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Continue reading →: Tis the Season to #getgiftedIt’s officially the Christmas season now – Thanksgiving is over and I am now fully ready move onto Christmas. Christmas Party season is officially in full swing and tonight I attended the Christmas Party to end all Christmas Parties- the Kate Spade New York Holiday Party. If you don’t know…
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Continue reading →: Festive season tip!Now that it’s December and we’ve had our annual Thanksgiving Party (a week later but better than never!), I can finally start to focus on Christmas! My first act of the festive season- using up the eggnog from our party! If I had my way, I would drink it- this…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes things just don’t go to plan…
The Runner’s race today is a great example of a day when things just don’t go well. There was nothing he did wrong and nothing he could have done better- but the triathlon gods just didn’t smile on him today. Going into the race, he felt fitter than ever, confident…
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Continue reading →: Happy Thanksgiving- but not in Australia…
So as you probably know by now, Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday. For me, it’s a holiday that cuts across everything that can divide us- religion, region, race, nationality- and all the other thousand things that people find to fight about and wage wars over. At the heart of Thanksgiving…
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Continue reading →: How to Win Friends And Influence People…
Bake. People love baked goods. And I’ve been baking. Brownies. Weekly. Every week for the last 6 weeks. Different Types. Every Week. And bringing them to work on a Monday. I’m not sure whether my work mates are just being polite and humoring me or if they actually like the brownies…
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Continue reading →: Sunday baking…salted caramel browniesReally, there’s not a lot to say except that I baked brownies for the second Sunday in a row…. In a row! Let’s not make this a habit….although I’ve worked out that I can bribe one of my work colleagues with brownies, so I may be baking more and more.…
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Continue reading →: Happy birthday!
He Runs, I Cook is three today! No celebrations are planned but thanks for reading and keeping in touch! Here’s to an exciting and delicious year ahead!
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Continue reading →: BBQs and Anniversary Brews…For our 1st anniversary, I gave The Runner a BBQ and Beer Cooking Class at the BBQ School in Willougby. It was a 2 part class led by two chefs, Ben, an Aussie Chef who previously worked with Marco Pierre White in London, and Seamus, an Irish Chef who we…
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Continue reading →: Doing the DoubleThis weekend we managed to pull off not one but two dinner parties- Friday night and Sunday night. I’m not going to lie, I was a little tired on Monday morning. I couldn’t have done it without the Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. More specifically, I couldn’t have done it without the…
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Continue reading →: Oh Vienna, This Means Nothing to Me….Our Austrian Adventure Part 2aka When I sing Ultravox for two days straight…. So we packed up from Zell Am See and headed East past Salzburg (where we had been the day before) towards Vienna. And I swear, I cannot even hear the word Vienna without thinking of this… The 1981 hit by Ultravox. …
