The title says it all: eating, drinking, cooking, friendship and family.
Posted in Recipe: savoury, Recipes, Rice, Seafood on Nov 26th, 2009
One of the great things about getting down to our beach house at Lorne for the weekend is the opportunity to cook up a feast for our family and friends. The other is to make use of the fine seafood, vegetables and smallgoods available at the local stores. For a party of six or more, [...]
Posted in Cafes, Review: cafes, Sweet treats, Victoria - Country on Nov 25th, 2009
I remember the first time I went berry picking. I was about 7 years old at the time and some family friends owned a blueberry farm (well, it wasn’t a farm, probably more accurately it was an acre or so of blueberry bushes at the bottom of their land). I was terribly excited to go [...]
Posted in Cafes, Review: cafes, Victoria - Country on Nov 24th, 2009
This weekend I (inadvertently) ended up at Schoolies in Lorne. To be honest, this isn’t the first time I have ended up gatecrashing the highschool end of year celebrations. The first time this happened we were driving into Lorne on a Friday night at about midnight. We were perplexed to see huge groups of teenagers [...]
Posted in Lessons in food and drink on Nov 13th, 2009
I had a magnificent Great Aunt, named Ruthie, who lived at Lorne on Victoria’s southwest coast. Her house was an imposing white weatherboard, hidden behind a dense hedge, across the road from the beach. In her sun room she had scripted over a doorway, “Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem”: It is not by some idle [...]
