Roving Lemon's Big Adventure

Pavlova season (and eating-outside season for that matter) is pretty well over in Canberra as of this week; we turned the clocks back ov...

I wouldn't want you to get the impression, based upon yesterday's post, that I didn't have a smashing time on my Melbourne tr...

Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time will have come across me lamenting the cheese landscape in Australia. In fact, the ...

This post originally appeared on April 27, 2009 and is re-posted here with slight modifications.  Today, April 25, is ANZAC Day. It is s...

This is the Sunday lunch dessert I mentioned last week . If you are not familiar with pavlova, it is a (maybe the ) quintessential ant...

In the US, we call them “bar cookies”; in the UK, they are “tray bakes”. Here in Australia, anything you can mix up, spread in your s...

Miss B is on winter break from school – two weeks off in the middle of July between the second and third terms of the Australian school ...

I worried a little bit that Friday’s post might come across as mawkish or proselytizing, especially since I wrote it to myself as much as a...

We were back in Jervis Bay this weekend, this time to rent a cottage on the beach so that we could give our US visitors a glimpse of the Aus...

It takes the Australian mind to bring together two great Australian traditions: the barbeque and the full cooked breakfast. Eggs, bacon, sau...

I’ve previously expounded upon my love for farmers’ markets in general and the Canberra one in particular, but, given my lack of a car and ...

Did you know that macadamia nuts are originally from Australia? I didn’t. I’d always associated them with Hawaii, probably because of those ...

from top: chocolate bilby ; Miss B's first take-home cooking project from preschool--decorated Easter biscuits; Easter cupcakes; supe...

I finally made it to the Canberra Farmers’ Market last weekend. (It only took six months.) This is one of the things that I want to do here ...

A couple of years ago, back when people were just starting to raise questions about high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), my sister C. sent out a...

Following good advice makes life so much easier sometimes. Especially when it comes to dinner. It all started with 5 second rule ’s usefu...

We haven’t gotten around to buying a car yet, because a) we’re lazy and b) our garage door is jammed shut and until we figure out how to get...

Canberra isn’t really a city. It’s very nice: lots of greenspace, plenty of good shops and restaurants, well planned and mellow. It’s also t...