Oh, I made such a big mistake when I was on leave. I went to Toorak to visit the Xocoalatl store, and on the way back I found the Prahran Market, which turns out to be a Catherine trap of…
These are really quite basic cupcakes with a little bit of lavender in them. If you’ve ever made a plain butter cake, you probably used this recipe, but without the lavender. The only slightly complex part is the whipped ganache,…
We are having an extended heat-wave in Melbourne just now, with temperatures above 30 for the last week and a bit, and continuing until late next week. Combine this with grant applications at work, a broken food processor, and the…
Today is horrendously hot, and the next two days threaten to be worse. I have therefore spent the afternoon… cooking. No, really, bear with me, it isn’t as mad as it sounds. Cooking in this weather can only be described…
I am such a lunatic right now. I’m bouncing off the walls and giggling madly at the completely insane set of tasks ahead of me this month. And then someone sends me an email mentioning shiny metallic food paint and…
Brunswick and Coburg, the suburbs in which I have lived most of my adult life, were both settled from the 1950s onward by working class immigrants from Italy, Greece, Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean. The proof of this…
This is something I basically made up last night, having foolishly let some croissants go stale, and being in need of things to make with that raspberry and lavender butter. It’s related to bread and butter pudding, and I actually…
