Messages from Manila part two - typhoons and a bit of WTF!?

OK Manila is getting a bit trippy.  You may or may not have heard depending how connected you are to the news - but there's a Typhoon here at the moment.  Locally known as 'Pedring' but internationally known as 'Nesat'.   All the schools are closed, government offices are closed, and so was mine.  I've worked from the...

Messages from Manila part one

Well... I know this isn't exactly the Sunday Baking Project but it's a bit hard to post about when I left the photos back in Sydney.... Whoops. So I arrived in Manila last night. There's a few things I have to say: To the bloke I sat next to: I am not sure WHY you needed to go to the bathroom 7 times in 8 hours but my advice to you is a)see...

Some food porn for you...

I really need to get around to updating my blog roll because this certainly should be on it. The lovely Michelle Southan, Food Editor of Australian Good Taste put me on to this... good swap I think as I put her onto The Pioneer Woman Cooks. But here is Sweet Paul.   Paul is a stylist and quite reminiscent of Donna Hay actually.  But...

Seven ingredients to risottolaya!

Add this one to your meal plan.  Right now. Do not pass go.  Do not collect $200.  I saw a recipe for chicken jambalaya in the Good Food UK app and it looked amazing.  Only problem it was laced with capsicum and in our house - capsicum is poison - according to my husband. I desperately wanted to make it and considered...

What happened last weekend....

My life has never been so much like a game of tetris.  Squeezing in everything rushing, rushing rushing.  Last weekend was no exception. Some things we got up to: Spent some time in the garden: We re-planted the opera house garden - celery, tomatoes, chillies, cucumber, lettuce, carrots and zucchini - plus of course nasturtiums...

Heavenly homemade waffles.... don't kill me

My hubby rolls his eyes whenever I declare I *need* an electrical appliance.  I have a good many but I don't have pie makers or hot-dog keepers or anything like that. I am pretty practical.  But a waffle machine has been on my covet list for a while, and I finally bit the bullet and bought one. If you don't like a lot of appliances...

Sunday baking project: Chocolate pecan brownie cookies!

It's been a pretty tough couple of weeks at work.  Everyone's under time pressures.  Everyone's up against some pretty tough challenges but as stressful as this is at times it's a great workplace where people do pull together and support each other when the chips are down. You can tell the stress levels are escalating with the...