Lifestyled by Paula Joye

I made this during the Big Wet last weekend while staying with my parents in the mountains. My Dad loves strudel and I love my Dad – so it was a love festival making this for him. I ended up making four in total because we were also rolling with a couple of extra kids READ MORE…

Clothes weren’t the only things ‘designer’ last week at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia. Between backstage interviews and front row seats, The Fash Pack were drinking a cocktail designed especially for MBFWA. It was delicious. Cool name, cool look – make one at home tonight. The Catwalk Collins Ciroc Vodka is the base, which is aromatic READ MORE…

We were away for the Easter break at Blueys Beach – a magical place that my parents have been taking me to since I was a child and I love being able to take my own kids there now I’m the grown-up. We have many food rituals when on holiday there – most of them READ MORE…

From one of my favourite food blogs – the awesome Toasty Biscuit – comes this Friday baking treat. Children, husbands, friends and foes alike will love this crazy slice. It’s the hazelnut and banana combo that makes it so moresih. It’s a snitch to make – let me know how you go.

Back from down South and baking up a storm. Makes me feel like home when I fill the house with the sweet smell of yummy. Hopped on to one of my favourite food sites this morning – the genius that is Smitten Kitchen – and tried her Double Coconut Muffins. Kids have them in lunch READ MORE…

Christmas lunch is at my Mum’s house and I am on dessert duty. I’ve decided to make a Christmas Lemon Meringue Pie. This is the easiest pie you will ever make. Ever.

I can bake anything but canapes scare me. Maybe it’s the tiny part?? I had some delicious canapes at a function recently and went into the kitchen to ask chef David Allison from Stix Catering to put together three easy-to-make, crowd-pleaser canapes for us to cook at home.

I first met Donna Hay when I was a fashion assistant and she was a food stylist. Back then we both spent an unhealthy amount of time packing boxes at the back of studio in East Sydney. This was long before Donna became a household name and yet she was then as she is now READ MORE…