Piedmont (Piemonte) in Northern Italy has so much to offer to travellers, and much of it is close to Turin (Torino). Here’s my 3 top Piemonte day trips from Turin! Nestled in the picturesque landscapes of northern Italy, Torino (Turin) is absolutely our favourite Italian city. A big attraction for us is not just the charm of the city, but its proximity to some fascinating Piemonte day-trips. While Torino boasts a rich history, vibrant culture, and fabulous local cuisine, just a short day trip from the city there’s a remarkable range of adventures to experience, and it’s all gorgeous no matter ..read more

We are going free-range for April in the cookbook club – just pick one of your own  cookbooks to cook from. And May is looking very special … Welcome to April and yet another month of cooking the books with Lambs Ears Cookbook Club. This month we are going free-range with our cookbook selections, and I want each of you to select ONE book from your shelves and leap into it head-first, for the whole month. I don’t care which book you choose, but I just want you to cook as much as you can from the one book and share it with the group over on Facebook and/or on Instagram (using #lambsearscoo ..read more

March can be a tricky month – it’s officially autumn, but often it seems that summer didn’t get the memo. This month’s cookbook club selection is certainly generous enough to provide plenty of March morsels, whatever the weather. March is officially the beginning of autumn here in Australia but we know that, while the leaves start to turn, summer usually still has a few surprises left for us. Nevertheless, the  March morsels in  Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club selection, Recipes for a Lifetime of Beautiful Cooking by Danielle Alvarez with Libby Travers, are diverse enough to cover whateve ..read more

February is usually the hottest month in Australia, so February in Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club celebrates the sunny food of Bill Granger – an Australian self-taught cook who showcased our cuisine to the world. Hello cookbook addicts everywhere and welcome to February in Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club. I was thrilled to see so many of you join in, during your holidays no less, for the January cookbook, Kindred. I’ve been even more thrilled to see how you’ve already embraced the whole-year cookbook, The Food Saver’s A-Z. As I mentioned in my last post, this is a book that I felt deserved more attentio ..read more

Happy new year to my fellow cookbook addicts. Check out the 2024 cookbook club selections – it’s time to get on top of food waste in our kitchens! And just like that Christmas and 2023 is done! I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed watching you all cook along with the Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club in the last year, and I’m excited to see what we all come up with in in the  2024 cookbook club. I’m keeping this post very brief, not least because I’m in Italy, and it’s New Year’s Eve. We’ve been busy and I’ve been sharing lots of snaps – you can follow along on my Facebook or Instagram account ..read more

Here we are at the sharp end of 2023, but Christmas in the cookbook club will be a cinch with our December cookbook choice. Well, all of a sudden it’s December, and time for Christmas in the cookbook club – and it’s been another fabulous year for Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club.We’ve seen our membership grow, with cookbook addicts both here in Australia and overseas, and we’ve cooked from a selection of excellent cookbooks – I do hope everyone has enjoyed 2023. Our final cookbook for this year is one that is entirely appropriate for Christmas in the cookbook club – and in your home, wherever that m ..read more

Get excited, we’re catering to our sweet tooth at Lambs Ears Cookbook Club with Alison Roman’s “Sweet Enough” in November – and read through for our perfect December selection.  I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have a sweet tooth and have been dying for an excuse to really get into Alison Roman’s new cookbook Sweet Enough – and that’s definitely why I picked it for our November Lambs Ears Cookbook Club cookbook. Alison Roman, she of the New York Times bestseller list, several viral recipe videos and 730,000+ Instagram followers, dropped out of college to follow up her dedication ..read more

Join the cookbook club in October and get Be Inspired – A Month in Provence FREE, and keep an eye on November’s book choice – it’s a total sweetie! It shocks me to say it, but here we are hurtling into October and ready to begin cooking from a new cookbook. If you’ve ever been tempted to join the cookbook club, let me tell you that now is the perfect opportunity as the fabulous e-magazine Be Inspired – A Month in Provence is FREE! Producer of the Be Inspired website and e-magazine, Roberta Muir, is offering our cookbook club members an opportunity too good to miss. She’s offering members a FR ..read more

We’ll be cooking from Iran to Italy this month in the cookbook club – and October’s selection comes with a FREE gift for every Lambs’ Ears Cookbook club member! Lots of the cookbook club members were happy to take a trip down memory lane with the Australian community cookbooks in the August cookbook selection, but September will take us much further afield as we explore flavours from Iran to Italy. Pomegranates and Articholes, September’s cookbook selection, is a gorgeous, deeply personal look at the culinary traditions of author Saghar Setareh’s homelands, both original and adopted. Featurin ..read more

August guarantees Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club members even more trusted recipes in Liz Harfull’s Tried, Tested and True, and I announce the new selection. Our June Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club exploration of Belinda Jeffery’s In Belinda’s Kitchen is at an end, but never fear – there’s even more trusted recipes in our future. Our August selection, Tried Tested and True by Liz Harfull is full of them! In this book Liz explores the world of Australian community cookbooks – the modest, often hand-printed and hand-stapled little books that were put together by volunteers to raise money for their commun ..read more