Category Archives: Food & Wine

A Sweet Escape

Posted on 21 July 2020 by sheg4184

While current news reports still place covid at the top of the list, in South Australia we have been – dare I say it? – corona free for many weeks. Although we are currently keeping the Victorians at bay, visitors … Continue reading →

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‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’

Posted on 29 June 2020 by sheg4184

While the beaches in England are chock-a-block with holiday makers – for let’s face it who can believe in the myth of a killer virus on a toasty summer day? – here in the southern hemisphere, winter has set in. … Continue reading →

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Once Upon a Time in Fiji

Posted on 16 June 2020 by sheg4184

Earlier this year there was a plan afoot to join a friend in Fiji for a significant birthday in June. Then life got in the way: hunting for a new home; moving in; Covid 19 – and like so many … Continue reading →

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Foraging for Mushrooms

Posted on 30 May 2020 by sheg4184

Caterpillar: … One side will make you grow taller… Alice: One side of what? Caterpillar: …and the other side will make you grow shorter. Alice: The other side of what? Caterpillar: The mushroom, of course! ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland … Continue reading →

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‘You’re the avocado to my toast!’

Posted on 7 March 2020 by sheg4184

“Truthfully this is one ‘recipe’ … I make and eat most often! … It’s the holy trinity of Vegenaise, avocado and salt that makes this like a favorite pair of jeans — so reliable and easy and always just what … Continue reading →

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Let Them Eat Pie!

Posted on 16 February 2020 by sheg4184

‘Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie…‘ ~ traditional nursery rhyme Back in the fourteenth century, long before fridges and freezers came into existence, there was pie. Pie crusts … Continue reading →

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Paella with a Pinch

Posted on 21 October 2019 by sheg4184

Moments away from packing our bags and heading home to Australia, we first needed to fulfill a promise made in Rome over two years ago, to meet our dear friends in the south of Spain. Airbnb provided a super little … Continue reading →

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Operation Pied Piper

Posted on 11 July 2019 by sheg4184

Remember the childhood fairy tale about a man with a flute, who lured all the children of the village away from their parents, after the townsfolk failed to honour their promise too him? With the best intentions in the world, … Continue reading →

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Of Battenberg Cake & Coronation Chicken

Posted on 3 July 2019 by sheg4184

I have spent a long morning immersed in English history in the Great Hall at Carisbrooke Castle, trying to untangle the web of European connections that is the British Royal Family. What better way, then, to blow away the cobwebs … Continue reading →

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The Glories of Garlic

Posted on 20 May 2019 by sheg4184

“Garlic used as it should be used is the soul, the divine essence, of cookery. The cook who can employ it successfully will be found to possess the delicacy of perception, the accuracy of judgment, and the dexterity of hand … Continue reading →

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