I recently mentioned Emma Knowles' Vietnamese Prawn Salad recipe which was posted at Gourmet Traveller. I made it for dinner last night, with a few changes to reduce the calorie content.
Extra kilos always seem to come with a bonus helping of guilt, repulsion and self-pity. For many people this is of course a vicious cycle - a higher weight than expected on the scale results in pity relieved by excess consumption, which results in guilt and there we go all over again. Those feelings are [...]
It has been one of those weeks. The only possible cure of which is a new pair of shoes or a roast dinner. Apparently we're in the midst of a Global Financial Crisis so I went with the roast. Good thing too, because as it turns out husbands tend to be awfully forgiving of a [...]
As a perfectionist, it can be easy to cast a disparaging eye over someone else's trolley in the checkout queue and think "I'm way too awesome to eat lean cuisine". Hell, I've done it. (Sorry). Well you aren't so awesome when it's 9:00pm on a Tuesday night, you're starving and you end up in a [...]
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