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Tag Archives: Happiness
The last couple of weeks at Chez Bee
Some of the goings on around my neck of the woods…
Posted in A farmers' market cornucopia, Dinner, Drinks, Food, Gardening, Snapshot
Tagged Australia, Autumn, Cooking, Dinner, Farmer's market, Farmers' markets, Food, Gardening, Happiness, Inspiration, Local food, Preserving, Tomatoes, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Yummy sounding recipes from around the blogosphere
Hi folks Some yummy sounding recipes from around the blogosphere that I would like to try. As I was gazing at them I thought that maybe you’d like to try them too. So here they are: Homemade chai and chai concentrate … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Drinks, Food, Inspiration, Lunch, Recipe, Snapshot
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Dinner, Drinks, Happiness, Inspiration, Lunch, Recipe, Vegetarian
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Welcome to 2013
Hello everyone, How are you? I hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing Christmas-New Year period. At Chez Bee it was all about family, friends and food. Oh and soaking up the way that time seems to slow down … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dinner, Food, Health, Inspiration
Tagged Australia, Christmas, Cooking, Dinner, Food, Happiness, Health, Inspiration, Jamie Oliver, New year's resolutions, Vegetables
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Yummy
Look what my darling Mr Bee made for me last weekend: It is Sheila’s Pudding from Jamie Oliver’s Return of the Naked Chef made with Queensland winter-grown strawberries and frozen Victorian organic blueberries. Heaven!
Posted in Dinner, Food, Local, Snapshot
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Dessert, Dinner, Farmer's market, Farmers' markets, Food, Fruit, Happiness, Inspiration, Jamie Oliver, Local food, Winter
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Soup season
It’s cold outside, wet too and there’s nothing quite like a big steamy bowl of soup with sourdough toast and butter. I hope your autumn is not too cold, has a bit more sun in it than mine and you … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Food, Lunch
Tagged Australia, Autumn, Bread, Cooking, Dinner, Food, Happiness, Lunch, Make your own, Spring, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Mid-week wedding anniversary…saved
Last week was Mr Bee’s and my third wedding anniversary. We both had a long hard work day and had hmmm, I admit, failed to organise anything. On my way home I decided this just wouldn’t do and stopped off … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Food
Tagged Australia, Dinner, Food, Happiness, Wedding anniversary
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This summer in my kitchen…
Posted in Breakfast, Dinner, Drinks, Food, Inspiration, Lunch, Snapshot
Tagged Australia, Bread, Breakfast, Cooking, Dinner, Food, Happiness, Inspiration, Jam, Local food, Lunch, Make your own, Organic, Preserving, Summer, Vegetables
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Pear and apple google indulgence
Please indulge me for this post. I’m slightly in shock, good shock though. So good that I’m about to toot my own horn, because I can’t think who’d appreciate this more than my lovely readers. I hope you don’t mind. … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Inspiration, Random
Tagged Australia, Cooking, Food, Fruit, Google, Happiness, Inspiration, Jam, Preserving, Recipe, Recipes
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Simple pleasures in a tea cup
One small bunch of lemon balm from the garden, a mug, boiling water. Lemon…yes, but also a slight sense of heat like in ginger.
Posted in Drinks, Food, Gardening, Make your own, Recipe, Uncategorized
Tagged Australia, Food, Gardening, Happiness, Herbs, Local food, Make your own, Recipe, Summer, Tea
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Bookish inspiration
I’m currently reading The Real Food Companion (at Fishpond and Amazon). Yeah, it’s a recipe book, yep I’m reading it cover to cover. It’s not just that I’m that sort of person who likes to read recipe books for relaxation, I do, but it’s also (trust me) … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment, Ethics, Food, Gardening, Inspiration, Local
Tagged Australia, Book, Cooking, Dinner, Environment, Farmer's market, Farming, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Happiness, Health, Inspiration, Make your own, Organic, Preserving, Recipe, Vegetables
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