Welcome
...this is who I am
Barefoot and pregnant in the seventies, I became aware of the awesome responsibility that I would face being a mother. When my son was still small, we moved to a tiny town in the Victorian Alps with clean air, sparkling streams and black soils. We began to grow our own vegetables and milk our own goat. We kept chickens and a friend shot us rabbits for meat.
Life was a constant learning process. I cooked on a wood stove, made jam, baked bread and amused myself learning various crafts through the long winter nights.I learnt to crochet in time to make a blanket for the second baby. There was no television, no disposable nappies, washing machine or telephone and my mother lived on the other side of the country.
Since then, I have studied nutrition, worked with children, in publishing, restaurants, galleries and as a caterer. I travelled the spiritual trail to India and returned a little wiser. I run a business based on natural skincare I create, have published two books, and still have time to work part time, bake bread, tend the animals and play in the garden quite happily.
I now have grandchildren who help me to embrace new technology. I watch them growing in a crazy and uncertain world where equipment changes faster than we can read the manual, where the weather is less predictable than ever, where we have to lock our doors and where children can no longer play away from the house unsupervised.
This is a web site for them, for you and your grandchildren, a gift of the learning of my life - the joy of curiosity and creation.
It will always be a work in process, I hope you enjoy exploring it as much as I enjoy its creation.
Life was a constant learning process. I cooked on a wood stove, made jam, baked bread and amused myself learning various crafts through the long winter nights.I learnt to crochet in time to make a blanket for the second baby. There was no television, no disposable nappies, washing machine or telephone and my mother lived on the other side of the country.
Since then, I have studied nutrition, worked with children, in publishing, restaurants, galleries and as a caterer. I travelled the spiritual trail to India and returned a little wiser. I run a business based on natural skincare I create, have published two books, and still have time to work part time, bake bread, tend the animals and play in the garden quite happily.
I now have grandchildren who help me to embrace new technology. I watch them growing in a crazy and uncertain world where equipment changes faster than we can read the manual, where the weather is less predictable than ever, where we have to lock our doors and where children can no longer play away from the house unsupervised.
This is a web site for them, for you and your grandchildren, a gift of the learning of my life - the joy of curiosity and creation.
It will always be a work in process, I hope you enjoy exploring it as much as I enjoy its creation.
and here's what you will find:
Cooking up a storm
Kitchen adventures that include:
Fast Food: quick and easy recipes for every occasion
Putting Food By: all types of preserving
Make it yourself: if you like to explore cooking, here you will find recipes for things like soy milk, yoghurt and bread making for a self sufficient cook.
Food or Medicine: share my exploration of strange and wonderful ingredients that I find intriguing.
Inspiring Books: fact, fiction and recipes - my special books on all things food.
Mother's Little Helpers: the gadgets and devices, machines and equipment I can't live without (and a few that I most certainly can!)
Down the Garden Path
What's in my garden: a list of the plants I grow in my garden, updated seasonally.
Herbs: history, growing tips, strange facts and more.
Vegetables:
Fruit:
Pest and other problems: natural solutions
Weird and wonderful: nature can be strange
What's in my garden: a list of the plants I grow in my garden, updated seasonally.
Herbs: history, growing tips, strange facts and more.
Vegetables:
Fruit:
Pest and other problems: natural solutions
Weird and wonderful: nature can be strange
Please use the drop down menu above to find each section.
