‘Twas the day before Christmas Eve, and all through the house harsh words can be heard as a lone baker struggled with the impossible task of keeping cool during a searing 36 degrees Sydney summer day. The baker realised, that much to her dismay that there was a reason why ginger bread dough needed to… Continue reading Life lessons from baking a gingerbread tardis
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Meatless Monday – Pear & Raspberry Bread and I wish you hadn’t asked
It is wet. I am standing inside a room dripping with water from its roof. Inside this little cottage, the smell of wet woollen rug and the metallic sound of water hitting metallic surface was overwhelmed by the sense of quiet that blanketed the room. I am in a dream, someone else’s or mine or… Continue reading Meatless Monday – Pear & Raspberry Bread and I wish you hadn’t asked
Meatless Monday – Lemon and Honey ANZAC Tart
To those who voted in the council elections over the weekend, the results are slowly being tallied here. The advantage of living in Lilyfield is wandering down to the fantastic Orange Grove Market to pick up some ingredients before sauntering in to drop my vote. Today’s Meatless Monday is a dessert…K wanted something lemony, so… Continue reading Meatless Monday – Lemon and Honey ANZAC Tart
Meatless Monday: Spinach, red onion and feta tart
A crazy few weeks and being stranded in odd cities for work and leisure thanks to the ash cloud meant that I am a bit behind on posting (again1!). Nevertheless, here’s let’s hope we stay back on track with this simple, but delicious Spinach, red onion and feta tart. I found the recipe from one… Continue reading Meatless Monday: Spinach, red onion and feta tart
Blue berry pie and getting back into nature
So I have started doing a bit of baking again. The cold weather and the presence of someone with a very sweet tooth around means there is human garbage can I can feed my failed attempts to. I had my eye on Bill Granger’s recipe for Blue Berry Pie recipe from his “Feed Me Now”… Continue reading Blue berry pie and getting back into nature
Vivian and drowning in baked goods
Our kitchen is currently packed with enough freshly baked good to keep us carb happy for the rest of the week. My housemate is back to his baking frenzy and we currently have a small mountain made up of delicious rock cakes. After nearly losing a tooth and breaking my jaw in the process, my… Continue reading Vivian and drowning in baked goods
Freaky Valentine
What happened when Friday the 13th was the day before Valentine’s Day? Aside from the horror of heart shaped sashimi and (I suspect) a heart shaped axe being sold somewhere by a canny entrepreneur or two somewhere, the two rarely meets. On Friday I wandered down to London Bridge to catch a glimpse of a… Continue reading Freaky Valentine
Knitting and baking
Crappy disjointed week and the same is looking the same for next week unfortunately. Trying to finish projects that I have started, but I haven’t had much time to sit down properly do so…Above is an almost complete set of Peekaboo mittens (pattern by Pensive Frog) knitted using Jaeger Roma, shade 020 I picked up… Continue reading Knitting and baking
Comfort food – banana bread
After three months away from Australia, it surprised me that I haven’t craved anything too much. Well I do miss a good coffee that’s not from a coffee chain, Pork roll from the local Vietnamese bakery, great Asian food in general and a decent sausage roll…but nothing that made me wake up in the middle… Continue reading Comfort food – banana bread
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