I am not a professional cook (although I am lucky to be surrounded by friends who are). Although I dream of creating a magnificent kitchen garden brimming with fragrant herbs, in reality I know less than nothing about gardening.  I am utterly hopeless at sticking to seasonal vegies -mainly because I have basically no idea about what is in season when. I live in a small country town with very limited access to store cupboard ingredients, decent cuts of meat or indeed interesting produce of any variety. Our kitchen in our little rented house has surely the worst electric stovetop known to man.

The thing is, though, that I really love food. I love thinking about it, reading about it, cooking it and eating it. My man loves food and my kids (2 and 5 years old) love food. We both work from home and we eat together every night we can- this usually means dinner at 5 before the kids collapse from exhaustion. Time, access to produce and the need to feed 2 adults and 2 kids at once are issues all parents face in the sometimes herculean task of feeding the family challenging and inspiring food on a daily. This blog is about my day to day cooking. These days,this mostly means making food for a family that is hopefully not (shudder) “family food”.