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That other problem
"Of course, you could wait to eat until after the sun goes down, if you have the backbone." Zoe Williams/The Guardian This is a problem...
Jan 30
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To plan or not to plan
"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see." Winston Churchill I have a busy week ahead of me: a...
Jan 20
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So Christmas is coming ...
"Humans need fantasy to be human, to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape." Terry Pratchett The quote above...
Dec 15, 2024
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Do you plan a week's meals?
"Is "planning" this stuff just for people who need another thing to make their life more difficult?" dethwatch/Reddit I have just spent...
Aug 9, 2024
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Planning for a birthday party
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." Gloria...
Jun 18, 2024
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An empty week
"One seventh of your life is spent on Monday." Aldous Huxley Actually it is now Tuesday, which demonstrates some of what I was going to...
May 28, 2024
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Christmas was, Christmas is ...
"We've reached the most wonderful time of year" Coles Magazine "Christmas magic exists in the little things doesn't it?" Woolworths...
Dec 18, 2023
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My grandchildren didn't eat the sausages
"I live in fear of the phrase "just enough". I regard just enough as nowhere near enough. Just enough means too little. It means one...
Oct 28, 2023
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The challenge of feeding families
"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by...
Oct 7, 2023
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Serve with?
I said I would, and tonight is the night that I am going to cook Ottolenghi's Double lemon chicken with cheat's preserved lemon. It's...
Oct 13, 2022
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Normality - a Coles shop
This is our second day back in Melbourne and today we did a biggish shop. Yesterday we shopped but only for what we immediately needed -...
Sep 22, 2022
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Is your freezer your friend or enemy?
"much insight can be gained when having a rummage through a person's freezer." Shelf Love Which is a bit of a worry if you rummaged...
Jan 22, 2022
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My pissaladière story
"just add spring sunshine and a glass of wine" Andrew McConnell Tonight my local book group is meeting to choose our books for next year....
Dec 1, 2021
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What's for dinner?
"We have to stop seeing cooking as a problem when it's actually a solution." Adam Liaw I have to say that I am totally uninspired today....
Aug 27, 2021
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Delia to the rescue
"Formal dinners are over, but casual cooking for friends throws up a new set of dilemmas." Tony Naylor My mind is currently preoccupied...
May 15, 2021
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Is your fridge big enough?
"The appliance they illustrated the rule with was so comically clean and colour-coordinated, you wonder who can live – and shop and cook...
Apr 12, 2021
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Bring a plate
"Yes, bring a plate is an Aussie thing, but what does it mean? According to the Australian National University’s ‘Meanings and origins of...
Mar 30, 2021
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Deciding on dinner
"A meal plan should not dictate your life." Tony Naylor Every day everyone has to confront the issue of what to cook for dinner. Well...
Feb 28, 2021
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