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There is nothing quite like sitting down to a meal with people you love.

For me, food has always been a way of connecting with people and nurturing my relationships. There’s something special about slowing down, sharing, and connecting with friends and family over food and conversation.

Once upon a time, during our early Berlin years, dinner parties were rowdy, all-night affairs – the kind where every guest brings a bottle of wine and every drop gets drunk. After becoming parents, dinners became more intimate

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Recipes

Beetroot & Black Bean Burgers

Delicious and nutritious patties that can be paired with any of your favourite burger fillings.

Cardamom & Apple-Rose Cakes

A recipe from my second cookbook - Vegan Goodness: FEASTS.

Pregnancy Power Smoothie

I’ve consumed this smoothie in almost every day since my queasy first trimester began. Sometimes twice.

Mushroom Risotto with Prosecco and Pine Nuts

Old recipe, new photo. Enjoy!

Protein Power Waffles

Earlier this year, in an attempt to sneak varying fruits and vegetables into my fussy toddler, I bought a waffle maker.

Double Peanut Choc Chip Cookies

A delicious and easy cookie recipe that is great for baking with toddlers.

Pregnancy Power Porridge

A legitimate porridge mania has taken over Melbourne this winter and this version is a nutritional powerhouse.

Peking Tofu Pancakes

Simple but satisfying savory pancakes filled with cucumber, tofu and insane-in-the-membrane sauce.

Family Noodle Bowl

With extra satay sauce on the side for all your dunking, slathering and slurping pleasure.

Nut Roast

Always the first thing to go at family dinners and friendly get togethers because it is just so damn good.

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On Motherhood

We believe that motherhood is the highest form of manifestation of the genius of the creative spirit of nature.

Jess and Louie’s Birth Story

To this day I feel ecstatic when I think about my birth. It was hands down the coolest thing I have ever done.

Tips & Recipes for Milk Supply

Some bits of advice I picked up along the way that helped me to have a really nice time breastfeeding.

On Children – Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.

Pregnancy: Read, Watch, Do.

Childbirth can be one of the coolest things you will ever experience and it is your right as a birthing person to conquer it fearlessly.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

I am 38 weeks pregnant and my belly is moving all over the place, entertaining and distracting me as I attempt to write the first post for this new section of my blog.