Breakfast
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 [...]
Who doesn’t love pancakes? Light, fluffy and oh-so-versatile, they can be adapted to sweet or savoury dishes (though I stop short of serving a rump steak on top of a buckwheat pancake, as once witnessed at the pancake parlour!) and are generally just a marvellous way to start, sustain or end the day 
And [...]
This bread is a work in contrasts - the thin crust is crunchy, whilst the inside is dense, chewy and moist.
This weekend was an absolute scorcher, with temperatures sitting around 40 degrees C on both Saturday and Sunday. Whilst I was able to fulfill my cooking desires with my boiled sugar treats, I was still [...]
I am an egg lover. That’s right - I love these little bundles of protein that are flavourful yet versatile enough to be used for so many different dishes! My favourite way to have them is poached, but till this weekend I didn’t know how to poach them myself, and had to stick to soft-boiled [...]
Methinks that perhaps Mr. Beauregard wouldn’t be quite so upset about his daughter Violet turning into a blueberry if she became part of these most delicious blueberry buttermilk pancakes. Am I suggesting cannibalism? Never! Not that it’d really be cannibalism as technically she did become fruit-i-fied!
No oompa loompas here, but I did work some magic [...]
