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Incaberry and Date Bars

April 12, 2013
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Ever eaten incaberries?  Nah, me either until I received an email from the incaberry folks here in Australia.  They wanted to know if I’d like some berries to play with. I was honest and told them I’d never heard of them before but I was willing to give it a go.  They taste much like [...]

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Mushroom Appetizer Tarts with Truffle Oil

April 9, 2013
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I went for a walk over the weekend and along the way I met a really sweet lady. She had beautiful platinum hair, eyes that could see right through you and a smile that was big and bright and a little bit crooked. She stopped to pat Charlie and she began talking to me about [...]

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Swirl, Sniff, Sip: How to Taste Wine Like a Pro

April 8, 2013

Don’t have the patience to learn the complexities of every type of wine out there? You don’t have to actually be a pro to act like one. Wine tasting is about knowing what you’re looking for, the most common flavor notes and a few keywords that will help you sound more wine master than layman. [...]

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Remember Food Writer Friday?

April 7, 2013

I’m going to bare my soul in these words so read but please don’t judge.  Last year, many of you know I began a series called Food Writer Friday where I interviewed food writers / bloggers that I follow and respect. Everyone is busy and keeping  up with who sent what and when it would [...]

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Noosa International Food and Wine Festival 2013

April 5, 2013

You’ll probably remember my post about the Noosa Int’l Food and Wine festival that I wrote last year. It was my very first experience up at Noosa which is only 30 minutes from home.  In my mind it was a food fair where you get smashed between two tall people, don’t see anything and the [...]

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Easter Monday Brunch

April 3, 2013

You’ve probably heard a lot of people tell stories about their “Lucille Ball Moment.”  It makes me rather sad to say that my moments are more like Ethel Mertz.  Not that an Ethel moment is a bad thing to have, it’s just not as glamorous as a Lucy Ricardo moment. Ethel and I have a [...]

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Easter Memories

March 27, 2013
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I grew up in the far northeast in Maine.  The winters were (and probably still are) quite severe and like this year it seems that Spring is a long time coming.  I remember that it snowed the night of my junior prom in May.  In Maine, nothing is predictable where weather is concerned. I checked [...]

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Homemade Spring Rolls Recipe with a Twist

March 23, 2013

As many of you know, my daughter-in-law Ming lives in Atlanta but she’s originally from Taiwan and moved to the US when she was only 13.  It must have been one helluva shock to a 13-year-old to be adopted out of her family, leaving her parents and brother and sister behind. I know it’s tradition [...]

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Nose to Tail Cooking Class

March 19, 2013
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There I was with my weekend all planned when I saw a post on Facebook from Freestyle Escape about a cancellation they’d had for their nose to tail cooking class to be held on Sunday from 10 to 3.  Freestyle Escape in the hinterland on the Sunshine Coast has a wonderful reputation for great cooking [...]

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