The Hut Chronicles

Maggie: They are both growing up, literally and in their behaviour.  In a rare semi-serious mood, the rest of the photos Maggie was pul...

A lovely quiet weekend. Saturday was sunny and warmish, so we opened up all the doors of the hut and headed into my flower garden to weed. T...

Hello again. I couldn't resist posting twice. As you know I was at a conference all week, and as you do, I ate morning tea, lunch an...

Hello. Sorry I'm late. I've flat out this week with the conference booth, so have only just got the chance to create my weekly menu ...

It was quite a grey old weekend in the end. I was hoping for some more sunshine, but it was still nice to relax at home. We felt quite good ...

Well this last week was all about one thing the cake. My sister sent me a text a while ago with a photo of a Hoot cake (up until that point...

So first up, today is a special day at the hut. A year ago today we invited our closest friends and family down to the hut for Rob's bi...

This weekend was all about cheese. I can't believe I ate cheese with bread or crackers for dinner three nights in a row. Well actually,...

How can it be the last week of March already? This last week flew by, with my trip up to Brisbane, the weekend was upon us before we knew i...

We're making the most of the late summer/early autumn produce at the moment. I didn't mention that we visited a friend on Friday ev...

I'll let the photos do the talking. Soup, steak, spaghetti puttanesca, soup, cheese, lime and chilli chicken, chicken pilaf, macarons. ...

Ok so at least we got back to regular meal times this week. It was cool earlier in the week so we felt like warming foods. Monday was a ro...

Being on holidays is good, we've been able to eat when it suits us, although that has been quite late some nights. The Weber has been b...

Lamb souvlaki and soup. Had to have the souvlaki with out pitta bread, as the ones we had bought were a little green when we went to use the...

The end of the working week found us shopping, first at Bottega Rotolo for cheese, and Christmas treats such as glacé clementines and chocol...

What a weekend hey? (Sorry for those of you not in Tasmania, the weather was quite perfect, warm days and evenings- even got up to 30 on Sun...

I updated my camera app on the phone yesterday and it's been misbehaving ever since. So my picture of the sage flowers is a little dodgy...

We had a great cooking week this week. With the warm weather (even in the evenings) we have been using the Weber BBQ to cook as much as poss...

A varied selection this week- Monday- was a silver beet duck egg omelette Tuesday- Left over rump steak, was transformed into an open stea...