Ten tips to get you through the in-between week

1. Eat less, yes, even the Christmas left-overs

2. Connect with friends and family

3. Drink lots of water, and if your drinking more alcohol than usual have 2 glasses water per alcoholic drink

4. Review the year, appreciate your accomplishments and focus on these for next year

5. Start the day with some spirilina in organic apple juice, mix furiously with a teaspoon or have with yogurt and fruit

6. Be grateful for what you have and keep relaxed and calm so you end the year well

7. Clear out the fridge and cupboard of expired processed and packaged foods (yikes I'm hoping you don't have any of these in the first place !) let's call them dry good's.

8. Start cooking a little more each day and be free with you improvisation of recipes, a chef whom I admire once told me you can always fix a cooking mistake just don't be afraid to try new thing's.

9. Cook with love and reckless abandonment

10. Be kind to strangers and smile at one new person as you have time this is the in-between week.

Chef goes surfing

Yeah so it is the in-between week which means working from home and playing with friends in the sea, although the weather has been so crap so I have been in a movie marathon catching up on new films and some old ones. Christmas lunch was at my aunt's and I'm not allowed to lift a finger so I have had my head in cookbooks the last 2 day's getting ready for new menu's and a cooking extravaganza. My boyfriend gave me Jamie's America cookbook for chrissie and what a treat, since my recent USA trip's and doing the food styling gig for Mad Mex, I can't get enough of this amazingly fresh and delicious cuisine so get ready for some Mexican wholefoods.
Hope your relaxing enjoying the in-between week somewhere warm or maybe in the surf like me.

Masterchef live and otway free range pork

All last weekend I helped out with otway free range pork and cooking different products for people to try.
Here I am with damien and demo chef chris both visiting from melbourne. I missed the whole ' master chef' hype but got around to some talks by chefs and met some really cool foodies, the heart and soul of food land the makers of products and the unknowns. Nuff said. If your interested in finding out about free range piggies living in ecohuts go to otway pork It's the only pork product in australia to be certified by the RSPCA.....

Sydney Cooking School

Last night I went along to the opening of the new Sydney Cooking School it is a beautiful kitchen with fisher and paykel appliances and the owners Camilla and Brett are two very experienced and passionate chef's. The canapes were delicious especially the paella which was cooked by one of Brett's chef's from Spain.
Exciting news for foodies in Sydney!

Reactivate and Celebrate Spring!

H E L L O ....
OK, I confess I have been laying dormant for 4 months on the blogger front.
I'm awake and ready to step into mid spring, this means asparagus, juicy watermelon and artichokes.
Hey bec and atticus what's in the garden ?