Enjoy foreshore walks this Easter

Enjoy foreshore walks this Easter - Photo  - Christopher Maait

With the glorious Easter  weather, why would anyone not be out enjoying our foreshores?  We suggest you arm yourself with a copy of Mosman Meanders & foreshore flavours and treat yourself to beautiful harbour walks,  connecting sites to rich history and cultural background insights.

 

Then when you've built up an appetite, drop into a local cafe for coffee or a snack, or prepare beforehand with your own picnic using recipes from the book.

Enjoy the moment.

Claire

 

 

 

Dark Chocolate Easter eggs are good health news

Have you heard the good news about dark chocolate?

Summarised from Ease Easter Guilt": go for dark chocolate - Nicola Conville, Sunday Telegraph 24/3/13
Easter promises calorific overindulgence but according to studies by researchers from Monash University, the choice of dark chocolate offers significant health benefits, including improvement of blood flow and a "feel good" factor.
It's a healthier option, especially since with a 70 per cent cocoa component, dark chocolate generally contains less added sugar and fat than milk chocolate, with other studies stressing it be part of a healthy lifestyle, including regular exercise.

Sounds like great news to me!

Happy Easter to you all.
Claire  - lover of dark chocolate
ps - in 'Mosman Meanders & foreshore flavours' on Page 90, Coco Chocolate - Sydney Chocolate School, at Middle Head,  have submitted a fabulous recipe for Chilli chocolate figs. These are to die for.


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$120,000 raised by Balmoral Swim!

What a fantastic effort!   
Claire
Article - Mosman Daily 21/3/13

Photo - Claire

 

 

Photos - David Swift 

 

Balmoral Swim - relish the moment!

Hi there
What a great day - the photos say it all!
Overheard from "We can beat cancer" participants - "Relish the moment - can you believe you are here doing it?  Be proud because you are amazing."
Makes me wish I was doing it too.  Claire

 

 

 

Navy presence at Balmoral Swim

 

Balmoral Swim is a fabulous spectacle

It's a fabulous spectacle well worth attending.  See you there.

Balmoral Swim
The annual Balmoral Swim is on March17 to raise funds for the Children’s Cancer Institute Australia. The 250m junior swim will start at 9-30am and the 1km main event race kicks off at lOam. To register visit:- www.balmoralswim.com.au

Balmoral Swim History

The Balmoral Swim was initiated within the Mosman community as a “Swim for Cancer”. Funds have been raised since 1990 to benefit targeted cancer-related charities:

• the Cancer Council;
• Camp Quality;
• Tsunami charities in 2005 and,
• CCIA.

The CCIA has been the beneficiary of funds raised since 2006. CCIA is the only independent medical research institute in Australia dedicated to research into the causes, better treatment, prevention, and cure of childhood cancer.
The event has been organised since 2005 by the locally-based Balmoral Beach Club and a number of community members who founded the swim. All members of the committee are volunteers, as are the many helpers on race day.
The local council, Mosman Municipal Council, has actively encouraged and supported the swim as a feature in the local calendar.
The Balmoral Swim committee encourges community participation. The locally based Navy at HMAS Penguin contribute by helping to lay the course and assist with safety on the day. The local Scouts group (1st Balmoral Sea Scouts) helps with a sausage sizzle and many local business support the event.
In 2010 the swim was awarded the Benefactors Award in recognition of outstanding support for the CCIA . This award belongs to the community of swimmers and volunteers who have supported the event every year.
 

Fennel and Orange Salad

 

The following recipe has a special significance to me since I was served this refreshing dish in Tuscany.
Italy loves citrus and this dish is by Alvina who served it with Walnut Pesto Pasta, followed by Poached Figs and homemade icecream.
Baby fennel from Mosman providores is at its best at present.

Fennel and Orange Salad

Serves 6
1 bunch rocket or curly endive leaves
1 small fennel bulb
3 oranges, peeled and segmented
1 red onion, sliced
20 black olives
Orange Dressing
3 1/2 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tbsp fresh fennel leaves, chopped
1/2 tsp orange rind, grated
1/2 tsp sugar
freshly ground black pepper to taste

Place rocket or endive on a large platter. Arrange fennel, oranges, onion and olives attractively. To make the orange dressing, place ingredients in a screw top bottle and shake to combine. Pour over salad and serve immediately.
(http://www.timeintuscany.com/)

 

Has my heart been taught to whisper, ‘You belong to Sydney-Side.’

"But the city set in jewels rose before me from ‘The Shore.’"
Photo - Christopher Maait - Mosman Meanders

 

Sydney-Side

Where's the steward?—Bar-room steward? Berth? Oh, any berth will do—

I have left a three-pound billet just to come along with you.

Brighter shines the Star of Rovers on a world that’s growing wide,

But I think I’d give a kingdom for a glimpse of Sydney-Side.

 

Run of rocky shelves at sunrise, with their base on ocean’s bed;

Homes of Coogee, homes of Bondi, and the lighthouse on South Head.

For in loneliness and hardship—and with just a touch of pride—

Has my heart been taught to whisper, ‘You belong to Sydney-Side.’

Oh, there never dawned a morning, in the long and lonely days,

But I thought I saw the ferries streaming out across the bays—

And as fresh and fair in fancy did the picture rise again

As the sunrise flushed the city from Woollahra to Balmain:

And the sunny water frothing round the liners black and red,

And the coastal schooners working by the loom of Bradley’s Head;

And the whistles and the sirens that re-echo far and wide—

All the life and light and beauty that belong to Sydney-Side.

And the dreary cloud-line never veiled the end of one day more,

But the city set in jewels rose before me from ‘The Shore.’

Round the sea-world shine the beacons of a thousand ports o’ call,

But the harbour-lights of Sydney are the grandest of them all!

Toiling out beyond Coolgardie—heart and back and spirit broke,

Where the Rover’s Star gleams redly in the desert by the ‘soak’—

But says one mate to the other, ‘Brace your lip and do not fret,

We will laugh on trains and ’buses—Sydney’s in the same place yet.’

Working in the South in winter, to the waist in dripping fern,

Where the local spirit hungers for each ‘saxpence’ that we earn—

We can stand it for a season, for our world is growing wide,

And they all are friends and strangers who belong to Sydney-Side.

‘T’other-siders! T’other-siders!’ Yet we wake the dusty dead;

It is we that send the backward province fifty years ahead;

We it is that ‘trim’ Australia—making narrow country wide—

Yet we’re always T’other-siders till we sail for Sydney-side.

Henry Lawson

The Bonny Port of Sydney - Henry Lawson

 




As the harbour lights of Sydney
As we see them from the Shore
Photo - Christopher Maait from 'Mosman Meanders'
 





The Bonny Port of Sydney

The lovely Port of Sydney
Lies laughing to the sky,
The bonny Port of Sydney,
Where the ships of nations lie.
You shall never see such beauty,
Though you sail the wide world o’er,
As the sunny Port of Sydney,
As we see it from the Shore.
The shades of night are falling
On many ports of call,
But the harbour lights of Sydney
Are the grandest of them all;
Such a city set in jewels
Has ne’er been seen before
As the harbour lights of Sydney
As we see them from the Shore.

I must sail for gloomy London,
Where there are no harbour lights,
Where no sun is seen in winter,
And there are no starry nights;
And the bonny port of Sydney—
I may never see it more,
But I’ll always dream about it
As we view it from North Shore.

Henry Lawson :