What do you do when you're generously gifted a beautiful 24 cm duck egg blue Chasseur French Oven from the team at Smudge Eats. Well you bake bread, don't you?     Okay, so baking bread might not be the first thing that pops to mind when you're looking to christen a new cast iron pot - but it turns out they make for the perfect dutch oven.   Now...bread and I are long term partners - you won't see me ever ditching my beloved sourdough, because life is way too short to not be able to relish in the smell... [ READ MORE ]

I’m quite partial to a hearty bowl of steaming, thick porridge for breakfast, but sometimes this warm bowl of comfort just doesn’t cut it. For example, during those times when the 15-20 mins required at the stovetop to delicately stir those precious rolled or steel cut oats to creamy perfection, is just too much of a commitment, or on those summer days (or let's be honest during this current random hot October weather we have been experiencing in Melbourne!) when the weather forecast predicts that you very well might get a hot flush from downing porridge for breakfast.    ... [ READ MORE ]