Ive tasted some pretty rank soy milk, with my lactose intolerance being a pain in the ass, coming and going whenever it pleases, making coffee milk choices that much harder... well not any more kids!!

The best of both world hands .. Bonsoy have been through the ringer with sodium levels getting makers into a twist and a new recipe for Bonsoy soy milk was needed. With a new and i think much improved (anything that doesn't kill you is good in my books) recipe brings the richness and the creamyness of a full cream milk, not to mention the velvet texture! At the end of it all you wont be running to the toilet or complaining about any tummy upsets !! SAY NO TO TUMMY ACHES AND YES TO SEXY MILK! .. ok ill relax its just soy milk..=p

No Sunday is complete with out my soy latte NO SUGAR PLEASE!! This humble little cafe was recommended to me by a dear vegan friend (thank goodness his good for something) =p open till about 4 in the arvo, this cafe is swarming with the vegan art students, mums and pet lovers alike.

Before you had time to look through the red wine selection your coffee is ready in all of its glory waiting for you .. milk is always perfect and the place reaks of great coffee. With a smallish yet thoughtful menu to please all palettes, A Minor Place def gets my kudos!!

Its cosy inside and its always buzzing with chatter, i love the fact that they give you milk crates to sit on outside. Its bloody refreshing as i have been hit with the travel bug blues, seeing people sprawled out on a suburbia strip took me straight back to South East Asia.

What a year 2009 was, the fires came in and took the homes of our neighbours, the recession had us all working that extra mile, MJ danced his last moonwalk and the world says hello to America's first black president. It wizzed by so fast before i knew it Christmas decorations were up and plans for new years were on everyones lips.

Lucky me, being out of the hospitality industry this season gave me time with my family friends. Did a whole lotta nothing and loved every minute of it. Every other Christmas consisted of road trips out of Melbourne, or if lucky enough a 8hr flight out to Asia.

This year the festivities kicked off at my parents house, which at the time looked like a squater house! My father having excellent timing thought house renovations should start in November and work well into December and of course Christmas... (Thanks dad) working in a bomb shelter i was scrambling for idea on what to serve. I wanted a no fuss dinner, something that took little effort however making you sickenly full, after all its Christmas! Here's what I came up with:


Roast pork stuffed with garlic and rosemary
Sugar snaped pea salad with prawns
Roasted tomatoes stuffed with Mexican rice and beans
Roast new potatoes, pumpkin, carrot