Brioche

Five reasons why brioche rocks: 1: Butter. 2: Butter. 3: Butter. 4: Butter. 5: Butter. Need more convincing? Here’s five more reasons. 6: You can fill it with almost anything. 7: It justifies buying a stand mixer. 8: It can be sweet for dessert, or savoury for a snack. 9: It’s French for awesome. (I [...]

Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 7, Celebration

Theme: Celebration Recipe: Hot cross buns From: Australian Women’s Weekly Bake We’re backtracking a fortnight to the celebration theme for the Cookbook Challenge, which you may remember I skipped over because I dropped a cake into the sink. Well, I’m back on theme and since it’s Easter, I rather predictably made hot cross buns. (Side [...]

Cooking the Books: Bill Granger’s Holiday

I’ve been struck down by man-flu this week (i.e. my pathetic-ness and whingieness about being sickness eclipses my actual illness). Instead of staying home in bed to recover, we’ve had a busy weekend of social events, so I’ve shared my pathetic self with friends (though hopefully I haven’t shared my cold!). One of the social [...]

International Incident Hot Dog Party

For the first International Incident Party for 2011, we’re all about hot dogs. True to form, I’ve left it to the very last minute and was up early this morning to finish cooking, assembling and photographing my dish. However, the cats were super happy to see me so early and lots of purring and head [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 52, Outdoors

Recipe: Asparagus and gruyere tart From: AWW Kitchen Recipe 2: Onion Foccacia From: AWW Bake It’s the last week of the Cookbook Challenge! I can’t believe that April, Kat, Shellie and I started it a year ago. 52 themes later, one post and at least one recipe each week, this is the LAST ONE. Amazing! [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 48, Bread

A very quick post for this week’s Cookbook Challenge because I’m still in holiday mode! (But I go back to work tomorrow -boo!). The theme for this week is “bread”. I wanted to do a proper yeast bread, but still being in holiday mode means that we slept in this morning and by the time [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 30, Baked

Recipe: Molasses oatmeal loafFrom: Quick Breads We’re on to week 30 of the Cookbook Challenge, and the theme is “baked”. Easy right?! For someone who does a lot of baking, this week’s theme was great! I was pretty keen to bake bread of some kind, but I ran out of time to do a proper [...]

Bagels

Note: This is a scheduled post – Alastair and I are currently in Hong Kong and will be back home soon. Normal programming will resume shortly! At my old job, I had a terrible habit of not taking breakfast to work, and buying breakfast at the cafe in our building. I also had a bad [...]

Soup Sunday: Curried pumpkin and kumara soup + onion focaccia

Gosh, I’m running a bit late with the Soup Sunday post – it’s almost Sunday again! (And I have a super duper long weekend edition planned. Oh my!). The soup for this Sunday helped me use up bits and pieces – one of the reasons I love making soup! I had a few kumara (sweet [...]

Pumpkin damper with parmesan and sage

The past few weeks we’ve been having Soup Sundays. It hasn’t really happened on purpose, but somehow Sunday rolling around had put me in the mood to make soup. I’m sure the cooler weather has had something to do with it! The soup last Sunday was a vegetable and lentil soup and I wanted to [...]

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