I’m devastated to report that blood orange season is over. But on the plus side, it’s mango time!!! Get in me, you sweet juicy wonder.

Sunday night is for Ugg boots and man and puppy cuddles.

Really hoping this coffee fixes this hangover. I got things to do!

Listening to this at the gym and honestly fighting the urge to break into a stripper dance right here on the weight bench.

G’night from two sleepy boys.

Fresh eggs, courtesy of my parents’ chickens, Gwyneth Poultry and Yolko Ono.

Wine. Couch. Simpsons. This is EXACTLY what we want from Saturday night. Also: Maybe you ALL are homosexuals!!

Yes it’s 8.30pm. But I feel like reading something comforting in bed. Maybe some kinda fantasy novel. Or a delicious cookbook.

Had an incredible lunch yesterday with former colleagues to mark the end of a program we’d all worked on. Never had a herb sorbet made with liquid nitrogen before 👀

I’d say I’m starting my day off by sweating out my sins… but being a paragon of virtue, that’s impossible, you see 😇

Homemade duck and hoisin pizza. This is making me very happy and very full right now.

I am officially too old to be drunkenly eating two-minute ramen at 2.30am. Am I allowed to blame @ccshoreditch.bsky.social for this somehow??

Some crispy pork belly, some wine, and a blood orange or two, and I’m a happy happy man.

Got to catch up with a bunch of old friends today. It’s kinda awesome to see that some things haven’t changed with time (and in some cases children). 😍

I’m not tipsy and full of deep-fried food, you’re tipsy and full of deep-fried food, shut up.

It’s Blood Orange season! Imma turn it into gelatos and granitas, marinate chicken in its sharp, sweet essence, and, dammit, just suck it greedily from the skin. (Yes, I get wildly excited about certain fruits.)

AI working very hard to transform us from kinda boozy to vaguely porn-y 😂😂

Brisbane is far more fun than I’d anticipated 😂

My man’s been in NSW for family reasons, so I’ve been in full introvert mode for the last three days. Dancing around the kitchen while cooking Jamie Oliver recipes, reading books, watching Schitt’s Creek for the 15th time, that sorta thing.

If I have to be up this early, I might as well do #mcm for once.

Making the most of a sunny afternoon in Melbourne’s spring of deception.

Hi from your gym dads. Come work out with us and we’ll cook you dinner. There’s chocolate mousse, too.

Little wander up Hanging Rock with a very fun group of people. And no, we did not picnic: like any sensible person, we went to the pub.

Dinner tonight was a chicken curry pasta bake. But even for me, too heavy on the chilli 😳🔥🔥

This handsome bastard outdid himself with dinner tonight.

Yesterday’s cooking adventures included veal biryani (which worked surprisingly well) and Kerala fried chicken).

Because @ccshoreditch.bsky.social can’t have all the ‘Masc Dom Top’ vibes on this platform 😉😜

The Winter of Braises has ended. Yesterday we declared the start of the Spring of Sous Vide! (My inexpert carving expertly photographed by @jbau.bsky.social)

It’s not pit day but what the hell.

Look at these cuties 😍

One last sauna to purify the soul before I back to work. (Or, more accurately, to sweat out the wine from the last few days.)

Another day, another spa. This time with wine 😈

We have found a pub that serves delicious French food. Life is a little bit lovely right now 🍷

Day two of gym and mimosas in the spa underway. Because one needs good biceps to pop a sparking wine cork 😉

Just preparing for mimosas in the spa on a fine Monday morning…

Right. Who among you needs a Sunday puppy hug?

Less than ten minutes after I took this, it was pissing down rain 😂

Gym done, chicken in the oven, Bake-Off on TV. Thursday night is sorted.

When some people get food poisoned, they recover with bland, gentle diets. When it’s @heydaaaavey.bsky.social and I? We recover with Peruvian lamb cutlets and layered duck-fat potatoes 😂

This handsome fucker’s made us lemonade scones, so Sunday is sorted 😊😊

Okay, tonight is turning out to be very fun 😉

How is Cooking with Paris somehow the greatest of cooking shows? 😂😂😂

Inspired by the virtue of @ccshoreditch.bsky.social (now there’s a thing no one’s ever said before!), I am attempting 6am gym.

No cheating, post the last pic of your pet

Let the porky adventures begin!

Every winter, I declare it The Winter of Braises … and then don’t braise nearly enough things. But not this time! Pork shoulder marinating in Peruvian pepper pastes (and a potato Wellington for the veggos in our friend group).

Friday’s finally here. Anyone else feel like this week has lasted centuries?

It took 23 goes before we both faced the camera with our eyes open 😂

Gym done! Now to get breakfast and go on a hike!

Turns out that one can have a decent and respectable night out with @steviejcmh.bsky.social.