A day trip to Bankstown in Sydney is an eyeful of fresh ingredients and a whole lot of culture. Even a quick trip for lunch opens up a new world. Bankstown, past and present Although Bankstown is only 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney CBD it feels like it could be several continents away. The…
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Merrylands Sydney. Food and Culture
Merrylands Sydney is a great place to visit. Sydney’s suburbs are the trips you can take while travel overseas is still out of the question. Merrylands culture Merrylands is about 40 minutes by rail west of central station. It’s an old suburb with a new face today. It was one of the earliest sites in…
Sydney Cheese Festival 2017
Sydney Cheese Festival. Free tastings talks and all the smelling you can handle! Yes I said cheese festival. Sydney Cheese Festival. BON FROMAGE. October 14-15th Sydney Carriageworks 11-6pm If you are a bit of a cheese monster then pencil in these dates because Sydney is finally getting it’s own cheese festival and its free entry. Yes…
Wine Island is back. Hello Sydney.
All aboard!! Woohoo. This must be Sydney’s most unique wine event. Just imagine sipping wine on an island right in the middle of Sydney harbour This is in third year and it promises to be bigger and better than ever. Put the timer on for Friday 10th November to Sunday 12th November 2017. ( tickets…
10 Unusual Things to do in Sydney
Whether you are a local or just planning a visit to Sydney here are 10 unusual fun things to do in Sydney that don’t involve a museum or the opera house. This may just surprise you. There are no shortage of beachside offerings in Sydney. Let’s start with a view of Bondi Beach below. Beautiful…
Chocolate Fondue: Come and see the Chocolate Festival Sydney 2015
In just two weeks’ time it is my son Skater’s 21 st birthday. How time flies. He is a chocoholic and all he wants is to get immersed in chocolate. Lucky for him that is going to be easy because on the 12th and 13th of September there is a whole weekend devoted to chocolate…
Culinary Tales
On the odd occasion that I am not rushing from work to home and cooking till the wee hours I stop to consider that I do nothing to help others. I am not happy that this is the case and I would like to be able to contribute more, especially to refugees who more often…
Oysters Spicy Maple Dressing. Sydney Fish Market
Try these Oysters Spicy Maple Dressing for an extra treat. And did you know you can do a special tour of The Sydney Fish Market? I had a very interesting morning last week. I pulled into a parking space in the dark at the Sydney Fish market. At 6am the carpark is full of vans…
Jones the Grocer, Sydney
It’s a long time since I have been to Jones the Grocer. It’s a place where we all used to buy cheese and pastries and salads to take to parties. That’s when it was in Woollahra. It’s back, in a rather large corner of Westfield CBD right in the place that Justin North or Becasse…
Organic Bread Bar
Bread is one of the things that I find very hard to resist. The homely smell of the browning crust and the crack and crackle of the knife sawing through it to the soft interior. There are few better things in life than cutting into a warm loaf and slathering it with a salty creamy…