Whether you call it a blogging birthday or an anniversary I just hit a big milestone. Feast Wisely turned five years old. I started this creative foodie outlet in January 2014 and almost 250 posts later my own diet has transitioned massively. I’ve gone from a meat based to a pretty much vegetarian or plant based … Continue reading
Practice makes perfect they say. If only this applied to blogging. Every post we publish would get more views and comments than those that came before it. Every time we put pen to paper the words would flow more easily. And with every draft would come less editing….If this holds true for you then give … Continue reading
Although I love to cook the electric gadgets in my kitchen are pretty thin on the ground. There’s the obvious kettle and toaster as well as my ‘can’t live without’ stick blender….but that’s about it. I don’t even own a microwave let alone a slow cooker. In our last apartment we installed a fancy Miele … Continue reading
Being hangry is now official. Why? Because in early 2018 it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary along with over 1,000 other new entries. In my last post I talked about ‘me time’ as a new dictionary entry and when I spotted ‘hangry’ on the new words list I couldn’t resist sharing this news … Continue reading
We just moved house. Well strictly speaking we moved units. I say that because house prices in Sydney have skyrocketed so much in recent years that you now need a cool $1 million (and more) to purchase an ‘average’ Sydney house. It’s a city where opting for a unit/apartment can be the only way to … Continue reading
Too often I’ve been tempted by a Middle Eastern recipe only to be disappointed after spotting preserved lemons on the list of ingredients. Not because I dislike preserved lemons but rather they’re not a pantry staple and, until recently, making them myself hadn’t crossed my mind. But my ‘preserved lemons recipe disappointment’ is now a thing of … Continue reading
I’ve talked before about the wonders of sauerkraut as a fermented food and detailed my husband’s method of making it. With just a few simple ingredients and tools it’s very easy to turn ordinary cabbage into extraordinary sauerkraut. And for a heavy hit of good bacteria (probiotics) homemade is the only way to go.Homemade versus … Continue reading
