By Gillian, Author at My Square Frying Pan

I HEART NYC!

Hello lovely readers 🙂 My blog has been quiet these past couple of weeks now – and that’s because Ive been having the most amazing time in one of the most diverse, frantic, chaotic and stunningly beautiful cities of the world, New York. Yes…Im totally and utterly head over heels IN LOVE with the city…

Rocky Road – Something to Smile About

Photo Jacinta Young My Dad is rocky road’s number 1 fan – even though he’ll have you believe he’s been on a stringent self-imposed diet for years void of most of the good stuff due to a few close calls with his health. However, Rocky Road quietly makes the cut along with the occasional liquorice…

Ho ho ho! Its Christmas in July!

Merry Christmas (in July)!! Having spent quite a few Christmas’s past in the northern hemisphere including Canada, Scotland and the UK, winter in Melbourne does it’s best impersonation just without the snow but with more rain….and then some… An annual Christmas in July event has become a little tradition of the past few years between…

Grandma’s Wintery Vegetable Soup

I grew up on my Grandma’s lovely vegetable soup. It was one of the best things about the weather turning cold outside especially if followed by one of her warming pieces of mulberry pie for dessert. If we were lucky and of course if there was anything left over, we got to take some home…

A Happy Birthday and the Cat That Got the Buttercream

I LOVE BIRTHDAYS! My birthday, family birthdays, friend’s birthdays and even the Queen’s birthday. Yes, unfortunately each birthday celebration means I’m another year older but what better excuse to get together with good friends and eat cake…A LOT of cake! My best friend Jacinta on the other hand, would prefer that her birthday slipped by…

Dance Like Nobody Is Watching ; A Recipe For Vegetarian Paella

This post is inspired by the effervescent and ever dancing ‘young’ elderly lady who set down her shopping trolley today and gave herself over to the music in the middle of the lunchtime masses. You made my day – I thank you! At lunchtime I had wandered into the Bourke St Shopping Mall (Melbourne) enroute…

Queens Jubilee Dessert – Eton Mess Ice Cream

I have fond memories of my time as a cash strapped backpacker in London. Share houses, bed bugs, warehouse parties, orphan’s Christmas, tri-nation competitions, the English summer and the regular side trips to Europe and other exotic places when I was able to tear myself away from the excitement of London town. For a large…

Chocolate Hazelnut Lamingtons with Raspberry Jam

Lamington’s conjure up fond memories for me of fundraising drives back in primary school in the 80’s. The excitement was palpable when a big slab of delicious lamington’s eventually would arrive in a cardboard box which was “inhaled” by my brothers and I soon after they arrived. Ive no idea if they still do lamington…

Down At The Farm : Sweet Chilli & Roasted Tomato Yabby Pizza

After a long hiatus from Australia (3 years) and many adventures later in South America and beyond , my best friend and roving photographer Jacinta finally decided a (temporary) visit home to Melbourne was in order just in time for Christmas last year. Her parents farm just outside of Ballarat which she took every chance…

Out, Out, Brussel Sprout!

As a small child nothing made me want to run away faster like the knowledge that the dreaded brussel sprout was going to be served up for dinner. Then, it really was a fate worse than death, death by brussel sprout! I was recently reacquainted with the sprout after being “ambushed” via a friend’s much…

My Square Frying Pan – An Introduction

Welcome to my very first week of My Square Frying Pan! I am so very excited to finally bring this blog to life after what feels like an eternity of ideas swishing around in my head and telling all my forever waiting friends, family and fellow bloggers just…. another….week…. more…. I literally don’t stop talking…

Grandma’s Mulberry Pie – Made with love!

My grandma’s garden is dear to my heart and is filled with lovely memories of summer days laced with fragrant jasmine, sudsy yellow backyard water slides and Mandy, the cranky old Corgy that hated all of us grandkids. Down the back, past the lemon trees, sloping green lawn and Mandy’s final resting place is my…