I’m going to keep it short and sweet. It’s been a long week and today I am all kinds of tired. But spring is in the air, and the streets that I walk down daily are blushing red with bottlebrush trees all abloom; last week the kids and I foraged this bunch as we meandered home from the library, and it’s been sitting on my desk ever since. At this very moment I’m en route to a writers festival down south, bub fast asleep in my arms, old friends to catch up with. Life could be worse.
Enjoy!
Sarah x
September Favourites
– This unbelievable whale encounter
– Getting my head around the refugee crisis
– “One of my goals in life is to become truly rabbinical, to be able to answer closed questions with open questions, to have the internal authority to be a good gatekeeper when intruders approach…”, the always-insightful and ever-challenging Rebecca Solnit
– Sprouted Kitchen’s take on Heidi Swanson’s Brown Sugar Tofu & Mushroom Spring Rolls
– Just started reading it, but already loving Fiona Wright’s intelligent and beautifully written collection of essays, Small Acts of Disappearance
– Zhoug Risotto sounds like a mash-up of many favourite things
– This simple and colourful soup looks perfect for mild spring evenings
– Waiting for blackberry season here in Brisbane so I can eat many of these
– Loving all the kiwi recipes from My Darling Lemon Thyme, but these granitas look especially inviting
– Vibrant and vegan nectarine tarts? Yes please!
– Heidi Swanson’s Near & Far Cookbook is just what you would expect: beautiful tactile design, muted images, evocative storytelling, and welcoming inventing recipes
– Coffee. Design. Want.
– Heading down to Newcastle today for Australia’s bestest, craziest writers festival
– “The citizen-control methods of modern western governments are much more low-profile: less jackboot than gumboot.” Margaret Atwood on why we are double-plus unfree
– This house is amazeballs
– A critical – and insightful – take on ‘ethnic’ food trends
– These buns look both interesting and delicious
– Explore Brisbane through the eyes of her poets
– The Misandry Hour! Get podcasting.
– Who can resist golden food?!
– This is from earlier in the year but creamy. cashew. indian. butter. fried. paneer. yes please.
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Photos taken in 2013 at the beautiful Reaching Out Tea House in Hoi An, Vietnam
highgate hill kitchen 
Thanks for the blackberry love, Sarah! 🙂 And for sharing all these other good finds. Really want to make that creamy cashew paneer curry. Enjoy your trip!