'cause there's no-one here to say we can't have cake for breakfast'

  Cooking, learning, laughing, feasting.  I should have put more thought into that title....it's the name given to our monthly gathering to cook food from a chosen country, together.  This month was Lebanese, and what a feast it was! We cooked together, discussing ingredients and spice mixes. Questioning the difficulty of preparing various dishes and the search for the 'not so familiar' ingredients required. We cooked, learned, laughed, and feasted! The dishes were all amazing. We had a fantastic meal. We had no intention of choosing a favourite however...it happened. The stand out dish in terms of taste, and complexity to make - which was executed perfectly...was Reece's baklava.  If you are not familiar with baklava it is a sweet nutty dessert slice. Layers of filo pastry seperated by seams of mixed nuts and the whole thing drenched in syrup. It's delectable!   Next month we are off to Greece. Sorry Australia, no hard feelings but the crew decided you wer...

So here we are in the danger zone... Weekly posts have fallen away.  There's not much to write about when the house is quiet. We did something really different over Winter Deco A number of weeks ago three guys rung the door bell.   Can we talk to you about a private event on your roof terrace? We can talk The proposal was to have a House Party on the roof terrace. DJ's spinning decks and pumping out really loud (aweful) music to a bunch of like minded folk. This would usually be a hard No from me. But they were nice guys, pitched well, we're not busy. Why not...   We talked about how it would work, Risks. Issues. Cost. Back-up weather plan... The result was epic! We jumped in boots and all and planned for Winter Deco Saturday. 3pm - 9pm. We'll do food. The weather was rubbish so we ended up setting up in the front room. Which, for the first shot at this, was probably a better option. In summer, we'll aim for the roof terrace.   This is one of the very ...