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This recipe, from my nonna, is vedura (meaning any green vegetable) stewed in tomato passata. She would serve it with potatoes, stale bread, or pasta.

As the weather gets cooler on the other side of the world, our friends at Kid & Coe asked us for a recipe to warm their bellies. The seasons have finally started to turn (where we live it can take a while, it snowed one Christmas), the freezing cold winter...

Imagine if someone said to you, "hey, bread is a vegetable and you can eat it for every meal", wouldn't that be the greatest news of your life? It would be in my top 10 for sure. But it isn't. But sweet potato IS a vegetable AND you can make...

So, it's official, we're now in our second year of Lunch Lady. With us launching issue four and FINALLY waving goodbye to issue five, we see the second summer Lunch Lady complete. And while we manically finished pages and moved stuff around to make it the most perfect issue it...

This week's bestie is one of my GIANT lady crushes. She's so clever, inspiring and a giant spunk. I love watching everything Tai gets up to, ever since she bought a coffee at my cafe 11 years ago. Thanks for sharing with us Tai (check out her AMAZING kid's books,...

Happy Wednesday lunch ladies and lunch fellas. I hope you're all getting that sneaky hint of spring in your life, like I have here. Today's Lunch Lady Bestie is the ace Yumi Stynes. She's the lady who had my music obsessed 20 something dream job. She works on telly, runs...

Hey Lunch Ladies! We have a brand spanking new weekly feature on our webby for you all. Each week we'll meet a fellow lunch lady / fella and see what they've been up to lately. They'll also share their go-to recipe, which will hopefully inspire us all to branch out...

"Our life is just so great at the moment, no real stresses or worries." As soon as the words spilled from my lips I knew I should have left them as a quiet and unspoken thought. I'm aware it's silly to blame the words on unfortunate things happening, but here...

For those of us who are lucky enough to have a job which allows us to juggle hanging with our kids and working, we’re currently in school holiday juggle town. Recently, I was told to just surrender to it. But I find surrendering really bloody tough. I like to think...

It is official, there’s a pre-teen in the house. This morning was amazing. She was helpful, kind and loving. Who knows who will hop off the bus this afternoon. It’s really interesting being on the other side of this pre-teen / teen angst. I was a pretty troubled pre-teen slash...

A few months ago while I was driving my white Volvo station wagon to pick my kids up from school I had an epiphany. "I am actually a grown up." A couple of things in that picture to help me join the dots. But why did I just realise this?...

Have you ever had those times where you just want to lose yourself in all the good things and put all the other life crap in a box for some other time or some other you to deal with? Sometimes I have less energy or gumption to face this stuff...

About a month ago I was diagnosed with coeliac disease. Weirdly, it was the greatest news I'd received in a long time. For the last few years I had been feeling crap, depressed and generally out of sorts. Finally it reached a point where I was at my wits end...

We are currently in peak "mum can we have an icy pole" after school season. And since the girls and I have decided to cut refined sugar from our lives, the only icy pole we can eat from the store is four dollars a pop.

My brain and body is so disinterested in getting out of bed at the moment. The workaholic in me is pumped the kids are back at school and it's go go go with routine, but the lazy oaf who lies deep within is bummed about the shorter lounging around time....

I've loved granola forever. And I have been buying it forever. Like a mad woman. For some reason, when visiting dad in Tassie this Christmas, I was staring at the boxes of granola in the supermarket and finally snapped. HOW EXPENSIVE IS THIS BLOODY GRANOLA????? The cheapest I could find...

This time of year is intense, there's no way around it. This year I have paired back most of the Christmas responsibilities and yet somehow I still haven't rid myself of the insanity that is the festive season. I just close my eyes, hold on tight and hope I make...

I’ll be the first to admit I have a problem with managing my expectations. I build everything into the most amazing version of what it can be and when it falls short, I’m left disappointed. This is the story of my upside-down rhubarb and strawberry cake, kind of. I imagined...

Did you know that you can go and buy your very own copy of Lunch Lady now? From an actual shop? She went on sale in real life on Monday and it is awesome seeing photos of her popping up all over instagram. If you'd like to shout out and say...

I have a bit of a banana habit. I am obsessed with looking for the rejects at the green grocer and was once SO overcome with excitement when one of the big supermarkets were getting rid of tonnes of overripe bananas for $1 a kilo I called my partner to...

People who think of other people, without a thought for themselves are freaking beautiful. They offer small gestures that are so heartbreakingly honest and true they amount to the most beautiful. Last year I was called to collect my big kid from school after she'd hurt herself. At 8:00pm that...

I have spent most of my time in the car today thinking how to write this post. There's no news or revelation, I've just been trying to articulate a feeling I experienced this morning. You know when you look at your kids and they look back at you in a...

You may have noticed from some of my blog posts we have endured a super long winter, the longest in 25 years. Winter got so hard, I seriously considered getting hold of a dawn simulator lamp to help me just get up in the morning. However, it wasn't until the...

There is no greater gift to give a new mum than one less thing to do. And baked treats.