• Christmas Recap and Prawn Cocktail

    DSC_0709The holiday season was SO busy for us, but I’m guessing that statement is not unique to me.  I hope you all have had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  I know I was so spoiled with not one, not two, but THREE Christmases!  How does a girl get so lucky?  I had one with my family in November in the US, one with just my better half in the middle of December in Perth and a third with his family on Christmas in Melbourne.  It was a whirlwind of food and family and presents too!

  • It’s All Fun and Games Until You Have a Blowout

    It's All Fun and Games Until You Have a BlowoutWhen this post was first conceptualized, it was going to be my jump back into the blogosphere with a recap of our great vacation to the northern reaches of Western Australia.  A great vacation that started with a blow out; while I was driving of course.  And in the middle of nowhere but fortunately enough across the road from a roadhouse and fortunately enough I was with my better half who is an absolute gem and handled the situation beautifully.  Of course the entire post was going to was going to be filled with humor and witty prose as I guided you through our week long adventure.  At least that’s how it sounded in my head.  The best laid plans my friends.  The best laid plans….

  • Philly Cheesesteak Pizza – Leftover Revamp

    Just the other week I made us a roast beef dinner.  It was really good.  Very tender and served with homemade gravy and roasted potatoes and vegetables.  I bought the smallest roast I could and even though we ate plenty, there was still so much leftover.  I mean a roast for just two people?  You go into it knowing you’ll be making more than one meal of it.

    After a few days of sandwiches and a dinner of open faced hot roast beef sandwiches with gravy I still had roast beef leftover!  Really.  It was time for this roast to be finished.Philly Cheesesteak Pizza ~ Living the Savory Life

  • Lamb Ragu

    Lamb Ragu ~ Living the Savory LifeI once entered into a pasta sauce cooking competition with my team at work.  We were to each make a pot of our own homemade sauce and we would be judged by our peers.  So I made sauce!!  And it was good!!  Really good!!  And I lost….  The sauce I made was a really fantastic red sauce with small meatballs.  Compared to the sauce that won, mine wasn’t particularly hearty and considering I was feeding a team of ten men, it was a big error on my part.  I didn’t cook to my audience.  I wanted my audience to love what I wanted to make.  Lesson learned eh?

  • In My Kitchen ~ July 2014

    It’s the beginning of the month and you know what that means right?  You do know don’t you?  You’re so good.  Yes, it’s another look into my kitchen and many other kitchens around the world via our gracious host Celia over at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial.

    Welcome to the middle of winter!  It’s been really tolerable so far which is great considering I had 45+ people in my house last weekend.  It was great that we were able to spill out onto the patio into the sun.  And I think that’s where we will start.  In my outdoor kitchen I have my very own, one of a kind, homemade spit roast.  Made by my electrical engineer better half and all around over the top handy man and his equally handy friend and mechanical engineer.  We have made lamb, pork, chicken and turkeys.  Absolutely amazing.  It produces the most tender and juicy roasts ever.  Now, I might be slightly biased but come on, my better half is really pretty amazing isn’t he?In My Kitchen ~ Living the Savory Life