Melissa Loh

Disclaimer: The SmartBottle™ was provided courtesy of frank green for review. I am not financially compensated for this post.    After my mishap […]

After repeatedly being tempted by Crave Gold Coast’s Instagram porn of Elk Espresso, we headed down there for breakfast on a mini weekend getaway down the coast. It was also conveniently enroute to Tallebudgera Creek, where we were planning to spend most of the morning.

I had such a great time making the first quilt with the Fat Quarter Shop’s Jelly Roll Jam II pattern, […]

King Arthur Cafe deserved at least three visits. Tucked off down Arthur Street (just off the much busier James Street), King Arthur Cafe is the latest offering from the same team behind the South Brisbane cafe Merriweather, so it’s no surprise they have a similar ethos – local and sustainable.

What little I’ve seen of hen’s parties hasn’t been pretty. Pink tutus, sequin sashes, tacky plastic crowns, penis straws, drunken shenanigans, gyrating male flesh and embarrassing games are just not my idea of a good time. With that said, I wasn’t the least bit hesitant to attend good friend A’s hen’s party. She had organised an evening painting and drinking at the Cork and Chroma in South Brisbane.at the Cork and Chroma in South Brisbane.

Here’s an adaptation of my mum’s recipe for sambal tumis, which uses belachan and I use as a condiment. It works really great with fried chicken, omelettes and fried rice/vermicelli.

Trawling through Pinterest, I found a tutorial on how to sew a lovely wild flower pincushion, which also included the pattern. It took me awhile to work it out and I was lucky to find some additional tips from another blog.

I recently had to take prednisone, which is an oral immunosuppressant drug and wasn’t very good about the weaning off schedule. What happened afterwards shocked me – I have psoriasis.

“I know we think there’s no difference in packaged pasta, but there is. Trrrrrry.”, my girlfriend begged. Well, then… if I’m going to make a comparison, I might as well compare them all.

If you’ve been following me on Twitter and Instagram, you might have noticed an increasing number of photos about things growing in our balcony garden. So I was excited with Lizzie of Strayed From the Table asked if I would be interested in joining a Garden Blog Hop. I have said ‘yes’ and am looking forward to making regular updates about how well (and poorly) the garden is going.

This baked bean curry is literally one of the urgh-no-time-to-cook recipe I fall back on all the time. It is also mindbogglingly cheap to make and it was a regular menu item during my university days.