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Posted in Frozen goodies, Kids, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jun 25th, 2010
I understand that not everyone likes banana. I encourage those people to stop reading now (yes, I mean you S & P). For the banana lovers, this recipe is so easy and tasty that it is absolutely ridiculous. I read about it ages ago on ‘where’s the beef’ (here for the regular version, here [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jun 21st, 2010
A few weeks ago, Mr M and I had both sets of our parents over for dinner. I decided that a lemon tart would be a perfect, no-fuss dessert. However I have never actually made one before, so I went through my recipe books and found a great recipe in ‘I know how to cook’ [...]
Posted in Desserts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jun 14th, 2010
Emily and I love being part of the Daring Kitchen community, though admittedly, they sometimes throw us some curve balls. This month, we decided to throw one right back! The challenge for June was to make pâté and bread. Emily and I are pretty open minded, I like to think, but I don’t eat liver [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jun 7th, 2010
So it has been a bit of a theme lately to try to get creative and find ways of using the food we have so it isn’t wasted. I woke up on Sunday to a few carrots that needed to be used, as well as some excess cream cheese (I bought it to use in [...]
Posted in Cupcakes, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jun 4th, 2010
So I have been intrigued about red velvet cake for a little while now. In my online trawling I kept coming across artful photographs of this bright red layer cake with white frosting. Some mid afternoon browsing of Sugadeux’s website turned my mild interest into a fully fledged craving. As always, the issue for me is the wheat-free factor, [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on May 27th, 2010
I won’t lie. We are pretty proud of this! Croquembouche seems like the kind of thing that would be inordinately difficult, but it was surprisingly pretty simple. When we found out that this was the Daring Bakers’ May challenge, we felt a little intimidated. But it all turned out well. There are three fairly easy [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on May 19th, 2010
I’m still desperately trying to use up all the fruits and vegetables in my house before they spoil. On Saturday, we had some bananas in the fruit bowl that were ‘on the turn’, so I decided to make banana cake. I’ve had some trouble with banana cake in the past – it always turns out [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on May 18th, 2010
Last weekend we headed to P’s country place in Taggerty, in the Yarra Valley. The house is situated in the valley of the Cathedral Ranges and there were amazing views of the ranges and the changing leaves. This was a food oriented weekend and during the preceding days S & I plotted our cooking exploits. [...]
Posted in Biscuits, slices and muffins, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on May 17th, 2010
A few Sundays ago, as part of our Mothers’ Day Feast, we made bomboloni. These are buttery little Italian doughnuts, otherwise known as bomboloni. I love that word – I like repeating it over and over and over again. Bomboloni. Gary made a version of these on masterchef the other Friday night – but let [...]
Posted in Desserts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on May 5th, 2010
I read somewhere recently that one third of all food is thrown out.* This really worries me. I’ve been picturing big wide fields full of lovely vegetables and imagining how one in every three doesn’t even get eaten. It seems like such a waste of water, time, transport costs, petrol etc. etc… Anyway, for this [...]
