Archive for the ‘at another’s place’ Category

it’s been a long time between posts (yet again!) but let’s see how this goes. i’m sitting in a guesthouse in Oji, Nara prefecture, Japan, on what is day 2 of what I’ve been calling my ‘end of year trip’, but is so many other things as well. it’s a journey to spend time with [...]


not cheese

07Aug10

excluding dairy from what i eat is something i’ve done before and found easy-ish. now, in toronto, the land of people with food intolerances, political eating and the like, finding not-dairy foods is too easy, and too tempting sometimes. there’s the standard tofutti cream cheese, but there’s also about 10 different types of vegan cheese [...]


i’ve just left my home for 6 months. a big step but one that’s been in the making for years and feels good already. i’m back in an old home town, ready to take what it gives me. which at the moment is thunder, lightning and rain. last week was my last full week at [...]


after a week conferencing with the archivists at UCLA, i escaped (and collapsed) to the desert near los angeles. it was hot, dry and dusty, and my couple of days were spent on the concrete at the municipal pool, lying on the couch, sleeping on the couch, lying on the deck and doing very little [...]


red and green

08Jul09

maybe we bought this pomegranate the night i landed in toronto, as part of the ritual visit to the mississauga mega supermarket. and the strawberries too. the salad is baby spinach, pomegranate, strawberries and fried bacon. with a reduced balsamic dressing (i think all ben did was heat the vinegar until it reduced by about [...]


this dinner rocked my world (and nourished my belly, perfect for a night out on the town seeing new orleans imports in berlin) green rice is my response to an excess of rocket bought at the turkish markets the day before: boil up rice (this is brown and wild rice) and add stock powder and [...]


the supposedly sunshine state didn’t come through with the goods last weekend. my three days in toowoomba (where i listened to lots of academics talk and ate scones at the controversial downs club) were plagued with rain, rain and more rain. and it was cold. so on a cold friday night i cooked my favourite [...]


festival food

09Feb09

i bought a ticket to playground weekender late last year, thinking it’d be a good chance to see a whole lot of bands i like (and some i don’t know) all in one go. then it was january and all the sydney festival goodness that goes with it, and i forgot all about the weekend [...]


it is still hot in sydney. not as hot as melbourne or adelaide, but consistently hot. it feels like it’s been weeks now that i’ve been using the heat as a reason for not working that effectively. it’s a bit of a tiring excuse these days. today i wondered how i managed to live so [...]


i went on a spontaneous trip to the northern rivers for a week, to hang out with some amazing people and do nothing much but sit and melt in the heat, and cook and eat. and maybe paddle in a creek a bit every now and then, and boogie on the dance floor when the [...]



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