As those on the other side of the world, frolicking about through sprinklers with delicious coconut milk ice creams, may have forgotten, it’s been winter here. A pretty cold one. The lawn froze, Hank reverted to pooping in the house due to his moral objection to said frozen lawn, and apparently I hibernated for a [...]

I’ve always been drawn to aquired tastes, and I tend to regard it as a personal challenge to make myself like something that initially seems… well, less than delicious. It happened with beer, and it happened with black coffee. And in my pre-vegan days, it happened with cheese. Before becoming vegan, I would devour the [...]

Back when I was only vegetarian, and Chadwiko and I had just moved in together, he gave me a homestyle vegetarian cookbook that he’d picked up solely so that I could make him the lasagne in it. With ricotta, a lot of basil, a thick bechamel sauce and pine nuts, it became a quick favourite [...]

So as it turns out, Government workers just might not all be bitter, jaded and grey cardigan-ed. As it turns out, one of them might just be one of the nicest people we’ve come across in some time. One day earlier this week, Chadwiko came home with a giant tub of fresh, delicious-looking cherry tomatoes. [...]