Something new!

Hey! Today I'm launching a newsletter, my first ever. It's called To All the Recipes I've Loved Before and it's going to be filled with the best online recipes I've cooked in the past month. It started as a spreadsheet of new recipes I want to try, which I add to every week and visit whenever I'm out of ideas. Just for fun, I've been ranking the recipes as I make them and keeping notes so I know which ones to come back to.

Hopefully it brings comfort and a tiny bit of joy in these still weird times with so many people at home. Here's the link if you'd like to sign up! I'll send the first edition in a week or so. It'll feature this pillowy soft milk bread that you can make in a morning and enjoy with salted butter and jam for afternoon tea. Yum.

The newsletter's very cute design is by Adele Packer who featured on the blog six years ago when I started it while living in Wagga Wagga :) 

Distracting things

Hello from wherever this weekend finds you. While things are mostly normal in Canberra (this mask pic is from weeks ago), I'm still checking the news non-stop because I think it will somehow help  (it really doesn't!). But today I did see that my age group will be eligible for the vaccine soon, which could be as early as next month. As someone who has worried a lot throughout the whole pandemic and felt nervous about things I'm allowed to do (like going into the office every now and then) I am excited about having a date for leaving some of that behind. 

In the meantime, I've just pulled a batch of malted brownies out of the oven and we're ordering pizza with gorgonzola and mascarpone on it for dinner :) A couple of nice things to share: 

Living on your own in your 20s then 30s.

Ocean Vuong's very moody playlist is perfect for rainy days and winter runs.

An extract from Sally Rooney's new novel. Loved it!

I'm really enjoying and craving exercise atm and always love sampling studios when they go online during lockdowns. I've been working my way through the IGTV classes from Good Vibes in Melbourne and Scout Pilates after hearing about them on Highly Enthused. Their live classes are $12 and they send you the vid after, and it's been a nice way to ease myself into some pilates. It's so much harder than yoga 😜

And a nice idea for anyone sending gifts to Sydney friends and fam - HarvestBites is run by OzHarvest, and they team up with chefs to deliver make-at-home meals, which go on to fund meals for those in need.

Tiny break

I made my own long weekend and took Friday off... originally to visit Sydney people I really miss! Instead I've been planning some lockdown deliveries, especially for the second week because a few Melbourne friends have said it can often be a bit more challenging than the first.  

Other than that it's been lots of little good things - baking lots of bread, starting The Bold Type (hooray for a new-to-me show with five seasons), and slowly making a lasagne while bingeing a new Britney podcast. 

I've also been getting used to mask-wearing for the first time. As someone who has always been very nervous (and sometimes overly cautious) about the pandemic, it's been super reassuring to see people in the city take it up so quickly.

Big love to anyone still in lockdown. Hope it's a manageable week X