Yes, I went to the Ruby Chocolate demo, and yes, I pre-ordered a big bag of ruby chocolate, so there are probably going to be a few ruby chocolate recipes on this blog in the near future. For those unfamiliar…
You know how I spent about a month obsessively baking recipe after recipe after recipe from Red Velvet, Chocolate Heartache? Well, I’m pleased to say that I seem to have internalised the book thoroughly enough that I can now create…
Yeah, I think we all knew that I wasn’t going to miss Raw Food Day just because I’m not supposed to stand or walk much on this silly possibly-broken toe. Besides, I needed chocolate. And I had freeze-dried raspberries! Like…
Today was Mothers’ Day, and we therefore planned to have afternoon tea at my brother’s house. My sister-in-law was doing something decadently chocolatolicious, so I figured I’d complement this with a nice, tangy lemon and yoghurt cake. Then, of course,…
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 was the VegMel Vegan Pot-Luck Picnic, to which I was invited by the lovely Steph from VeganAboutTown (who made some of my recipes! How cool is it when people actually make your recipes? And change them? And then you…
My brother and I did a gift swap this year for Christmas – he bought me a ticket to the cricket (in the Members’ Stand, no less), and I catered lunch for his party. Vegan lunch, because one of his…
I don’t really do Halloween, to be honest. I sort of like the idea, but it isn’t big in these parts (not being a festival generally favoured by the Greek Orthodox or Muslim communities), and my mother always disapproved of…
Another day, another fundraiser at work (and another cupcake recipe on this blog), and since I am now officially She Who Bakes Allergy-Friendly Foods, I had to come up with something gluten-free and vegan that my friends could eat… The…
Tomorrow, my workplace is hosting Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a fundraiser for the Cancer Council. Since a lot of my postdocs and PhD students are supported by the Cancer Council in one way or another (and because we are all…
