Whew! What a week I've had - chasing work, doing evening shifts, going to interviews, & in between trying to shop, cook & clean. I'm exhausted & it all starts over again tomorrow ( Read more... )

Sorry that should be 'low sodium salt substitute'.

For the past three months I have been writing nutrition-based health articles for Suite101.com based on the latest scientific research into the cardiovascular, blood pressure and weight loss benefits of herbs and foods. I've sung the praises of garlic, dark chocolate, cocoa, oatmeal, fresh fruits ( Read more... )

The first section is yecch! Worth reading as I haven't met anything quite as awful! The rest is lovely, & a yummy recipe at the end.

Good Thymes and Bad

Not little junior Girl Guides - although Brownies and brownies definitely go together! I mean this primer on making brownies from the American Chemical Society. Bless them!

This evening I made little salmon & corn cakes, from a recipe Idle invented many years ago. I hadn't made these for about 12 years, but had held on to the recipe she'd jotted down on the back of an envelope ( Read more... )

It's a boiled fruitcake made with gluten-free flour.

Here's another view of the cake (already cut) and a glimpse of the kitchen.

Woo hoo! I have just cast off the lacy scarf after working on it this afternoon & all night, apart from breaks for Dr Who & the Iron Chef. It's looking pretty good. I am pleased with it, & I hope my friend will be too. All I have to do tomorrow is weave the ends in and sew the amethyst-like beads onto the strips of stocking stitch at either end ( Read more... )

Bananas have finally stopped being a luxury item, & even though we are in a pretty chilly winter for eastern Australia, suddenly there is a glut of bananas in the fruit & vegie shops. Not perfect bananas but on the edge of over-ripe ones. They are so cheap I don't think they can be Australian, altho' of course I hope they are ( Read more... )

Winter started with a vengeance this week, with gale force winds and heavy floods over much of the state. As well as coal tankers being driven onto the beach at Newcastle, threatening to spill fuel oil, there have been roads collapsing and flash flooding, which have resulted in the sort of holiday fatality figures we've come to expect from road ( Read more... )

This evening I made this for dinner, replacing the tomatoes with home-made plum sauce. I cut the quantity of spinach in half, but forgot to reduce all the other ingredients. Result - a whole wok full of spicy, healthy, filling but unfreezable food. No questions about what to make for lunch or dinner over the next couple of days ( Read more... )