Lifestyled by Paula Joye

Country Road Kids are celebrating ten years with cake! And it’s good. The new range can be viewed on this video or via a very cool downloadable catalogue that lets you shop the looks on the spot.

I make a pretty mean pavlova. But only after making hundreds of them. Most of which were hopeless – too sweet, too brittle, too flat. Slowly, over time I think I’ve managed to crack the code to nailing this perfect, fluffy, crowd-pleasing dessert. There are three golden rules. 1) Use room temperature eggs. They whip READ MORE…

Fourth of July was my favourite holiday growing up because of the food and the flags. There was always lots of both. This recipe is from Martha Stewart and it’s the best shortcake you will ever make. And eat. The genius is that the biscuit stays crisp even with the cream and fruit filling.

On the weekend I went away to the mountains (the Blue ones). It was cold, nippy awesome meat pie weather. So I dusted off this recipe for Beef Pot Pies from Bill Granger’s book “Feed Me Now”. This recipe makes six individual pies which I love because there’s nothing nicer than being given your own READ MORE…

When it comes to comfort food – cookies and chocolate don’t always cut it. Next to mash potato (best recipe here) my “feeling fragile” favourite is a good, made-with-love chicken soup. This recipe from Martha Stewart has a warmness about it that’s like a hug from a small child. A chicken and rice classic – it’s medicine READ MORE…

I made it on the weekend and the whole thing was gone by Sunday night – and that’s not just because my family and I have no will power when it comes to pie – it’s because this desert is on another level.

I haven’t been particularly impressed by magazine Apps yet. It’s great that many now offer digital versions of their titles but that’s not really an App is it? Enter Martha Stewart. Leave it to the Queen of Detail to get it right. The Martha Stewart Living App is simply breathtaking. Still in magazine form (with READ MORE…