Today, on 3 May, I celebrate my birthday in style with this beautiful Dior inspired cake. I wont tell you how old I’ve turned but let’s just say I’m still in my 30s (just!). I always try and reflect what I’ve achieved as I turn another year older. Well this time last year, my blog was at its…
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Baked Fish with Garlic and Coriander | Stephanie Alexander recipe
I’ve tried another one of the simple recipes from Stephanie Alexander’s The Cook’s Companion. Tonight I cooked one of her baked fish dishes for dinner. Stephanie is right: with a piece of fresh fish, a lemon in one hand and bottle of olive oil dinner is only a few minutes away. Living on the east…
Buttermilk Pancake Recipe by Stephanie Alexander
I don’t cook as much as I should. When I saw Stephanie Alexander’s The Cook’s Companion collecting dust on my shelf after it was given to me as a gift about a year ago I thought I should put it to good use. Seems like everyone is telling me that book is their ‘cooking bible’. I can…
Clubhouse Rosebery: From Turf Club to Surf Club
Did you know it was actually illegal to enter the ocean during daylight hours in Australia during the early 1900s? This law was challenged and the law was repealed but as more and more people entered the waters, more people drowned due to the inability to handle the surf conditions. Volunteers came to the rescue…
4 tips on being successful on TV camera | NIDA
I just completed an 8 week TV presenting course at NIDA. If the truth be told, I didn’t have TV presenting on my radar as a course to must do. I enrolled in Musical Theatre originally as I felt like taking dance lessons to the next level but as the course was rescheduled, I was…
The Wintergarden Bloggers’ Lunch
I love working in Sydney CBD. Being passionate about food and dining venues ensures you are very connected with Sydney, not only with what’s happening, what’s coming up, the new venues but the people you meet who you do not ordinarily encounter every day in my day job. A lunch break on a weekday is…
Food Photography from the Bowery Lane Menu
I was having lunch with a work colleague the other day at one of the establishments in the new Wintergarden complex, Bowery Lane on 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney and I introduced her to the people there and somewhat surprised she asked “How come you know the restaurant people so well?” Then it struck me, wouldn’t…
Learning never stops – TEDxSydney announces 2015 speaker program
Curiosity starts with the itch to explore. And I have that itch. A friend once said to me you have this childlike curiosity that some people lose when they become adults (probably because they get bogged down with the day to day). I read somewhere that when it comes to learning, there’s a powerful “rich…
Les Miserables Australia | Interview with Emily Langridge (Cosette)
So long as ignorance and misery remain on this earth, the story of Les Miserables will continue to resonate in the hearts and minds of a contemporary audience. The musical which played in Perth and Melbourne, is now coming to Sydney at the Capitol Theatre in March. The performance is based on the Victor Hugo’s…
Bowery Lane Launch Party | Sydney
Sydney locals were out in full force on 1 O’Connell Street in Sydney CBD last Thursday evening as Bowery Lane hosted its official launch party rolling out the red carpet in style. With a yellow New York cab pulled out in front and guests mobbed by paparazzi, Bowery Lane smoothly provided an evening of New York…