Fruit Flavour
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I’m a sucker for a strawberry. I inhale them through the summer and I spend the rest of the year pining for these adorable ruby red berries to come back into my life. Thankfully, we’ve gotten over our period of imported berries and the ones [...]
Yes, this is a strawberry mirror cake. No, I’m not a member of the Daring Bakers clique - but read on…
Whilst I bake cakes fairly often (there is a new cake on the kitchen bench on average once a fortnight), I generally go for plain cakes that don’t require any fancing piping or icing - [...]
Anyone who has read this blog for any number of time knows that I love spending hours in the kitchen. Baking, in particular - I love rolling up my sleeves and attacking an unfamiliar recipe with gusto, watching with nervous anticipation to see whether it turns out. Nearly all the time, I revel in the [...]
I often joke with my friends that I live in the middle of Sticksville Suburbia - about a 20 minute drive from my home and you encounter paddocks of sleepy-eyed sheep and horses grazing side by side, and there’s an entire strip of road with small-scale farms all side by side selling things from fresh [...]
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 [...]
