Last Saturday, Sydney gained it’s first (and only) real food restaurant and I was lucky enough to score a table on opening night. Chic Pea, a joint effort between chef and food wizard Fouad Kassab and the always smiling and ever-so-welcoming hospitality guru Hesham El Masry, is a Middle Eastern permanent-pop-up-restaurant of sorts with a strong basis in the philosophies…
Kale Coated Roast Potatoes
One weekend, not too long ago, I had a glut of kale and potatoes that were just crying out to be turned into something delightful. We love kale, and we love potatoes. There are about a million ways to use both, but I wanted to do something new and exciting. Something that fused the two…
HHH Book Club – Book Two!
A quick post today, announcing our second book for the Homemade, Healthy, Happy Real Food Book Club! It’ll be hard to top Michael Pollan’s Cooked, I think. I deliberated over book 2 for quite a while because of this. And I actually ended up choosing something quite similar! Similar in the sense that, like Cooked, it…
HHH Book Club – Final Thoughts on Cooked
I am still just as in awe of Michael Pollan (and his book, ‘Cooked’) as I was when I first started listening to the book. Okay, I kind of knew going into it that I would love it. Michael Pollan is sensible. The book was about traditional foods and cooking methods. If ever there…