Living List

living list

Visit Machu Pichu, Peru ~ Explore Hong Kong ~ Visit Petra, Jordan ~ See Ayers Rock at sunset ~ Explore Paris ~ Explore Rome ~ Explore New York ~ Visit the Sagrada Família in Barcelona ~ Visit the Taj Mahal ~ Explore Egypt ~ Visit Whitby Abbey ~ Take a Jack the Ripper tour in East London ~ Go on a bike riding holiday ~ Go on a road trip across Australia and America ~ Visit Gallipoli ~ Walk the Kokoda Track ~ Visit Anne Frank’s house ~ Visit the Berlin Wall ~ Go to BlogHer ~ Cook 1 new recipe a week for a year ~ Investigate hypnotherapy for my nail biting ~ Complete a First Aid course ~ Dance a jive again ~ Hold a snake ~ Go to the ballet ~ Go hang gliding ~ Go on a hot air balloon ride ~ Go scuba diving with sharks ~ Play the piano well ~ Learn to take good photos ~ Go on a ghost tour ~ Write a book (or twenty) ~ Publish a book (or twenty) ~ Complete a screenplay ~ To one day own a house with a library and a comfy writing space ~ Run a full marathon ~ Provide money for a study scholarship ~ Invest in art ~ Go abseiling ~ Stand up on a surfboard ~ Ride a horse at a full gallop again ~ Do a hot lap on a racetrack ~ Go without television or computers for a week (at least) ~ Throw a giant ‘Great Gatsby’ themed party ~ Drink a martini ~ Get a PhD ~ Be an advocate for children’s literacy and reading ~ Write open letters of thanks to people who have influenced my life ~ Re-learn to change a car tyre ~ Dress up big-time for Halloween ~ Go to a ‘sing-along’ screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1. Whitby Abbey, 2. Owers Corner, 3. Berlin Wall – Berlin, 4. Taj Mahal – Early Morning Mist, 5. Night at Colloseum, 6. Uluru, 7. Holy, 8. Petra Treasury, 9. New York City, 10. Balloon silhouette, 11. Hong Kong Gets Ready to Party!, 12. Peru, Machupicchu: Light on the past, 13. Eiffel Power, 14. Chefrem’s Pyramid, 15. dead sea, 16. Jack the Ripper Walking Tour

Giant Hot Cross Bun

April 6, 2012

It’s Good Friday, otherwise known as Hot Cross Bun day. It took me a long time to get motivated this morning, but I eventually got moving with a little help from the kids. What helped was I wanted to see if I could do a lazy version of a recipe I’d never tried before.   [...]

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Chocolate Tofu Cake

March 21, 2012

I’ve had this recipe up on the fridge, waiting to be cooked, since the beginning of the year. A lot of the reasons why I hadn’t up until this point were because it called for a lot of eggs (and separating them, at that) and tofu. Now, I’m am not a tofu lover and I [...]

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Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins

March 5, 2012

The other week on the phone my mother was telling me about this chocolate pumpkin recipe that she’d tried. She then offered her baking results to my teenage cousins who had no idea of the vegetable contents and didn’t even realise until she later confessed her secret. This piece of news gave me hope that [...]

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Mini Moussaka Stacks

March 3, 2012

This is a variation of a moussaka roll recipe I found in a Super Food Ideas magazine. That calls for the eggplant to be lightly fried before being wrapped around a ricotta cheese mixture. I quickly realized mine could not be the same as my eggplant was not large enough to wrap around anything, not [...]

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What Richard Flanagan Taught Me About Baking Bread

February 17, 2012

I’m reading Richard Flanagan’s And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? at the moment* and in it there’s a short essay called ‘Bread’ which was originally published in The Age. He talks about his memories of bread baking, dating back to when he was a child. At the end also is a recipe called ‘The [...]

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Olive Bread

February 12, 2012

This is a Margaret Fulton recipe, as was the fruit souffle tart – a tidbit of information I forgot to mention! Again, because it’s baking and that is a precise art, I faithfully followed her word and won’t repost the recipe, but if you feel inspired the link to the page is here. Actually, wait, [...]

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Living List Tick #2 – Invest In Art

February 6, 2012

I feel I need to clarify that statement: ‘invest’ would suggest handing over vast sums of money (which we don’t have) for a painting or a statue that we would keep in the house and forever look over protectively, with a hand-wringing paranoia that it must not be touched or gone near. No, when I [...]

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Fruit Soufflé Tart

February 4, 2012

This is the first recipe I’ve made that I’ve followed down to the very syllable and as such I’m not comfortable posting the method like I have for most of the others so far. Luckily, though, I’ve found it for you via a scanned Google book (which is hardly any better copyright wise, I’d argue). [...]

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Cherry Oat Biscuits

January 28, 2012

I was recently reading the Bourke Street Bakery cookbook and there was a recipe in it for ‘oat and barberry biscuits’. Normally I’d skip past a biscuit recipe, but this one made me stop – foremost because I wondered ‘What on earth is a barberry?’ Then I looked at the ingredients and thought, Yippee! I [...]

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