Food. Wine. Melbourne.
Wine, chocolate and cheese. Three of my favourite things in the universe. When they are enjoyed over a lazy afternoon in the Yarra Valley, life is approaching perfection. This week I had the opportunity to take a visiting Brisbane friend to the Yarra Valley, one of Australia’s oldest (and best) wine regions. The Yarra Valley […] Read more…
This year Easter has arrived under a veil of controversy. It seems that Cadbury had the audacity to change the chocolate in its Creme Eggs to Cadbury milk chocolate, from Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate. No longer do we get our glass and a half of full cream milk (in every 200g block) wrapped around the gooey, […] Read more…
Four years ago today, my beat-up old Nissan Pulsar jiggled and slid its way through Melbourne’s cobbled, tram-tracked streets for the first time. The city I had fallen in love with in 2004 and visited many times since was now my home and I was so damned excited. But cities lose their magic when you […] Read more…
If yours is one of the many wonderful blogs I read, I must apologise for my comments of late being a bit ‘woe is me’. I am fronting up to my next major exam (fortified wines) and have had a heck of a lot of stress at work, all at the same time. I am […] Read more…
You have eaten well all week: avoided sugar, drunk sludgy odd-coloured smoothies for breakfast, lunched on salads and even cut back on the booze; but it’s Sunday night and you are just hankering for something sweet. There’s a packet of Tim Tams in the cupboard, but you know that if you open it you will […] Read more…