Fairy Bread – An Uber Recipe
byToday folks, we are taking fairy bread to new heights. For those of you reading from a country other than Australia or New Zealand, fairy bread is a kid’s party food absolutely ubiquitous with the under 9 set, and…
Recipes
Sugar and Spice Donuts w/ Raspberry Sauce – A Recipe
byWriting is harder than cooking, and here’s why. After reading this excellent article on my new favourite site of all time, I got to thinking about what prevents me from creating as many posts as a human post-making machine can…
Lemon Curd – A Recipe
byLet’s talk about perfection. A lot of people would say it’s completely unattainable. And with the sound of the most godawful dub step techno, not so quietly pumping it’s way under my front door, it would be easy for me…
Apricot Tarte Tatin – A Recipe
byCan you be a realist and a dreamer at the same time? I say yes. It’s the only way I can think of to describe my mindset. Almost anyone who has contact with me will be aware of the fact…
Ice Cream Sandwiches with Badass Hot Fudge – A Recipe
byBad-assery is a very important part of the everyday for me. It is how one goes from feeling generally morose, to having a full blown sense of triumph and ability. Below, I have compiled a list of things that any…
Coffee Caramel Ice Cream – A Recipe
byMy boyfriend and I talk far too much. I have had people comment on the fact that we have too much to discuss for two people who have been together for 5 years now. I put it down to two…
Homemade Crumpets – A Recipe
byI have always thought how much fun it would be to be a kid, and go back to primary school and early high school knowing what you know now. Think of all the situations you could save yourself from! The…
Christmas Cinnamon Scrolls – A Recipe
byI know I have posted a recipe for cinnamon scrolls before, but they are one of my very favourite things, either to cook or to eat, and they are so delicious, that I can’t help myself. Anyway, repetition can’t be…
Strawberry Jam – A Recipe
byThere are fewer things that bring joy and warmth and happiness to people better than home made jam. I love to cook, to bake and to make things for people to eat. Purely because it makes me happy. It makes…
Chocolate Chip Pancakes w Cinnamon Strawberries – A Recipe
byChocolate chip pancakes always remind me of the Parent Trap. You know that movie from back when Lindsay Lohan was a freckly red headed kid, and her dad was Dennis Quaid? Well, she played a set of twins who –…
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie – A Recipe
byNo regrets. A lot of people would tell you to live a life with no regrets. I can see the appeal. Regrets are always the things that you look back on and say, if only. But I think a life…
Strawberry Eton Mess Cake – A Recipe
byTwitter is up there for my number one favourite thing I’ve discovered about 7 years after everyone else. Like everyone else, I am secretly really attached to the idea of trying to get as many followers as I can –…
Peanut Butter and Jelly Donuts – A Recipe
byNever have I felt a stronger kinship with a fictional character, than when Liz Lemon of 30 Rock discussed sandwiches with Jack Donaghy on their way to Stone Mountain: Liz: Can I share with you my world view? Jack: I’d…
Passionfruit and Lime Syrup cake…and some Twitter News!
byFun fact everybody – you can now hear from me at irregular intervals responding to the events of a life in 140 characters or less at all hours of the day and night. I might even say something stupid. That’s…
Blueberry Frozen Yoghurt and a New Look!
byHard work is a bitch – why, you ask? It’s hard. It takes time. It takes effort. It makes me sleepy. It’s too hard. So many reasons, and none of them any good. There is some work here that needs…
Profiteroles with Chocolate Sauce and Vanilla Ice Cream
byThey say that it doesn’t take long to get over travel if you have to do it for work. I think I would like the opportunity to know, though. To whirlwind through Europe or over to the States for a…
Ricotta Hotcakes; a recipe
by“But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.” -Ernest Hemingway, “A False Spring,” A…
Crepes!
byI have a cookbook, the name of which I shall not disclose at this time, which has a recipe in it for crepes. The introductory paragraph for said recipe never fails to crack me up. I have been known to…
Churros with Hot Chocolate Sauce
byI toyed with the idea of calling this post, Churros, Chocolate and the joys of being bored. Because right now, I am bored, bored, bored. Bored. This is not the most bored I’ve ever been, but I tend to think…
Coconut Rice Pudding with Palm Sugar Syrup
byI am a little lost for words today. The subject of thankless tasks keeps creeping into my mind, as I seem to have encountered so many of them in my short little life. Sometimes it’s the thankless task of say,…
Summer Peach Pie
byLet me begin this post with the disclaimer: I will get to the pie. Now, after scanning the worldwide web, and finally joining Facebook (after a stupidly long period of resistance) I have been becoming more and more exposed to…