Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 13, Dessert

Theme: Dessert Recipe: Warm apple cake with brandy butterscotch sauce Cookbook: AWW Bake How on earth did it become August already? June and July passed by in a blur, and I didn’t spend much (any) time cooking or baking anything blog worthy. Unfortunately, August will be the same – my parents are visiting for a [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 40, Apple

Recipe: “Crunchy top” apple & pear muffins From: Bill Granger’s Holiday You know when you’ve been baking for a while, you start to get the jist of recipes. Most baked goods follow a similar method – for example, with many cakes you cream the butter and sugar first, and then add the dry and wet [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 38, Spice

Tea spiced pears From: Lighten Up It’s spice week for the Cookbook Challenge and I had SO MANY IDEAS. But guess what else I had a lot of? PEARS. FRIGGIN PEARS. After a brief break from them in my fruit and vegetable delivery box – they reappeared in this week’s box. So a recipe that [...]

Provenance Food & Wine: What a Pear!

In May, Provenance in Collingwood held one of their semi-regular seasonal produce events. The latest was an autumn degustation to celebrate local pears, held over three evenings, with 7 courses for $75 and matched wines for an additional $22. Alastair and I rounded up Dany for a peary peariffic evening. The first course was a [...]

Soup Sunday: French onion soup

Welcome to the Super Duper Long Weekend Edition of Soup Sunday! Since we had a long weekend, I decided to do a soup that was a bit more special than my “dump stuff in a pot” usuals. I started by making beef stock the day before, roasting bones and vegetables before letting them simmer together [...]

Apple pie with custard

This apple pie recipe is from an issue of Delicious and is supposedly Ben O’Donoghue’s Grandma’s recipe. Now, far be it for me to question a recipe that belongs to someone’s gran (respect for your elders and all that), but it did raise a couple of queries. Normally when I make pastry, I add some [...]

Waffles with cinnamon poached pears

Mhmmmm maple syrup… We had an indulgent breakfast on Sunday. I should’ve let us sleep in later to make it super indulgent. Instead, I made us get up early so I could make waffles! Unlike the last time I made waffles, I used a recipe that had baking powder instead of yeast. It was quick, [...]

Apple & Oat pancakes

Generally for brunch on the weekends I prefer something savoury, like eggs. Alastair is a fan of the sweet brunch so sometimes I indulge him and make pancakes. In saying that though, if I had to pick one pancake recipe to make for the rest of my life – this would be it. These are [...]

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