This month’s IN MY KITCHEN is now closed!
Please join us again in October! ♥
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In my kitchen…
…is a new porcelain tea bowl, handcrafted by Steve Sheridan in the Blue Mountains. It’s a magnificent gift from my sisters (in-law), Kate and Penny. I sip fennel tea from it every morning…
Whereas the one Pete bought me last month had a frog inside the bowl, this one has a turtle. It’s hard to see in the photo, but the back is delicately etched with hexagons to resemble a real turtle shell…
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In my kitchen…
…is one of Beth’s ethically pasture raised chickens. It took me a few days to track down, but it was worth the effort…
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In my kitchen…
…are two bags of Amedei chocolate callets, purchased from my friend Tania at Lario International. They’re essential for our World Peace Cookies…
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In my kitchen…
…is a large batch of spritz cookies for my mum – they’re her favourite…
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In my kitchen…
…was a humungous basket of fruit and veg, an extremely generous gift from the wonderful Liz and Peter of Bizzy Lizzy’s Good Things…
Thank you so much, Lizzy and Peter!
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In my kitchen…
…is an adorable posy of little flowers from my lovely neighbours Jane and Bernie…
…and another from darling Penny and Kate. Both bunches were created and delivered by our clever friends at Little Flowers Sydney…
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In my kitchen…
…I’ve been making sourdough bagels. Each one is boiled (“kettled”) before baking…
I had one for breakfast, topped with pan fried mushrooms, jamon and edamame…
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In my kitchen…
…is my weekend coffee fix – a double decaf macchiato with one sugar and a giant Nancy ice cube. Made with our Nespresso machine using EcoCaffe’s 100% biodegradable Decaf Supreme pods…
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In my kitchen…
…there has been quite a lot of comfort food, including a recent batch of Römertopf beef and barley stoup…
…and a wickedly good Thai red duck curry…
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In my kitchen…
…was a huge batch of doughnuts. We made 65 in total, and they were all devoured the same day. We had a lot of help from friends and neighbours…
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Finally, in my kitchen…is me! Wearing my new bargain priced progressive glasses (that’s multi-focals to us old people), bought online from Zenni Optical. Zenni have an interface that lets you upload a photo and then try thousands of pairs of glasses on. It’s great fun if nothing else!
My multifocals ended up costing me just A$110 delivered. The lenses aren’t quite as high quality as my (much) more expensive pair, but they’re perfectly fine and the frames are very comfortable to wear. Thanks for the headsup, Valentina!
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Tell me, what’s happening in your kitchen this month?
If you’d like to do an In My Kitchen post on your own blog, please feel free to do so. We’d love to see what’s happening in your kitchen this month! Please link back to this blog, and let us know when your post is up, and we’ll add it to our monthly listing. Please upload your post by the 10th of each month.
Here are this month’s posts…
Emily @ Cooking for Kishore (New Jersey, USA)
Christine @ Food Wine Travel (Brisbane, QLD)
Andrew @ Greta’s Kitchen (Blackheath, NSW)
Cate @ A Travelling Cook (Berlin, Germany)
Beck @ In Search of Golden Pudding (Canberra, ACT)
Marian @ Apricot Tart (Coffin Bay, South Australia)
Elaine @ Food Bod (Milton Keynes, UK)
Becca @ The InTolerant Chef (Canberra, ACT)
Tania @ The Cook’s Pyjamas (Perth, Western Australia)
Ale @ Ligera de Equipaje (Argentina)
Nicole @ Miss Food Fairy (Melbourne, VIC)
Liz @ Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard (Gold Coast, QLD)
Maggie @ Spoon in a Saucepan (Ireland)
Emma @ Surrey Kitchen (Surrey, UK)
Claire @ Claire K Creations (Brisbane, QLD)
Laila @ Table of Colors (Finland)
Anne @ Anne Lawson (Melbourne, VIC)
Jhuls @ The Not So Creative Cook (Philippines)
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella (Sydney, NSW)
Moya @ Food and Tools (Bahrain)
Sherry @ Sherry’s Pickings (Brisbane, QLD)
Giulia @ Love at Every Bite (Canberra, ACT)
Charlie @ Hotly Spiced (Sydney, NSW)
Faye @ Veganopoulos (Melbourne, VIC)
Sally @ My Custard Pie (Dubai)
Bernice @ Dish ‘n’ the Kitchen (Calgary, Canada)
Kavey @ Kavey Eats (London, UK)
Shaheen @ Allotment2Kitchen (Wales, UK)
Lisa @ I’ll Be There With A Fork (Brisbane, QLD)
Amanda @ Lambs’ Ears and Honey (Adelaide, South Australia)
Greg and Katherine @ Rufus’ Food and Spirits Guide (Little Rock, Arkansas, USA)
Ella Dee @ Ella Dee (Sydney, NSW)
Sally @ Bewitching Kitchen (Kansas, USA)
Ardys @ Ardysez (Alice Springs, Northern Territory)
Vicki @ Boiled Eggs & Soldiers (Sydney, NSW)
Anne @ Life in Mud Spattered Boots (Essex, UK)
Lori @ Cooks with Evie (Canada)
Jane @ The Shady Baker (Broken Hill, NSW)
Tandy @ Lavender and Lime (Gordons Bay, South Africa)
Kari @ Bite-Sized Thoughts (London, UK)
Johanna @ Green Gourmet Giraffe (Melbourne, VIC)
Jan @ A Gluttonous Wife (South West VIC)
Fiona @ TIFFIN – Bite Sized Food Adventures (Brisbane, QLD)
Francesca @ Almost Italian (Melbourne, Victoria)
Kim @ A Little Lunch (Oklahoma, USA)
Gretchen @ Feeding My 3 Sons (South Carolina, USA)
Maree @ Around The Mulberry Tree (Gippsland, VIC)
Misky @ The Chalk Hills Kitchen (West Sussex, UK)
Debi @ My Kitchen Witch (Sheffield, UK)
Liz @ Spades, Spatulas & Spoons (Oakland, CA, USA)
Josephine @ Napoli Restaurant Alert (Sydney, NSW)
Ania @ Milk, Toast and Honey (UK)
Cassandra @ Just a Little Piece (San Diego, USA)
Jennifer @ Milk and Honey (Gippsland, VIC)
Liz @ Bizzy Lizzy’s Good Things (Canberra, ACT)
Shari @ Good Food Week (Canberra, ACT)
Nancy @ Plus Ate Six (Shanghai, China)
Glenda @ Passion Fruit Garden (Perth, Western Australia)
Tania @ My Kitchen Stories (Sydney, NSW)
Mandy @ The Complete Cookbook (Sundays River, South Africa)
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