I have been thinking a lot lately about my dear Nana. It has been 4 years since she passed and probably a decade since she baked me anything. But those memories of cake, real cake, that Nana used to make, are always on the tip of my tongue. Everybody loves cake. Who doesn’t love… Read More And I thought Nana’s cake couldn’t be Beat(rix)
Eclipse: the obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer I had a favourite croissant. Of course I have favourite pastries, I worked in one of the best continental bake houses in Melbourne – AVIV– for a decade. Of course my favourite croissant was their’s… Read More The Lune Eclipse.
Are you tired of chewing through your data while you keep a watchful, but not too pervy, eye on your delicates? Chances are, if – like many hip, urban-studio squatters – you don’t have a laundry conveniently located inside your pad, you visit your local laundromat, and chances are it is boring as hell so… Read More Dirty laundering at Collingwood’s coolest house of suds.
I broke up with Japanese food about 4 years ago. I was just over it. I was lucky enough to be working next door to one of the city’s best Japanese takeaway eateries (TOKYO DELI – check it out if you haven’t) at the time. I spent many years escaping in there at lunch for… Read More If you want to eat good Japanese food read this post… *insert your own headline puns*
So, I just added yet another year to my, ‘years survived humanity’ score, and despite the dread of that number’s expanse, every year I look forward to my cycle ending to celebrate myself and all the things I love for an entire week. Yes, one whole week is what I take, Birthday Week is legal,… Read More All of the heart feels in the CBD
I was on an absolute roll when I started this blog – eating, talking, moving my mouth all over the town. I had post after post backed up ready to go (in my head). Anyway, I got sidetracked. I got sidetracked because I went to the desert and I lost my head and my heart… Read More A mouth in a town like Alice.
I just wanted to quickly share with you guys a delicious little Melbourne treat that I discovered yesterday whilst running some errands on a less than easy day to be out and about. The wind was rough and hot, the sun was stinging and the mood was blah. I was in Richmond with mama bear… Read More pretty greens
Determined to find the goddamn Malaysian restaurant we knew was there… somewhere, we trudged up and down Smith Street, Collingwood 3 or 4 times, stomachs purring aggressively from the buckets of beer consumed in the hours prior. Masak Masak was the place we were looking for. My friend had been there before and when she… Read More Oh Sugar Prawn; it lak-sah good!
Laying in bed on Sunday morning, sun streaming through the half-open blinds, the cat leaning gently on my legs, Netflix flickering in front of my well-rested eyes(let’s talk about Wet, Hot American Summer another time), everything was pointing to staying right where I was. Until that usual Sunday sign started flashing in purple neon behind… Read More Best salad on the planet.
I am painfully aware that you cannot swing a cat in old Melbourne town without hitting a blogger square in the fork. Food, foodies, food bloggers, bloggers, blogs, hogs, the town is literally crawling with them. We certainly don’t need another one; creeping around, trawling through the laneways, living off the virtual scraps of the… Read More Open up and say, “ahhhhh-nother bloody food blog??!”
the town mouth 