It was catch up time with my friend Miss E last week and we were keen to head along to the newly refurbished Llama Bar. I’ll put in the disclaimer here that part of the reason I was keen to check it out was that the lovely Miss E’s other half was involved with the […]

It had been a while, but I had a Scoopon Voucher it need of some using! The added bonus of this was that when the day before the Easter break rolled around, I just wasn’t that up for cooking – already in the mini holiday spirit I suppose. So I gave the Northwood Ale House […]

When I drive straight to the gym from work I generally drive down Fitzgerald Street and have been watching over the past few months as they give the Hyde Park Hotel a much needed facelift. I’d only been there once, years and years ago and had memories of it being a bit of a drive. […]

My brother is a hard one to catch – rarely has his phone with him, doesn’t spend much time on the internet so his facebook profile doesn’t get a lot of use. So when I caught up with him and his lovely girlfriend at a family get together a few weeks back I seized the […]

I heart chocolate and love to embrace the opportunity at Easter time to try out a few recipes with a distinctly chocolate flavour. This year because of some brilliant aligning of the stars, people in Oz scored a 5-day long weekend as Easter and Anzac Day lined up. Talk about fabulous! So over those days GG and I […]

So while GG busied himself with dessert I decided to try my hand at a new recipe also. I’d recently been gifted a new cookbook and flicking through the pages came across an interesting looking salad recipe – Sesame Duck Salad. Looked tasty and different to the normal garden salads that we had during the […]

I’m a very lucky girl and recently GG said that if I picked a dessert recipe from one of my cook books that he would make it for me. I am very spoiled. So I perused many books and settled on a recipe from the Women’s Weekly Sweets Old Fashion Favourites Book – The Key […]

So the final course in our three course adventure for our parents was to tackle a creme brulee. Back in December, Santa Claus had known his audience well and a kitchen blow torch and a can of butane found its way into my stocking. So excited!! And I’ve been hanging out for an opportunity to […]

So continuing on our mega three course meal for our parents we decided to utilise the bbq for mains and bought some scotch fillet steaks, again from Mirrabooka Square, from the butchers next to the seafood store. Nice looking bits of meat.             So GG was in charge of the […]

Next month, GG and I will have been together for 3 years, so we figured it was high time that we officially introduced our parents to each other. And given the recent creation of our stunning new patio, the first official patio function was to be a parent-off of sorts. Now given that we have been […]