The South Coast of New South Wales 3 1/2 hours from Sydney is an idylic strip of coastal playground dotted with holiday houses. It’s still relaxed and remains a very quiet and family friendly place to rent a house. We stayed in a place called Manyana for the weekend with full intentions of cooking, walking…
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Keith Tulloch Wine
I love to go behind the scenes and visit producers This is where you feel the passion, the history and the struggle. You are briefly swept up into someone’s dream, feeling their passion and enthusiasm. It’s when I am reminded of most our connection to the earth and what it gives us, and that as…
Leleuvia Island Resort Fiji- The perfect Island
Leleuvia Island off the eastern coast of the main Island Viti Levu near Suva, is a must visit. It’s much like going to Singapore and skipping Sentosa Island or Thailand and skipping Koh Samui, you’d miss a quintessential experience. Leleuvia is much more of a Robinson Crusoe experience than 5 star resort and if you are…
A trip to Auburn
Sponsored Post I am not sure about you but the perfect day for me would be any that I spent with one of my sisters, which usually also means eating and today I am going to lunch and on a field trip to hunt down some cushions. My sister loves cushions in fact I think…
Olive Oil Semifreddo and How to become an Olive Oil Sommelier…..
This is a brilliant recipe for Olive Oil Semifreddo, Balsamic Strawberries and Black Pepper Tuilles. Olive oil makes great cakes and baked goods and even Ice Cream. This is a sponsored post full of wonderful Italian opportunities PLUS an amazing recipe using olive oil. Make an Olive Oil Semi freddo with Balsamic Strawberries and Peppered…
Fiji. Visiting Suva
They don’t call Fiji the land of smiles for no reason. This laid back land is the second biggest travel destination for Australians after Bali. There are two main islands and up to 900 smaller ones and a world of choice as far as styles of accommodation and holiday. Suva, the business of Fiji…
The Flavours of Campbelltown Food trail
I went to an incredible forum last week during a visit to Adelaide’s Tasting Australia festival. This biennial festival pulls out all the stops to showcase the amazing food and wine of South Australia. Launched in 1997 it has matured and developed, helped along the way by our growing interest in where and how…
Wild Dolphins in Fiji
The sky looked like it might meet the water and our much anticipated trip out to Moon Reef was briefly threatened. This is the only place in the world where Dolphins are known to meet and spend the day resting, playing and socializing and preparing for the next nights hunting. We rose early to drive…
The road less travelled in Fiji
The first afternoon I spent in Fiji I was surprised. I knew that the people were lovely, but I really was taken with the beauty. I have always wanted to go to Fiji but I wasn’t sure if you could move about the Island and experience what life is like for people here. Well you…
Shopping in Fiji
One of the things I love about travelling is going to the market and the local shops. I enjoy seeing what the locals buy and what the prices are like. So when I was in Fiji just recently that’s exactly what I did. I also have many blue sea and white sand photos to wave…
Eating around Port Macquarie, NSW
Eating around Port Macquarie. (and other fun things) Sometimes a road trip is all it takes to breath life back into a tired weary broken soul. That’s what I did in January. It was only a couple of days but early on Thursday morning we set off along the Pacific Highway towards Port Macquarie a…
Cooking in Suva February 2014
Cooking in Suva. Postcards and antics from a trip to Fiji. What you cook when in a foreign kitchen after visiting the markets I spent the last of January and the beginning of February in Fiji. There were fireworks galore to celebrate Chinese New Year welcoming in the year of the Horse. It was strange…
Saving Koalas. Port Macquarie
There was a lady quietly weeping as she read the story of Miracle, she was the only Koala rescued from a large group that were burned during a bushfire. They were burned to death clinging to the trees, she was the only one still alive. Her eyes were burnt closed and her ears were little…
Sicilian Food Tour of Sydney
I want to go to Sicily so badly. Each day I write recipes using Sicilian ingredients and tell people about products from Sicily at work, in my job at an Italian food importer. I got a little closer to my dream of visiting Sicily last week when I won a Sicilian Food Tour for two…
A Sydney Food Tour
One of my most favourite things to do when I arrive in a city is to go on a tour straight away. This isn’t a tour in the usual sense where you get on a bus and drive around to find one of the 7 wonders of the world or a famous building or bridge….
Malaysian Food Trip
A Malaysian Food trip There is a wonderful street in Penang called Jalan Muntri, where you will find small boutique hotels diverse coffee shops a cooking school with it’s own cafe and really interesting backpacker accommodation. The streets are quiet and the small restaurants and cafes are not like the ones you will find in…