Well, that was a longer break than I expected it to be. I’d like to thank the NHMRC’s insane grants schedule, Easter, and the cyst on my wrist for providing the synergy of silly working hours, non-existent weekends, pain, and…
Hooray! The new year has started and it’s back to the farmers’ markets for us, just in time for all those lovely tomatoes and long peppers and the last of the season’s apricots (already? How did this happen?). Saturday was…
Hooray! Saturday was the Bundoora Farmers’ Market, and I got to go to it! Better still, I got to go with a license to buy lots of goodies, since the fridge and freezer were significantly emptier than when I was…
My current nocturnal tendencies (which are driving me absolutely nuts, incidentally) are making it very difficult to get to the farmers’ markets of late, but Sunday was a choir Sunday, which means that one has to get up early anyway……
Seriously, we are a week out from the official start of winter, and I can buy raspberries at the market? And zucchini flowers? Melbourne, don’t get me wrong, I’m loving this last hurrah of warm weather, but you’re making me…
I am back, having survived the St Matthew’s Passion with my vocal chords intact! It was a glorious, glorious thing, and I am itching to sing it again and also to learn all the soprano and alto arias and maybe…
Melbourne is in fine form today. As we left for the market, it was drizzling, but by the time we were halfway there, the sun was shining so brightly that Andrew was making plaintive remarks about sunglasses. But it started…
I realise that I’m not posting many recipes here at present. Quite frankly, the weather just isn’t conducive to culinary experimentation – it seems to be endlessly, wearyingly hot, in a manner that saps energy and creativity alike. Right now,…
Hooray, our local farmers’ market is back! It was quite a small market this weekend, but that was probably actually a good thing, given how crazy I went on vegetables last week. The really important thing to note was that…
I have been so busy with one thing and another that I’ve actually missed the last few farmers’ markets at Coburg. A terrible fate! And in these few lost weeks, the season has changed noticeably, with the asparagus gone, broccoli…
