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Each week I come up with a recipe using things the kids have grown in the school garden. The group of kids, who look after the garden, harvest the required fruit and / or veg for our weekly cooking, we cook it up and then share it at the end...

Drowning in home-grown zucchinis or being gifted zucchinis by people who are? This is the perfect recipe to get you through a zucchini glut.

Introducing… The Same Old Crap 5 February 2014 Welcome to Same Ol’ Crap, another regular series of posts for lunchlady. Same Ol’ Crap was inspired by a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with a woman I share office space with (I know I have my own office...

This year has seen my two girls head off to school, leaving me with more time to get on with stuff. Somehow one of those things ended up being hanging out with them at school teaching the kids cooking. I am not sure whether this is a desperate attempt to...

I always wanted to set up a lemonade stand when I was a kid. But Frankston in the early 80s wasn't the place for entrepreneurial kids and their cute hand drawn signs. We had a few crazy neighbours, like the woman who took her budgie for a walk in its cage,...

As you know our lives have been fairly CRAZY over the last few forevers, but finally we are back home and life is starting to slip back in to that familiar groove. It is so comforting when the alarm chimes at it's usual time and you get up to do...

In my last post I wrote about how inspired I was by the sun and how exciting it was to be outside. No such luck this week. Earlier this week I started rushing around getting ready to do my next blog post, I got halfway through the recipe and realised...

Today was magical. It was the first day in months that wasn't windy, icy cold, raining, snowing or just plain grey. Winter is always a season you're excited about in the beginning, red wine, open fires and crackly records playing, but by the last weeks of August the blues have...

We have a glut of lemons in our house at the moment (thanks to nana lynne and her amazingly over productive garden). I had been planning to create jars of lemon curd, but I know if I do, I will devour them, secretly, in the laundry or in the car...