I was going to say that this is a slightly lazy option this week, but LET’S BE HONEST a) it took me three hours to make and b) why is creativity and making things any less valuable if it’s something practical instead of something Art? Hmm?!?! HA. Right. So. Today we have marmalade, made from […]
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Over the weekend I was hired to cater for a friend-of-a-friend’s birthday party, grazing platter style. It totally counts as making, even though I made zero food (thanks, supermarket!), because the whole point of a grazing table is the aesthetics! Here’s what I ended up with, from left to right across the table: It was
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Woohoo! Welcome to this month’s Cook With Amy, a random project I started to a) keep me entertained while cooking in the kitchen the weeks my Spousal Person is away, and b) to start keeping track of how long recipes REALLY take to cook! This month’s instalment is the shortest yet: the potato and leek
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If I have to hear one more celebrity chef tell me that this meal “only takes 15 minutes” while standing in front of a bench covered with bowls of perfectly pre-diced and -sliced ingredients, I’m going to scream. We all know it: those recipes DO NOT take 15 minutes to create. That’s why I’ve created
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So, my mum is running a high tea soon and needed suggestions for pass-the-parcel gifts (because OBVIOUSLY this is a thing you do at high tea!), and being the practical sort of person that I am (!) I suggested…. tea? 😀 There’s a local place that sells individual sachets for $1.50, which is a great
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Trying something new this week… Was chatting to friends at work last week about a new way I’m working on of organising my recipes and nightly cooking so that I don’t have to THINK about what to have for dinner, and what to shop for each week, and so on and so forth. We spiralled
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I’ve seen glimpses before of the series Back In Time For Dinner, but after a conversation with my sister this week, I’m finally sitting down to actually watch the series. I’m watching the Australian version and I can’t link to the episodes for the internationals among you, but if you live in Australia, the whole
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Last year was one of my slowest reading years for quite a while. I’m not surprised, given the frenetic pace, but it’s something I’m fixing this year, not least because my brain is threatening to melt and I really just need the recharge time. So, this school holidays, I decided to do a mini challenge
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The sitch: New GP. Went in to ask for a script thingy (words are hard) for my annual thyroid blood test, because I realised I’d forgotten to do that in January. My usual GP is the kind who a) costs money and b) is booked out 6-8 weeks in advance, so I decided to use
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Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit
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