Whew – what a long day! To be honest…it does serve me right for leaving the baking of our father’s day cake to the very last minute… In Australia, we celebrate father’s day on the first Sunday in September every year, and though I always remember it, for some reason I always persist in leaving [...]
Sorry I’ve been so absent folks – between work and taking care of my family, I’m so exhausted that I feel pretty drained of the will to live…UGH! Okay, so that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the honest truth is that spare time to blog is a bit of a rare commodity at the [...]
There’s something about seed cakes that seem infinitely old-fashioned and comforting to me, especially one cake combination that has stood the test of time and continues to appear in it’s cool kitschy cute way in many a cookbook – that being the orange and poppy seed cake. This recipe comes from a tiny little recipe [...]
Apparently, it’s called writer’s block. And I appear to be suffering it. I’m still cooking…I just seem to have lost the power to compose semi-eloquent sentences that will entice you readers to become excited about what I’ve been baking – but I guess that’s what the pictures are for, right? This is another recipe from [...]
*Rude sound of a telephone ringing* “Gnnfraffrgh” “GOOD morning! How are we?” “Gnnergafffrgaghg…” “I didn’t wake you up now, did I?” I sighed. “No…it’s cool…I should get up anyway, the sun’s coming through my window. What time is it?” “Oh, about midday?” (o_O) <- surprised face The night before, I had gone to see American [...]