Tiny Pleasures

Tiny Pleasures #301: Delicious Drizzles

2024-10-28T20:00:54+11:00October 28th, 2024|food, Tiny Pleasures|

I love veggies and I love them even more with a drizzle of something delicious. The Phoenix Olive Oil and Springmount Black Garlic Drizzle took my dinner to a whole new level. I'm not hungry anymore, but I want to eat another bowl just for the flavour. Thanks to the Kingston Food and Wine Festival

Tiny Pleasures #300: Patisserie

2024-10-27T21:15:36+11:00October 27th, 2024|food, French, Tiny Pleasures|

Pain chocolat, croissant, pain au raisin, croissant aux amandes ... The buttery goodness of French patisseries is an excellent way to make Sunday afternoon better. After singing beaucoup de French songs at the Le Festival Français in Geelong today, my tastebuds were happy to stroll through the grounds tasting beaucoup de delicious French treats. More

Tiny Pleasures #299: Tasty Stage

2024-10-26T22:11:02+11:00October 26th, 2024|food, music, Tiny Pleasures, Wine|

Is this not a heavenly combination? A stage full of music and fine food and drinks. The Kingston Food & Wine Festival had all the right ingredients today, including sunshine, and I got to do two of my favourite things - play music and talk about great produce.

Tiny Pleasures #298: ANZAC Biscuits

2024-10-25T22:21:09+11:00October 25th, 2024|food, Tiny Pleasures|

The ANZAC is my default biscuit when I'm short on baking creativity. It feels like the workhorse of bikkies when I'm making the batch, but when they come out of the oven I am always delightfully surprised at just how delicious they are. Crunchy on the outside, chewy inside, sweet, buttery, and oaty. Yum!

Tiny Pleasures #297: Strawberries

2024-10-24T21:57:08+11:00October 24th, 2024|food, garden, Tiny Pleasures|

While hanging the washing out today, a flash of red in the veggie patch caught my eye. Twas the first strawberry of the season flaunting its fruitiness in the afternoon sunshine. Its bottom is not ready yet, but in few days I shall savour the tiny burst of flavour. Tis the flavour of the promise

Tiny Pleasures #296: Judith Lucy

2024-10-23T22:05:16+11:00October 23rd, 2024|books, people, Tiny Pleasures, Words|

I do love it when an excellent book lands in my lap at exactly the right time. I read some excerpts of Judith Lucy's latest book, Turns Out, I'm Fine, from the Book Bar on the weekend. The snippets were so good I dashed off the library on Monday to borrow it in order to

Tiny Pleasures #294: Beer With A View

2024-10-22T21:38:33+11:00October 21st, 2024|architecture, bar, Tiny Pleasures, Travel|

If you're in Queenscliff on a nice day, I highly recommend wandering into the Vue Grand Hotel, grabbing a drink from the bar, then taking three flights of stairs up to the roof top. There you are treated to a 360 degree view of the town and the surrounding waters. If you're lucky - as

Tiny Pleasures #293: New Project Success

2024-10-20T22:04:51+11:00October 20th, 2024|books, Tiny Pleasures, Words|

It was so much fun taking my Book Bar out for the first time this weekend to the Queenscliffe Literary Festival. I rolled around the streets reading book exerpts to people (and the occasional song). It's so exciting when I make a new project and it works beautifully. I met the loveliest people, had great

Tiny Pleasures #292: Queenscliff Lighthouse

2024-10-19T21:09:23+11:00October 19th, 2024|architecture, nature, Tiny Pleasures, Travel|

I will never tire of walking the back beach at Queenscliff. This evening it was low tide and the beach was wide and flat. The birds were busy catching dinner, floating on the salty wind as the sun splashed gold on the water and the lighthouse high on the dune.

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