Char-grilled Peaches with Mascarpone, Honey and Hazelnuts

Peaches are here! Now summer can begin, yes?

I really should have waited until it was actually summer before buying them though, because the ones in the shop the other day were less than summer-ready. As you can see below they were a little on the under-ripe side. They are also clingstones (I prefer the freestone kind with the red hearts) which means that I had a bit of a job getting the stone out without further bruising the fruit - I was unsuccessful in this exercise. 

Nevertheless, it did not really matter because what I had in store for them was going to save their rosy behinds. 

Eat Drink Blog 2012: Adelaide Central Markets

A couple of weeks ago, 80 lucky food bloggers from all over Australia descended upon Adelaide to attend Eat Drink Blog 2012 ,a conference designed to bring us together for a weekend of networking and learning cool things - like taking a better photo, food styling, important legal information, SEO and something else I am forgetting...oh yeah, trying some of the best produce that this country has to offer.  There was wine too (oh, you betcha), but that is for another time and another blog post. 

Clockwise from Left: Toasted banana bread with marmalade and Marscapone from Zuma Cafe' Imagine the taste of those organic, free range eggs, lovely peonies that I wanted to bury my face in, funky chairs at Zuma Cafe.

And the "My Greek Family Table Cookbook" giveaway winner is....

Lindell!

Mango, Blueberry and Granola Breakfast Parfait

When it comes to eating breakfast regularly I will stand before you, hand on heart, and tell you that I am pretty lousy at it.

It's true that breakfast is the most important meal of the day: everybody knows this. It kick-starts your metabolism and gives you the energy to get through to lunch. It also prevents snacking on bad things... again, guilty as charged.