Southern Comfort

My story on Southern food is published in the March/April issue of Taste Magazine (click here to read).

Lava and coffee

My story on Hawaii's Big Island is published in the Flight Centre blog (click here to read). 

Special gift

My story on a brave woman who lost her child to CHARGE Syndrome last year is published in this week's NZ Woman's Weekly (click here to read). There wasn't a dry eye in the house at this interview, I can tell you.

    

Heavenly home

I was lucky enough to spend this morning nosing around this fabulous Welli house for a story for an interiors magazine.

Be assured that my out-of-focus, surreptitious snaps are in no way indicative of how gorgy this reno is ...you'll have to wait for the story to see.

But in my 15 or so years of scribbling about houses, this is one of the loveliest I've had occasion to visit. No surprises too that the owner was a doll. All  in all, a good day.

More fruit and vegetable related goodness

This post should really be sponsored by the sort of organic produce chain that charges outrageous sums for knobbly, misshapen fruit and veggies (the kind our mothers would have turned their noses up at).

But the deep-pocketed, Prius-driving customers who frequent such shops would no doubt be salivating at this bounty the Animator harvested at the beach house on Saturday. After this photo was taken, we picked yet another bowl of white-fleshed peaches, whose delicate perfume is now filling the Mt Vic house.

Having exhausted my culinary repertoire of pumpkin, cherry tomato and peach dishes (not together, you understand) I have now started to plunder my vast collection of cookbooks whose main purpose seems to be attracting dust mites (bonus: this morning I discovered two cookbooks I have absolutely no recollection of ever buying).

Despite my best efforts, these photos are hardly Instragrammable, but you get the idea.

Hawaiian food

My story on a food walking tour of Honolulu is published in the Flight Centre blog (click here to read).

(Pic credit: iStock.com)

Pumpkin

It has come to this, I am now blogging about gourds.

But seeing as it's the first day of autumn, perhaps my vegetable-related rant isn't so inappropriate afterall?

Anyway, this magnificent specimen was grown by the Animator's fair hands at the beach house. It's the first of many, so there will be lots of pumpkin-based dishes in our house in the coming months.

In fact, if you're in the vicinity of Mt Victoria and fancy a three-course pumpkin supper, please make yourself known. We would be overjoyed to divest ourselves of some of our squash-related goodness.