member blog: jamjar
jamjar
From
Melbourne, Australia
Member since
14th Oct 2007
About
Michelle (jam) is a kiwi living the urban dream in Melbourne, Australia. She works for the Energy and Water Ombudsman (Victoria) as the Communications Officer. Yes, yes: she does talk a lot.
She didn't like food for a very long time, but rediscovered a joy of putting simple, fresh tastes into her mouth thanks to Jamie Oliver's accessible recipes, beautiful food-photography, and awesome Tefal wok/frying pan!
She is crazy-go-nuts about blogging - and can also be found at thejamjar.com
jamjar's blog posts
iJamie
Sun 25 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
OMG how great is the 20 Minute Meals iPhone app?
I shouldn't even be amazed at how good this application is. JamieOliver.com does everything so well - the attention to practical detail is unmatched. The recipes are easy, the photography is *gorgeous*, and the shopping list feature is flippin' wonderful. The tips and information in the videos is the show-stopper though.
Last night, my roommates and I decided to cook a simple meal of lamb steaks, baby pototoes, asparagus and a salad. We're not that confident with salads, so we checked out the iPhone app and watched Jamie's video on super salads. The part about the dressing was particularly life-changing.
We pulled together a salad of baby spinach, beet leaves, and tomatoes - took long slices of cucumber and chopped lemon thyme and mint - finally dressing in our own olive oil, lemon juice and mustard dressing (made in a jar, of course) The salad was wonderful: flavoursome, interesting, and beautifully drizzled with a simply tasty dressing.
Having Jamie in my pocket makes me very happy!
Jamie Magazine
Sun 01 Mar 2009GENERAL BLOG
My wonderful roommate brought me home Issue One of Jamie and I spent a lovely morning with coffee and this gorgeous magazine.
(yes, leftover pizza IS the breakfast of champions!)
Fifteen Melbourne
Sun 08 Feb 2009GENERAL BLOG
I've been squealy and excited all week. Fox, Willo and Jet (my housemates and their dog) bought me a 4 course degustation meal at Fifteen Melbourne for Christmas, and today was the date of the meal. I'm a Huge Jamie Oliver Fan (HJOF) and even the thought of going outside on Melbourne's hottest day in recorded history (46.4°C) wasn't going to stop this much anticipated meal.
Fifteen is down a flight of stairs off a Collins Street laneway in Melbourne's central business district. I'm not sure if their air conditioning was failing, but it was a bit warmer than we would have liked - our waiter, Elliot apologised for the temperature but I didn't catch a reason for it.
The meal was lovely, if a little confused in course and drinks order at the beginning - our entrees arrived before our predinner cocktails - and things felt a little rushed, but Elliot was ever present, making sure we were okay - amiable, and relaxed, and the meal smoothed out to a delicious pace.
The company was sterling, as usual. Fox and Willo are such wonderful dining companions. It really was a very very nice Christmas present.
You say tomato, I say potato.
Sat 12 Apr 2008GENERAL BLOG
My tomato plant has two tomatoes slowly ripening on it. The plant looks geriatric and frail, but it still spits a new shoot or two out each day and actually has flowers on it at the moment.
This weekend I've decided it's time to say goodbye to the plant. I would like to plant another one later in the year, but in the meantime, I read this http://sunnyo.blogspot.com/2008/04/grow … atoes.html
and wondered if it were feasible to do inside.
Beautiful Tomato
Sat 23 Feb 2008GENERAL BLOG
oh how i love thee..let me count the waysnom nom nom nom...hehhhe!!
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