on ice
Back in the olden days when Dad was still dairying (heh heh, that one was for you, Dad) we had a lot of milk. Er, obviously. It arrived home, before we moved into the house on the farm, in a stainless steel milk can, on the back, or maybe […]
nothing if not honest
image source So at the end of week one of 100% sugar-free… can you guess where this is going? I got through the whole week without so much as a dried apricot. Zero fructose. There was baking, there were Bikkies, there was the gift of a family sized box of […]
new home for our chicks
The tiny chicks who arrived just five weeks ago are no longer so tiny. Ah, meat chickens. What a strange animal. They really do double in size every week, which is a little bit freaky. I heard this week of a friend of a friend who had a large flock […]
A Slice of Wednesday
Hello, Slice of Wednesday. This above, is not what it seems. At all. It is verifiably 100% sugar-free. Oh yes. I was so proud of myself, mixing up (a made up recipe) butter, peanuts, shredded coconut, organic raw cacao nibs and cocoa, almond meal and unhulled tahini. I thought, this […]
How on day 2 of being sugar-free I spent all day baking biscuits
Luckily, I have other taste-testers. Also, none of what I baked today was experimental – it was all standard Buena Vista Farm Bikkie stock, I know what they taste like!! Just to be sure though, my Dad and Adam checked them. A friend said to me tonight how strange […]
strange sugar-free life
So here we are, in it. At the end of the first day without sugar. I feel a bit vague. I sailed through the day and even the afternoon without any trouble, and there is approximately 4kg of chocolate stored in bins in this house at present. Also biscuits. […]
Giving up sugar. No, really.
Hello, my name is Fiona and I have a bit of a sugar problem. It's no so big or obvious. I'm not enormous, or even that unhealthy. But I do eat sugar every day, and I crave it. I've kidded myself for a long time that because most of […]
food for a fox hunt
This afternoon at 5.30pm, I heard a rustling in the pantry. It was the instigator of a proclaimed "major fox hunt" (pictured above) sourcing fruit and sultanas and crackers "in case we get hungry hunting the fox." I pointed out that our chicken noodle soup was on the stove and […]
A slice of Wednesday: Another Lemon Slice
Adam does not have a sweet tooth in his head. (Pass him the olives and the fetta any time of day.) But some weeks he'll look up from the laptop and say, just ever so slightly folornly, that slice looked nice. Because mostly it's made, photographed and out the door before he's […]
Gerringong Quilt Show
Every year I go – my Auntie Marg is one of the organisers – and every year I think the quilts cannot get more amazing. And then they do. I love love love quilts. I've never made one, that's largely because I have an extraordinary friend who quilts and […]