One very slack blogger....

Time has flown this year...have done plenty of cooking and bugger all blogging! Apologies.

Today I made the italian beef ragu from the www.taste.com.au website and my kitchen smells incredible.

Also made pasta to go with it...not sure if the texture will be ok...400g flour and 4 eggs and some salt and it was far too dry...added an extra egg yolk and it seemded to be ok but when i put it through the pasta machine it seemed really dry.

I guess I will know tonight when I cook it....fingers crossed!

Cooking slow down

Apologies to all who are following my blog...my cooking has been a little boring lately mainly due to work pressures. Hoping to get back into the swing of things this weekend now that our conference is over for another year.

Port Douglas was lovely but so humid...felt like I sweated bucket loads during the 4 days I was up there. Gorgeous place. Resort was great.

Wild mushroom risotto at Il Pescatore in the Sheraton Mirage at Port Douglas was delicious...so was the dark chocolate panna cotta.

Only saw 1 cane toad in the wild...very disappointed at that as I thought they would be everywhere.