An amateur's attempt to cook every dish in Gordon Ramsay's 3 Star Chef.

I am a stay at home mum in Australia with a lovely husband and 4 young children. I love spending time with my family enjoying God's beautiful world. Heaps of photography, fun, life, cooking and family activities :-) Ruth xx

My name is Mathew Packer, my friends call me Mat or Packer. I live on the east coast of Australia in a beautiful city called Newcastle with my wife Cath, and our dog Cherry Bomb, and this is my blog. I’m a husband, photographer, blogger, entrepreneur, freelance web designer, editor, website publisher, 9-5 worker, golfer, sometimes-handy man, and generally a pretty nice guy.

Recipes and food info as I try it out.

Bringing environmental and social change together in one place to create a better world and repair our lives. We deliver our message in a straight forward, not necessarily politically correct way. We are tired of all the modern drivel, and believe its time to get real! What might we achieve if movements for environmental and social change worked together for healthy, whole communities? Our world is currently facing huge problems both environmentally and socially; we need to make some major adjustments to the way we live. Start here.

A Futuristic Vision of Western Australia covering technology, climate change, policy, transport and infrastructure.

In an ideal world, we'd be spending all day with food - perhaps running a cafe in the Mediterranean, growing organic produce in rural France or hosting a cooking school in Vietnam - but instead we just spend a lot of time here in Perth talking about our dreams whilst eating, cooking, dining, trying and sharing all things consumable. Please stop by and view our recipes and musings.

We live in Canberra, somebody has to

Exploring the possibilities of raw food preparation, and the impact of a raw vegan lifestyle on overall health and weight loss.

Each year the Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine puts out a restaurant guide to the top 100 eateries in the nation. This Blog tracks the progress of one womans dream to eat at all 100 restaurants, at one given point in time. Along they way, recipes from each restaurant will be attempted to be cooked at home, with glorious victories and spectacular failures. It might take a year, it might take 5 years or it might take a lifetime. The challenge and joy is the journey along the way.