A muddledy mixture, many done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...

Cats and Other Animals

Mostly and firmly on the side of cuteness :)

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Mostly done for or inspired by challenges. As always, take if you want, text can be added (or probably changed) if you want, or you can just (I hope) enjoy the pretties...

Farscape

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Sweet chilli & coconut chicken.

Speaking as I was of recipes (well, cookbooks...) this is my absolute favourite meal; Sis kindly scribbled it out so I could share it with the people at work, and now... you :) She says it's easy, all I know is it's glorious, so in her own words...

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Old cookbooks (and newer, history-themed ones too)

My mother owned the Australian Womens Weekly Cookery in Colour when I was a little girl.

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Vegemite

This probably should have been done on Australia Day an' all...

My first trip overseas (okay, the family came over from overseas, but I was all of five at the time) I thought I'd packed everything I needed, and friends, family and my workmates supplied everything they thought I'd need.

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Comfort food

... just like everyone else in the world, yes? They may all be different, but we all have those foods - not necessarily those you'd feed to guests (or anyone else), not even necessarily normal favourites, and not surprisingly very often laced more with nostalgia than epicurean excellence - that we do so reach for when we feel needy.

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Chocolataire

From the inimitable Miss Manners, in her Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium...

...She has another suggestion for you from her vast knowledge of obsolete social forms: the chocolataire. A chocolataire is similar to a tea party, except that everything is loaded with chocolate. Hot chocolate is the drink offered in winter and chocolate ( Read more... )

...pavlova.

Yes, yes, I've looked at the evidence and it was a New Zealand invention. But we adopted it so thoroughly that it has a good claim (with Vegemite, meat pies and Anzacs) to be classic Aussie comfort food. It's at every office lunch, most serious celebrations (a christening without one is to me vaguely wrong) and most clubs, bistros and ( Read more... )