I visited my best friend in Darwin last week. It wasn’t the most successful visit we’ve had – my friend has a toddler, and he was sick, and then he gave his lurgy to his dad, and then his mum.…
Recipe: Vegetable Pikelets
Category: nut-free
Recipe: Spanak-not-ika (Green leafy things and cheeses in pastry)
We have been getting some disgustingly hot weather recently, and as a big fan of not cooking in hot weather, I’ve been trying to be organised so that we can get something healthy on the table without having to heat…
Recipe: Passionfruit and Mango Pâté des Fruits
This was my first attempt at modifying Kirsten Tibbals’ recipe for Passionfruit Pâté de Fruit using the Lotus brand of Citrus Pectin. And… first time lucky, apparently, because this really worked. It’s nothing like my old pectin jellies, but it’s…
Kitchen Lab Book Post: Pectin Jellies Attempt 3
This is a continuation from my previous lab book post, as I’m still working on how to get the best results with the two kinds of pectin I’ve been using by modifying the two recipes I’ve been given. The main…
Recipe Lab Book Post: Pectin Jellies (Pâté de fruit)
When I originally started this blog, a big part of the point of it was keeping track of my more successful culinary experiments so that I could repeat them as needed. I haven’t really done that, but today I definitely…
Recipe: Vegan Gingerbread Cupcakes with Spiced Apples
Wow, I’ve finally caught up with all the pre-programmed posts and here I am… in, it must be said, a rather less auspicious space than I would prefer to be at this time of year. It’s been a difficult year…
Recipe: Fierce Strawberries (and tentacle cake)
A while back, one of my Professors welcomed me back from long service leave with a copy of Deceptive Desserts: A Lady’s Guide to Baking Bad, by Christine McConnell. I was particularly taken by her recipe for Screamberries, and my…
Recipe: Chocolate Truffle Cake Pops That Really Should Be Vegan
Why yes, this is indeed another Wedding Cake Leftovers post. Is anyone really surprised by this? This time, the cake bits in question were the vegan sachertorte cakes. I also had leftover dark chocolate, leftover milk and leftover cream –…
Recipe: Lemon and Ruby Cakepops
You probably thought I was done with rainbow-wedding-cake related posts, didn’t you? Nope. Not a chance. I’m actually writing this a month before you are reading it (and a good thing, too, because right at this very moment I am…
Recipe: Vegan Sacher-cupcakes
Calling these cupcakes Sacher-cupcakes is probably an insult to Austrians everywhere and they will never let me go back to their country, let alone that hotel, but I do think it’s a fair description. Sachertorte is a light chocolate sponge…