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Incoming coffee addiction

My coffee addiction has come back at full force. Because the coffee at the local cafe where I am housesitting is a bit insipid I...

14 August, 2025 / 0 Comments

Tofu and Pumpkin Green Curry with Green Beans

This recipe is lovely on a cosy, winter evening. It is rich and aromatic and the protein in the plant-based tofu provides satiating goodness. Pumpkin and...

12 August, 2025 / 0 Comments

Green leaves as a foundation – travel and health

There seems to be something about travelling (for me at least) that brings health to the foreground of my awareness. I am house sitting for two...

07 August, 2025 / 0 Comments

tofu ginger ball and black sesame sauce, roquet carrot, cabbage with nectarine dressing, buckwheat, quinoa, brown rice spring onion dill, lentil, roast pumpkin kale seasonal lunch bowl friends of the earth collingwood

comfort food when sick or scared

I guess my reticence where promoting plant protein is concerned is borne out of the fact that from personal experience, when we are ill, or...

22 July, 2025 / 0 Comments

chicken mango curry in blue ceramic bowl with various colours of rose flowers behind

Reasons to be grateful in a cost of living crisis

One nice thing about the cost of living crisis is that it helps us to appreciate the little things in life, I think. This evening...

12 July, 2025 / 0 Comments

creamy Mediterranean pasta dish with chilli and chopped salami

Cost of living mid week pasta dish

I have sincere gratitude for the vulnerable person in the supermarket the other day who asked if his companion had noodles. It made me think...

09 July, 2025 / 0 Comments

still life tonalism painting - apples and knife

Cost of living bites

It is incredible to realise how HUNGRY one gets, when the chips are down, and there is no more money for snacks this week. It is...

06 July, 2025 / 0 Comments

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