I’m off to Europe! It will be a gastronomically challenging five and a half weeks but some one has got to do it! So that does mean the blog will be on hiatus, but when we return I will be furiously posting the highlights of the eurotrip and other shamefully belated posts. Plus with much better [...]
UPDATE 23/01/2011 – Spanish Flavours has relocated to 413 Oxford St, Mt Hawthorn WA 6016 – see the latest post! A bit of a hidden secret, Spanish Flavours is a shop I’ve been meaning to get to for years! Our family’s procrastination knows no limits- even when my sister lived on Cambridge St, her first [...]
The historical nature of the Swan Valley is usually absent from minds when chasing the rather alcoholic pursuit of wine tasting. We are rather lucky that gastronomic delights tend to follow in the wake of grapes (something to go down with the alcohol I guess). We are also even luckier that this little slice of [...]
Fresh everything After a fine lunch at Chester’s, we went hunting (or gathering) for food in the lusciously green Swan Valley. Gee I love it here, especially in autumn when the grape vines are changing colour and the damns are glistening with water. It’s a beautiful drive along West Swan Road. Anyway, we had a [...]
“Hi ladies, we’ll start with a shot of hot chocolate then feel free to help yourself to the buffet.” STOP. Did he say BUFFET? A chocolate buffet? Yes he did. We look to the other end of Origins and there is the buffet – a silky chocolate fountain flanked with copious amounts of chocolate things. [...]
