Omelette - yum

Goumet Dining Day in the Bay Area

Lunch at Slated Door and Dinner at Chez Panisse - what could be better?

Nancy makes pierogis at home...

Merry Christmas!

Today we are having a fabulous Christmas. We started with lovely French toast with maple syrup and (for Nancy) blueberry topping. We admired our treee and the manu cool ornaments (including a special bird ornament from Joann). We are off now for Christmas dinner with our friends Rogen and Karen.

Great Beachside Dinner

Spent the morning at yet MORE markets, then the afternoon included a very QUICK trip to Humpty Doo, where I bought some great Aboriginal art (painting and didgeridoo).








Today was the last day of the conference, and after catching the last sessions Annette and I had a great dinner at a restaurant overlooking Cullen Bay. We both had the mud crabs (outrageously good and HUGE!) and Annette scored the dessert of the evening - a great little pavlova...

French Dinner

Tonight we had a great French diner with friends, including French Onion soup. We each cooked our own receipes. Magnifique!

Thai Coconut Soup

Tonight while Tim was at a football game (sitting in a corporate box, no less!) I am my friend Annette made a scrumptious thai coconut and chicken soup with fresh lemongrass - yum!

First Thanksgiving in Brisbane

This year for the first time since moving to Australia we actually had a real Thanksgiving meal with turkey, stuffing, homemae cranberry sauce and great pumpkin pies (both large and mini-versions!). The dinner was hosted by our friend Meg from Boston.

A great dinner

Today my friend Kate and I were in Adelaide for some meetings. For dinner last night we ate at the Manse, a terrific restaurant located in a beautiful Victorian Mansion built in 1884. We had the duck (as Kate and I usually do when we go out to eat) and I had chocolate souffle for dessert. Yum!

Lovely Dinner with Friends

Today my PhD student from Portugal Daniela and her partner Carlos came to dinner at our home before flying back to Portugal to spend Christmas with their families. Daniela baked the most delicious Portuguese dessert... most of which I ate myself the next day!

Peking Duck for Tim

After a nice weekend of shopping, good food, some lazing about and visits with friends, we ended the weekend having a fantastic dinner of Peking Duck...

Talk on Sunshine Coast

Did a talk today on the Sunshine Coast for the local psychologist's group. We are happy to be up here as we will be able to sample the food at the local street market, including Polish food, esp. pierogis!

Another Post Cancer Dinner!

This evening we went to a great restaurant, Eve's on the River, with another group of friends to continue the celebration of the end of my treatments... We were a large group and had lots of excellent wine and food... and I again had the duck!

Eggplant Parmiagana

Today I made some eggplant parmiagana - very good to have on these cold winter days...