Christmas at the Cottage
I’m sure many of you know we moved into our tiny little cottage earlier this when Covid hit. And I’ve been waiting all year to decorate it and do Christmas at the cottage.
I’m sure many of you know we moved into our tiny little cottage earlier this when Covid hit. And I’ve been waiting all year to decorate it and do Christmas at the cottage.
This time last year I hosted our annual girls Christmas dinner, which you can read about here, but I never actually did a blog post on it because of the terrible bushfires. Only now does it feel right to post it, …
With all the terrible bushfires here last Christmas, it never felt right to post about trivial stuff when much bigger things were going on. So only now do I feel it’s appropriate to share our Annual Girls Christmas Dinner from …
If you’re not a fan of overly sweet cranberry sauce on your poultry at Christmas, but still love all the traditional flavour companions like cranberries, oranges and herbs, then this Christmas Butter is for you! I know what you might …
Entertaining at Christmas has to be one of my favourite things in the world. Having said that, I’m conscious about plastics, toxins and waste. So instead of doing traditional Christmas crackers, with useless fillers that end up in the garbage, …
I absolutely LOVE the scent and flavour of Elderflower. To me it goes hand-in-hand with the summery wafts of jasmine and gardenia. Yet Elderflower is nowhere near as common. When you do find it growing wild (or in the garden), …
I never really shared much of our “traditional country” Christmas table this year, and although Christmas is technically over, I figured why not still share. Because, this was actually my favourite table ever! We moved into our new rental home …
There’s few things I love more than having time out with some of my girl friends and it’s always around mid December that we have a good catch at our annual Girls Christmas Dinner. And last year (gosh that still …
Now, I love a bit of pudding at Christmas, but the problem with being in the Southern Hemisphere, is that more often than not, it’s too warm for hot pudding! This is where Christmas Pudding Ice Cream comes in! Every bit …
Oh, how I love a Christmas glazed ham!? In fact, it’s one of my absolute favourite things about Christmas. And even though every summer I severely overdose on ham, I can’t help but get terribly excited at the end of …
I know some of you are traditionalists and might say “it’s not ‘Christmas’ unless you have a Christmas cracker/bon bon to pop open”. I myself really do love the tradition of it, but truly, there’s not much going on inside …