Merry Christmas! Usually this is the point at which I go for all the big descants, but you have the entire internet for that. Instead, I am going to be completely self-indulgent (and hopefully you-indulgent, too), because I was looking…
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Coburg Farmers’ Market – Last Asparagus for 2014, and bonus Christmas Vegetables
(I have spent *way* too much of this afternoon arranging my vegetables into Christmas card configurations and then shooting them with my newly-discovered soft focus camera setting. Hallmark would be appalled. Or possibly proud. I am just giggling like a…
Anyone Can Cook Fabulous Vegetarian Food: Vegan Christmas in July
Oh, I am excited about this one. So excited that I am bringing this allegedly monthly challenge back from yet another hiatus when Life got the better of me. I know it’s not quite July yet, but let’s face it…
Advent Calendar Day 24 part 2: O Magnum Mysterium (Lauridsen)
A bonus carol for your Christmas Vigil! I love the lyrics to this piece of music – they are perfect for Christmas night, translating “O great mystery and wonderful sacrament, that the animals see the Lord born, lying in a…
The night before the night before Christmas!
Hello! I’ve been madly baking and confecting and singing and baking again for the last three weeks and have barely had time to glance at this blog (and I have so many recipes to write up, all of them unphotographed…
Merry Christmas!
May your Christmas Dinner be delicious, your family visits non-stressful, your gifts – given and received – be precisely what was desired, may your children actually sleep in on Christmas morning (and may the batteries on that fluffy toy duck…
Recipe: DIY Lemon Curd Tarts, and other last-minute Christmas ideas
Yes, I know. It’s three in the morning, and here I am on my blog. I’d like to say that this is because my meringues are cooking, but that is sadly not true, because my meringues were a disaster, and…
Recipe: Easy Last-Minute Fruit Mince for the Disorganised Cook Who Still Needs Mince Pies
I survived the confectionery! And the last minute mad baking frenzy for the end of work! And all the work Christmas parties! And (so far) all the carolling, though since I still have the three big services left to sing,…
Recipe: Christmas Pudding
I know, I know, it’s November and I’m talking about Christmas. But a traditional Christmas Pudding should be made well in advance, though mine is a fridge-dweller rather than the kind you hang off the clothes-horse to dry out. Also,…