Black Ginger Martini anyone???

On a warm evening in Bali, we went for the usual pre-dinner drinks. We selected a lovely beach-side bar and perused the cocktail list (my nieces’ refused to drink the local brew – Bintang). ‘Hmmm the Black Ginger Martini sounds delicious, what’s in it?’ we asked, ‘Madam, it is a martini with black ginger’ was the well informed and enthusiastic response. ‘Oh.right.great……errrrr we’ll have 6, thank you’  Read More

Celebrity-Chef hags!

Shez, Adrian & me On Friday night I went to La Luna, a fab restaurant in Carlton (Melbourne) with my hubby and friends Shez & Lizard. Chef Adrian Richardson is renowned for his skills and, now I have met him I can tell you first hand, a great bloke too (subtle name dropping). As we were seated, Lizard mused aloud ‘I wonder if Adrian is making my dinner tonight’, we all laughed thinking the Celebrity Chef would be out on the town on this cold, Winters night.... Read More