from the wonderful winter market in Annandale last weekend, I felt it totally apt to bring up our fun adventure into being Vegan (for a week)…

Painted Cookies.

My sister really hated being pregnant (this does relate back to cookies in the end, for those of you that are worried).   Instead of glowing, radiant and ‘barefoot in…