Rachel asked about making soup from scratch, so here are my thoughts on soups.  I have two regulars  I make frequently over winter that are ...

Back in the day, before the invention of supermarkets, most of our food was unpackaged and much of it was fresh.  I remember a time when the...

Thank you all so much for your lovely comments on the radio interview.  I'm back at my voluntary job today so I'm going to introduce...

A few weeks ago Radio National contacted me and asked if I would be interviewed for their program Life Matters.  I've listened to Life M...

When you pick up your needles and start knitting for the first time, you'll join an extended family that covers the globe and goes back ...

I was asked to write a guest post on the ABC Pool site.  It's described as "a social media space that brings together ABC professio...

This is one last Kitchen Sink post.  It is from Liz, who sent the photos and info some time ago but it didn't arrive at my end.  Anyhow,...

Living this simple life is quite different to how I imagined it would be.  When we first changed our spending habits, stopped buying stuf...

Last Wednesday was Sorry Day in Australia.  Sorry Day has been held on May 26 each year since 1998 to commemorate  and remember the history ...

One of the great benefits of eating food you have cooked from scratch is that you know what you are eating.  The ideal is that you buy all t...