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Gourmet Worrier is a blog about food, family, life and travel. Ms Gourmet is passionate about Mediterranean/Levantine cuisine, sustainability, whole foods, GM & fair trade. Gourmet Worrier highlights holiday destinations, cooking schools, gourmet foo
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Kinder Ballet
Hoover has been on a wait list for Kinderballet since March of this year. I didn't really think that she would get in to this extremely popular ballet school and gave up hoping months ago. Hoover on the other hand,......
Helping Hands
I love how my girl runs to go get her apron when she sees me in the kitchen.'What can I do Mama' she asks 'How about you wash the dirt off some potatoes'? I reply'That sounds like a good idea'......
Simplicity
Some days my fridge is heaving with all manner of possibilities. And then other days it's just a barren wasteland. Today is one of those wasteland kind of days. But thankfully there was a bunch of flat leaf parsley and......
We are Family
As a family we have had our fair share of trials and hardships over the years. We've had to struggle through a redundancy (thank-you tech-wreck), having a child, becoming parents, post-natal depression, having another child, another redundancy, runni...
Free Reign
This is generally what happens when you leave a couple of four year olds alone for five minutes with a bowl of chocolate frosting and some chocolate flakes while you attempt to have a quiet cup of tea.........
Autumn Leaves
Hoover has been unwell this past week with a nasty cough and runny nose, so I have kept her away from kinder. While she has been home she has helped me out in the kitchen, has played with play dough,......
Escape... albeit for a moment
The other day I was having one of those days where nothing was going right and everything was going wrong and I just couldn't get it together. So rather than 'push through' and persevere I chose to do something far......
First Offerings
I am grateful for many things in my life - my good health, a wonderful,supportive husband, our two glorious children and some pretty amazingpeople that I am fortunate enough to call my friends.What I am *really* grateful for this morning......
Abandoned Cumquats
No these cumquats are not another food gift that I found on my front porch from Corrie, Harry or Lanie. These cumquats are from my next door neighbours abandoned cumquat tree. You see Steve and Ava have been living......
Morning hugs
Leftovers
Most weekdays I am out the door and running by 8.30am. I drop Hoover at kindergarten, Fussy at school and jump back in the car and go to gym. After spinning on a bike for an hour I normally whizz......
Independance
I walked into the kitchen this morning to find Hoover helping herself to the Nutella jar. Why use a spoon when you can shove your whole hand in? Rather than reprimand her I decided to take a photo and so......
Harry's chestnuts from Bright
She still brings me flowers
