Summers in France – a Beautiful New Book

Elizabeth — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:46:58 +0000

This book had me at hello…or bonjour. Summers in France by Kathryn M Ireland. Some books take a bit of browsing through, to convince you they are nice. This one grabs you immediately.

I nearly only bought one copy, just to take home, not sell in the shop. But I thought if I love it you will as well.

If you love the casual Provence style of decorating,beautiful evocative images of tasteful, fun, family oriented rooms, this book is for you.

I only have two copies, and the one that came home with me, but I’m not parting with that. $49.99.

See you in the store.

Regional Foodie – Terrific New Coast Magazine

Elizabeth — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:55:52 +0000

How exciting it this! Next month, at the Noosa Food and Wine Festival, a brand new foodie magazine will be launched.

Regional Foodie will focus on all things gastronomic for the Sunshine Coast. This is a mock up of a cover, just to give us all an idea.

The magazines editor is Lisa Chant who most recently was the editor of our Noosa Weekender magazine. Petra Frieser is the creative director and a food blogger, restaurant reviewer and cookbook author.

We will have the first edition available to buy in the store next month. Come in and have a look. I will let you know as soon as it arrives.

See you in the store.

Mothers Day Display at Simpsons Mitre10

Elizabeth — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:20:48 +0000

As well as the bright colours in kitchenware and tableware around at moment, there is always black and white. Always beautiful. Classic.

We have a great PINK Mothers Day display at the front door, which I’ll show you later in the week, and a lovely black and white display opposite the check-out.

I have made a short movie of the black and white Mothers Day display to show you. Beautiful things.

Click below.

See you in the store.

Lots of Orange Around at the Moment

Elizabeth — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:08:16 +0000

Not so long ago you would have found it challenging to find anything for your home in orange.

Things have changed.

Come in and have a look.

See you in the store.

Enamel Bakeware – Donna Hay and Simpsons Mitre10

Elizabeth — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:45:17 +0000

Well, the weather must be getting cooler.

The cover of the latest Donna Hay magazine is very autumnal.

And the moment it starts getting cool, she breaks out the enamel bakeware.

Love the look of this fennel,chicken,tomato and bean bake.

We have a great range of the enamel bakeware. The next shipment from overseas does not make it to Australia until next month so I hope we have enough to last.

One of our local restaurants bought some smaller pudding/pie tins recently. They will serve sticky date pudding in theirs. YUM!

Come in and have a look.

See you in the store.

Sweet Living – on line Cooking Magazine

Elizabeth — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:44:49 +0000

What’s better than a cooking magazine? An on line cooking magazine!

I have sent you links to lots of great on line magazines. Sweet Paul, Rue, .Lonnymag.

Here is a really lovely one. Sweet Living. Not just cooking, more….lifestyle.

The images are beautiful. The recipes….well look at this. Dark whisky marmalade. I am off to buy the oranges now.

See you in the store.

Just Arrived – Lots of Blackboards

Elizabeth — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:50:08 +0000

Lovely things are still arriving from the Sydney gift fair.

Today it was jugs and blackboards. Lots of both.

I actually went a big mad with blackboards at the giftfair. I LOVE them. Lots of uses around the house.

Mini ones and large heart shaped ones. Large white easels with blackboards.

Come in and have a look.

See you in the store.

Easter Food – from Pinterest

Elizabeth — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:20:53 +0000

Have you visited Pinterest?

A great web page. Designed to allow you to see lots of images, based around a topic if you choose, and then make a pinboard of the images you like.

Also, you can ‘pin’ images to your pinboard from other web pages.

To get started I thought a pinboard about Easter Food.

Click on the image to go to my Pinterest pinboard.

See you in the store.

Wonderful Cooking Magazine – Sweet Paul

Elizabeth — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:40:45 +0000

The latest Sweet Paul magazine is a really lovely edition. In this wet weather, it is great to cuddle up with your iPad and flick through an online cooking magazine. Sweet Paul is one of the best.

Some of the images from the magazine are below.

An article about the best bread shop in New York. Well…. Brooklyn.

Love the Easter rainbow cake.

Easter Flowers

Easter breakfast ideas.
If you want to click through, and read the whole magazine.

Click on the image below.

Have a great read.

See you in the store.

Paella – new paella pans, a great book and more

Elizabeth — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:17:40 +0000

Tonight I am having a go at Paella. A one pot dish. I like the sound of spicy rice, soft at the centre of the pan and a bit crisp at the edges.

I think the secret is in the chorizo sausage.

The recipe is a very simple , by Curtis Stone. Click below to watch him make it. You can get a copy of the recipe in the store.

New paella pans arrived last week. They are the ones Curtis Stone uses in the video. The real deal. Made in Spain. They are enamel coated for easy cleaning. Really nice. Good price.

You may also want to look at the beautiful Paella books we have in stock. By Alberto Herraiz owner of EL FOGÓN, Spanish restaurant in Paris. This is the definitive book on Paella. Beautiful images, great recipes. The book has a calico cover edged in red stitching to match the famous Callasparra paella rice.

All this in a great Paella display. Come in and have a look

See you in the store.