It’s winter now in the southern hemisphere. The days are short, the darkness is long, and ok, I get that our friends in the far north are probably having a chuckle because actually, we still get daylight for a solid 10 hours a day and when they hit winter, they get oh about two. But I digress. Winter is a really tough time for me. Not in the least because I’m always always freezing, but because all I want to get in my face is SWEET STUFF.
I’ve been freelance writing for a while now and one of (if not THE) tenets of writing of any kind is to pick a topic and just stay with it. Don’t go off on a tangent, don’t get distracted, just stick with one idea. Well, we all know how bad I am with that. When I started thinking about this blog post, a million ideas popped into my head and, after careful consideration, I narrowed it down to three:
I posted this photo of my spaghetti and meatballs on Instagram the other day and made everyone hungry. Hah, so humble, me. No really, so many people liked it, but I wonder if they’d still like it if they knew these were healthy baked meatballs with hidden veggies?
I suspect the mums are all like YEAHHHH and everyone else just closed this window.
Every year when summer rolls around, I throw a little party on the inside because with summer comes mango. Up the top of my list of favourite fruits (right there next to longans) mango has long been a love mine, my childhood dotted with memories of trailing after my dad at the local flea market and buying entire boxes of Bowen mangoes for $2.
Oh my God, honey joys. Does anyone even remember these things? I’m pretty sure that finding the recipe for honey joys on the side of a Kelloggs Cornflakes box resulted in my maiden foray into baking. It doesn’t get any simpler than this: butter, sugar, honey, cornflakes. And the results are seriously delicious.
When I woke up today, it was announced to me that I have a four year old (by said four year old)! It’s actually kind of crazy that four years ago, I became a mother – it feels like just yesterday, and yet it feels like forever at the same time.