I’m starting a series on camp food recipes as we transition into warmer climate in Australia and we plan to get ready for the great outdoors. I do like being outdoors, in the country or regions in natural landscape, away from the cities for a long weekend break. I remember when I did a 4 day hike along…
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Drunken Chilli Prawn, Basil and Rocket Pesto Spaghetti with Asparagus
We normally associate drunken prawns with Asian food where the prawn or shrimps are cooked in Chinese or rice wine. I westernised this version for my pasta recipe and cooked my fresh green prawns in dry white wine which I got from Dan Murphy’s. I wasn’t sure which dry white cooking wine to get…
Things to See, Taste and Do in & around the Banyan Tree Phuket resort
“You’ll love Phuket. It’s not only beautiful. The Thai people understand excellence in service. They think of every little bit of detail”, a couple I sat with at a friend’s recent wedding reception said to me who recently returned from a trip to Phuket in Thailand. I started to write this article in the final…
Vivid Sydney 2017 : Taronga Centre & The View Restaurant
After not having been to Taronga Zoo for years (probably since my teens as far as I can remember), I’ve been to Taronga Zoo twice now in the space of three months. By day, it was wonderful to see and hear the animals, where their characters can be observed if you linger long enough at…
Mayfield Gardern and Central West, NSW :: Things to see, taste and do
When the NSW Tourism Minister Adam Marshall said to me a couple of weeks ago at the Mercedes Benz Australia Fashion Week 2017 launch party that regional NSW has a lot to offer and there is so much to see, I believe him. Too often we think of going on holidays as hopping on a…
Recipe :: How to make ANZAC biscuits
I read some of the old war stories on ANZAC day that the universities like Monash publishes. Some are quite intense stories of pain and suffering and makes you feel lucky we live in where we are in the world today. The history of the ANZAC biscuit is interesting though. And it’s an ANZAC biscuit not cookie…
I’ll order a salad, please … MD Provodores and Sydney Markets
“I rather my customers complain about price than quality”, Mouhamad of MD Provodores tells me as we walked along A shed in Sydney Markets at 7am on a Wednesday morning. “Jenny, have you seen one of these before?” as we stopped at one of the agents in the sheds who sold a variety of tomatoes….
Travel diaries :: Long Weekend Away: Things to See, Taste and Do on Norfolk Island
As we landed on Norfolk Island on board an Air New Zealand flight from Sydney, I saw the vastness of emerald green pastures, rugged earth, bottle green pines and surrounding turquoise bays meeting the metallic deep seas of the South Pacific Ocean and oh, a local cow, briefly looked up at the plane and then…
Bistro Remy takes you to France without leaving Sydney :: The Langham, Sydney
It is pleasing to see Sydney’s finest hotels reinventing their restaurants and making them more accessible to local residents and neighbouring office workers in terms of quality dishes using fine quality Australian produce but without the luxury prices. I was invited to a lunch last Wednesday for the opening of the new Bistro Remy of…
The Westin Sydney Sunday Brunch
Sundays are my sacred days for rest and recovery. As I work in the city during the week I usually don’t venture out to the city on the weekends all that much but I would not say no to a Sunday brunch experience at the Mosaic at The Westin Sydney. We turned up at 12.30pm,…