Hill of Grace Restaurant Launch
There’s no doubt about it – there are some days when I feel that perhaps the gods are smiling on me. Certainly, the day I opened the post and found my invitation to the launch of Adelaide’s Hill of...
View ArticleWish You Were Here Postcards – The Giant Redwoods of Muir Woods
Muir Woods in Mill Valley, California, was designated a National Monument by President Roosevelt in 1908 to protect the old-growth coastal redwood forest from destruction. (...)Read the rest of Wish...
View ArticleA Sneak Peek – Adelaide’s Cellar Door Wine Festival 2015
The Cellar Door Wine Festival Social Media Ambassadors Recently I was asked my prediction for Australia’s hottest travel destination for 2015 (actually, it was when I was named as Adelaide’s top food...
View ArticleAdelaide Hills Wine Show 2014 – All the Winners
Adelaide Hills Wine show lunch at Mt Lofty House I was lucky enough to be invited to the Adelaide Hills Wine Show lunch last week, where all the winning wines from the Adelaide Hills Wine Region were...
View ArticleIn My Kitchen December 2014
Wine! Catlin’s award-winning Montepulciano I love to have a poke around all of the other kitchens in Fig Jam and Lime Cordial‘s monthly roundup and, for those of you mildly curious about what I’m...
View ArticleHistoric Seppeltsfield- A New Lease on Life
We are now heading into serious wines season here in South Australia, with an extensive list of wine and food festivals poised to begin and summer holidays providing all the excuse many of us need to...
View ArticleWin a Double Pass to Adelaide’s Cellar Door Wine Festival!
Adelaide’s Cellar Door Wine Festival 2015 Well the Christmas tree has been packed away, the holidays are over, the kids are back in school, January is almost done and we are all back to the grind. But...
View ArticleIn My Kitchen February 2015
In My Kitchen February 2015 – homegrown tomatoes saved from the Wolfhound In My Kitchen is a quick round-up of whatever is floating my culinary boat at the moment. February has quite taken me by...
View ArticleIn My Kitchen March 2015
Ruby Spice It’s time for another peek into my kitchen to find out what I’m loving this month. You can check out a whole range of other bloggers kitchens if you head over to Fig Jam and Lime Cordial,...
View ArticleWin a Selection of Taylors Wines!
I’m loving Taylors Wines in my kitchen this month & now one of you can win a Promised Land selection & learn to love these South Australian wines too! Taylors Wines -In My Kitchen June 2015 If...
View ArticleMaxwell Wines in South Australia’s McLaren Vale
A winery, a meadery, a fab restaurant, a maze & a secret limestone cave. ALL the reasons to visit Maxwell Wines in South Australia’s McLaren Vale. The view from Maxwell Wines, McLaren Vale. Maybe...
View ArticleBarolo –“The Wine of Kings and the King of Wines”
A visit to the beautiful Italian region which has given the world the very noble Barolo wine. The village of Barolo – image from Wikimedia Commons Despite the fact that The Bloke and I have always been...
View ArticleCrush Festival 2016 – Adelaide Hills
It’s almost time for Crush Festival 2016 – celebrating all the very best of wine, food and life in the Adelaide Hills. Here I am back again all bright eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for the shiny new...
View ArticleHands On Fridays at Chapel Hill Winery
Situated in South Australia’s beautiful McLaren Vale wine region, Chapel Hill Winery offers a special treat for food and wine lovers with it’s Hands On Fridays. Prawn & Angel Hair Pasta I have very...
View ArticleLongview Vineyard – Adelaide Hills Wine Tourism at it’s Best
Head to Macclesfield in the Adelaide Hills – because when it comes to great wine, fine food and warm hospitality, the Saturno’s at Longview Vineyard are doing everything just right. Macclesfield is not...
View ArticleGreat Wine Capitals of the World – Adelaide
Adelaide is officially designated as one of the Great Wine Capitals of the world – an exclusive & internationally noted network of elite wine regions. Sometimes we need reminding just how good we...
View ArticleIn My Kitchen – September 2016
I’m enjoying more cookbooks & some great local beverages in my kitchen this month. What’s in yours? I’ve been a little spoiled in the last few weeks, so have some lovely local produce and a new...
View ArticleIn My Kitchen – November 2016
It’s time for another look at what I’m loving In My Kitchen. This month I’m loving South Australian wine, travel goodies and cookbooks! In my kitchen this month are some reminders of a fabulous dinner...
View ArticleA Vermouth Workshop in Turin with Riservo Carlo Alberto
Vermouth is booming in Europe right now, so I’ve done the hard yards in order find out more about it. Cocktails are all the rage these days, with bearded bartenders shaking their cocktail mixers all...
View ArticleIn My Kitchen – December 2016
It’s time for the last In My Kitchen roundup of 2016 – and another year bites the dust! So here we are, at the last In My Kitchen roundup for 2016 – and where did that year go? (...)Read the rest of In...
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