Lifestyled by Paula Joye

I feel so guilty about over-ripe bananas sitting in my fruit bowl that I end up making many, many loaves of banana bread. In the spirit of switching things up (I’m devoting June to this) I poured this week’s banana guilt into a cake. I always forget how great a good banana cake is. This READ MORE…

It’s not every day a famous chef cooks you dinner. Last week Curtis Stone was in town for the launch of his new cookbook ‘What’s For Dinner?’ He hosted an intimate dinner at 4Fourteen and showed off his mad cooking skills. His cookbook is full of delicious recipes for a busy life. Something I think we can READ MORE…

My family crave this pasta. I have a radar that tells me when they really need it…long week at school, long week at work – it’s classic Joye comfort food. Over the years, I’ve tweaked the ingredients from a bunch of Italian recipes. This version has enough punch for adults but not enough to make READ MORE…

This cake was the result of a lazy Saturday morning spent reading The Sydney Morning Herald. I found the recipe in the Spectrum section and it was the only thing that would have got me off the couch. Once it was baked I went back to the couch with a big slice and a mug of READ MORE…

The best kind of dinner party is one filled with humour, wine and yummy food. Living in Paris (with a young daughter) means that we entertain at home more than we eat out and my French friends really know how to cook. I’m trying to learn traditional dishes while I’m living here so I asked READ MORE…

The kids and I spent this morning baking Anzac biscuits for our lovely neighbours  - Jim and Helen – who are putting up with the noise of our renovations. I used these cute spotted cardboard takeaway containers  to pack them in. Nothing like warm cookies straight out of the oven on this special day – READ MORE…

Sometimes miracles happen. This Easter we had left over chocolate eggs. Plenty of them. The bunny may or may not have gotten a little carried away….. Regardless we ended up with a drawer full of Lindt asking the question: What happens now? So I broke them up into chunky pieces (froze two containers full) and READ MORE…

The other day, my friend good friend Christian commented: “I feel like you’re always baking cakes”. He’s right. I am a baking machine. It’s almost therapy for me but sometimes it’s lovely to be baked for and last weekend my husband brought that goodness. Saxon is a true triple threat – cooks, dances, awesome father READ MORE…