Kale & Purple Cabbage ‘Slaw
Living with a baby is both wildly exciting and totally mundane. From a bird’s-eye perspective, each day is a repeat of the one beforehand. We wake, eat breakfast, play, W sleeps, we go out to the...
View ArticleSweet Potato Quinoa Salad with Kale Pesto
Summer in Brisbane is not for the lighthearted. By the time W wakes up from her morning nap and we get ready to go out, it’s so hot. We walk slowly down to the pool, the parasol our traveling circle...
View ArticleKale, Strawberry & Pear Salad
The night assigns us its magic task. To unravel the universe, the infinite ramifications of effects and causes, all lost in that bottomless vertigo, time. Tonight the night wants you to forget – From...
View ArticleGreen Coconut & Pineapple Smoothie
A few weeks ago S planted spinach, parsley and coriander seeds. They started sprouting just before we went down for a flying visit to Victoria, and by the time we got back were coming along quite...
View ArticleKale & Sweet Potato Salad w/ Fried Haloumi
“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark.” From A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit I had this post all ready to go last week – I just had to finish off some photo...
View ArticleAutumn Salad with Tahini-Miso Dressing
A few days ago a baby gecko was darting about the kitchen. It was the size of my pinky finger and the colour of pearl. I caught it in my cupped hands and showed it to W, who stared at it with a...
View ArticlePan-Fried Greens with Brown Rice & An Egg
It’s Monday night. The weekend just past was a busy one. I spent all of Saturday out at Beaudesert for work, getting home in time for dinner, showers, storytime with the kids, then bed. Sunday flew...
View ArticleLeek & Zucchini Frittata
I woke up today and, just like that, it is spring. The air has lost its chill, the first of the jasmine is in bloom, the sky is the clearest highest dreamiest blue. A glossy fat lizard is sun-baking...
View ArticleRoasted Cherry Tomato Penne with Kale Pesto
We are on holiday. A long overdue, blissful, wonderful holiday. We haven’t ventured far – a one hour drive north plus another almost-hour on a ferry to Stradbroke Island. Despite having lived in...
View ArticleA Beautiful Winter Coleslaw
We went out to the bush last Sunday. It turned out to be the kind of winter’s day you wish all winter’s days were like; cold and crisp, bright and just warm enough in the sunshine. W waded into the...
View ArticleBlack Rice & Passionfruit Salad
Morning finds her curled like a prawn Around a stuffed blue Pegasus, or the smallest Prawn-pink lion. Or else she’s barging Into my room, and leaning in close so It’s her hair I wake to — that coarse,...
View ArticleKale, Cauliflower & Preserved Lemon Salad
in love you have loosened yourself like sea water: I can scarcely measure the sky’s most spacious eyes and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth. – from ‘In You The Earth’, Pablo Neruda Editors...
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