July 2007

Scone-sational

July 12, 2007 | 452 views

Sometimes you try a food or a recipe for the first time and it just lets you down. Pretty badly, in fact. That was my relationship with scones – I’d tried one when I was quite young at a little tea house in Olinda, but I was thoroughly unimpressed with the tough, doughy and flavourless [...]

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I think I need an intervention

July 9, 2007 | 620 views

in Cakes & Brownies,Chocolate,Nuts & Seeds

I make no secret of the fact that I thorough adore being in the kitchen – I feel like I’m truly in my element when I am chopping, blending or mixing, and so I rarely notice the time passing when I am merrily humming away in the the kitchen whilst doing my thing. However, occasionally [...]

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From mother’s loving hands

July 4, 2007 | 1,262 views

in Poultry & Eggs

My family are absolute chicken fiends. We have red meat maybe once or twice a week, and lots of seafood and fish, but for some reason chicken tends to appear on the dinner table only about once a month. However, when it does, it’s usually done so in a ridiculously tasty way courtesy of my [...]

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