Welcome

Hi, I’m Emma

SLOW COOK, SHOPKEEPER, PHOTOGRAPHER, EMOTIONAL EATER, WINE DRINKER (LUCKY I LIVE IN WINE COUNTRY!), MUM & WIFE TO MY IRISHMAN FROM COUNTRY NSW, AUSTRALIA

Welcome to my collection of stories + recipes from a lifelong cook who is obsessed with food.

My family doesn’t come with a big food background. Mum was the first of nine kids to be born in Australia to German Immigrants and is a completely self-taught cook. We are a typical Australian family with smatterings of differing cultures all meshed together. There are Aussie BBQs, German Christmas traditions, and when I married my Irishman, potatoes, stew & soda bread entered the mix, together in one, crazy family

Get To Know Me…

CRAVING

BBQ chips, always

I can’t live without

cheese!!!

sweet or savoury?

savoury

Favorite place

the cotswolds

obsessed with

my camera

FAVE WINE

pinot gris
A Copper frypan of warm Apple and Walnut ANZAC Crumble. There is a scoop of ic cream melting on top and a spoonful of crumble eaten.

Where this all began

I first fell in love with kitchens when I was a kid. My mum worked in a restaurant and I’d help her on weekends buttering garlic bread and fan strawberries (remember those!) before the dinner service. I loved every second.

When I was ten, we moved out of Sydney to a small, rural farming community in the Central West of NSW, where breeding lamb and beef became our everyday. And while I hated it at the time, I now realise it has shaped me into who I am today. Good, seasonal produce is what I cook with day in, and day out. While I don’t live by this to the extreme, it’s something I find quite natural.

Early on, I spent a few years working as a chef, both in Australia and the UK (where I met my Irishman) but eventually learned that cooking commercially just wasn’t my future.  I somehow convinced him to move back home and I now spend my days pottering around the store (our family-owned, culinary + food store) teaching people about good food, and how to cook it. Oh, and did I mention pasta? Because ending the day with a big bowl of pasta and a glass of wine in front of Netflix is what my dreams are made of. You can find my favourite pasta recipe here.

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My top 3 slow-cook recipes…

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