Food & Cooking

Instant Bircher muesli. Free breast cancer screening. What have you learned lately?

Women are gatherers of information. Compulsively. All the time. Some of it is not very important (the names of Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller's twin babies are... [read more]

What’s your no-fail dinner?

It seems I'm not the only one who is jack of dinner. When I tweeted recently about being uninspired about making dinner and wishing that dinner could be more like... [read more]

Pray you never go to a dinner party ‘inspired’ by this cookbook

the cover of the semen cookbook I thought I'd post this one well before lunch. Not since vagina cupcakes have I been able to categorise a post under both "sex" and "food & cooking". Are you... [read more]

Could you do meat-free Mondays to save the planet? Gwyneth does.

I'm trying to eat less meat. You can read about my flirtations with vegetarianism here. Not for the planet (I had only the dimmest idea that meat was bad for the... [read more]

School lunch. Discuss.

Most parents find making school lunches A BIG FAT PUNISH. Or is that just me? What did you take for lunch as a kid? If you're a parent, what do you pack for your... [read more]

What will be on your Christmas dining table this year?

Prompted by the wild success of our first annual Mamamia DIY Christmas Gift Guide where we pooled our collective brain cells to solve every possible gift-giving... [read more]

Detox is the new word for diet.

Been on a diet detox lately? Because it appears they have become the same thing. It's just that if you say you're on a diet, you risk having people try and talk... [read more]

What went down at your dinner table last night?

Mine wasn't so much a dinner table as my lap. Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the Media140 conference which was about journalism in the age of social media... [read more]

What’s for dinner at yours tonight?

I haven't done this post for a while but it's back by popular demand. Those needing inspiration for what to cook tonight and those wanting to inspire, it's time... [read more]

And then I set fire TO THE EMPTY OVEN

If you are regular and observant, you may have noticed I didn't post yesterday. Except for a new frockwatch. This is because it was a public holiday in NSW,... [read more]