Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 9, Crunchy

Theme: Crunchy Recipe: Oat and cherry biscuits aka Big Fat Thin Anzac Biscuits Adapted from: Bourke Street Bakery The Easter holiday this year has been fantastic! For any non-Australians, the Easter weekend coincided with Anzac Day, which meant a five day weekend for most people (or a 10 day weekend for me, because I took [...]

Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 6, American

Theme: American Recipe: Chocolate Brownies Cookbook: The Kitchen Diaries The next theme for the Cookbook Challenge is “American” and so I asked my brother, the American food expert in this house, for ideas. He gave me TONS of great ideas, which I then disregarded so I could make brownies. Sorry Bro! But brownies? Who can [...]

International Incident Colour Party

Youtube released the list of their most viewed videos for 2010 recently. Alastair hadn’t seen the double rainbow one yet so we watched it together. And look, if you haven’t seen it – just watch it. It’s hilarious in an awful, cringey, embarrassing, uncomfortable way. My favourite line: What does this mean??? (It means that [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 50, Picnic

Recipe: Jam Drops From: AWW Bake Disclosure: I was sent samples of Bonne Maman jam from 360° Focus. Oh dear, oh my. I’ve been a bad Cookbook Challenger again. This is the second week in a row that I haven’t prepared anything! I fully intended to make something today, but we went out to lunch, [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 24, Chocolate

Recipe: Spicy chocolate cookiesFrom: The Golden Book of Chocolate Second recipe: Mexican chicken moleFrom: The Golden Book of Chocolate We’re on week 24 of the Cookbook Challenge and the theme this week is chocolate. I decided to crack open a book that Bro gave me a while ago – the Golden Book of Chocolate – [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 5, Greek

Recipe: Greek shortbreadFrom: The Australian Women’s Weekly – The Complete Book of Modern Entertaining Second recipe: Lamb skewers with tzatzikiFrom: Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe Cookery Course This weekend, Rilsta from My Food Trail invited me, Kat from Spatula, Spoon & Saturday, and Arale79 from Meals on Budget over to do some baking. The idea was to [...]

Lemon and poppy seed cookies

I’m a bit of a sucker for kitchen gadgets and kitchen tools. Some would say that all you need is a good saucepan and a good knife, but I like my kitchen stuff. One of my favourite kitchen things is a microwave steamer for steaming vegetables in. I love this thing so much that when [...]

Christmas baking: almond crescents, gingerbread cookies and cherry tarts

Happy 2009! I hope that everyone had a fun, safe and hangover free New Years. I would love to say that there were no hangovers in this house but that would be a lie….. a big fat lie, as someone spent the first day of the year SEVERELY ill – and it wasn’t me! But [...]

Peanut brittle cookies

Starting the apple, dried cranberry, and almond loaf got my baking mojo flowing, so I harnessed that energy to make something else. I felt like making biscuits and flicked through the Australian Women’s Weekly “Bake” (you may have noticed that I have been using it a lot lately!). I came across a recipe for peanut [...]

Peanut butter topped brownies

There are some foods that work so well together. One combination that I adore is peanut butter and chocolate. With my tastes tending to savoury items, I don’t generally eat much chocolate, but I do make an exception for these brownies (and Reese’s peanut butter cups… YUM). This recipe is very simple although mine took [...]

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