Hello! I’m back! The Centenary Games are all over but the shouting (alas, there is quite a bit of shouting still), and I am actually getting to do things like come home from work on time and then SLEEP. During…
OK, after yesterday’s exploration of the truly disgusting things one can create while in pursuit of dessert, I thought we deserved something a bit less traumatic. So here, have a soothing brownie. Is it not beautiful? Does it not inspire…
I keep popping my head up for air and then making big promises of a return to regular blogging. And then I get swallowed up by work again, or come down with the plague, or both, and I disappear underwater…
I know, I know. I said I was going to write about carrot cake and crackling chocolate crackles. But then I realised it was my choir friend’s birthday, and because I am on holiday, I actually had time to make…
OK, so the first thing you will notice about this post is that it isn’t Purim. (Perhaps I am overestimating my readers’ grasp of just when all the Jewish festivals are, but then again, since my readership is full of…
This is one of those recipes that sort of evolved as I wandered along Sydney Road on the weekend, and then started poking around in my pantry at home. First, I fell for the beautiful tiny strawberries at La Manna,…
This is just a simple little recipe for using up leftover baked sweet potatoes that takes about five minutes to make. Maybe other people don’t have leftover baked sweet potatoes, but I tend to make baked sweet potatoes fairly often,…
Am I the only one looking at the weather forecast for the next few days and whimpering? I am not a fan of the summer. True, we get all the most fabulous stone fruit and berries and tomatoes and eggplants…
Ah, December. No matter what I do, it seems to get away from me, and this year, more than ever. I wound up doing most of my Christmas Baking last weekend – all day on Sunday, in fact – and…
“Vegan potential?” I hear you ask. Well, yes. My Herman cake can never be vegan, because he was drinking cow’s milk when I got him, and even if I started feeding him almond milk or soy milk now, he would…
