Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 10, Blue

Theme: Blue Recipe: Lemon and blueberry teacakes Cookbook: Ottolenghi I made a big order on Amazon over Easter, picking up cookbooks and food books that had been on my wish list for a while. The free shipping and insanely high Australian dollar was just too tempting to pass up! On Friday, the last of my [...]

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 29, Blue

Recipe: Blueberry and pistachio muesli sliceFrom: Australian Women’s Weekly “Bake” For the Cookbook Challenge this week, the theme is “blue”. And for the Challenge, I present “FAIL SLICE”. What is fail slice? It’s when you forget a vital ingredient when baking. Yes, major fail. But let me tell you what it’s supposed to be. I [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 28, Breakfast

Recipe: CrepesFrom: Stephanie Alexander’s The Cook’s Companion The theme for this week’s Cookbook Challenge is breakfast – fortunately a much easier theme than last week’s! The only problem with the theme this week were all the options – I had visions of omelettes, baked eggs, pancakes, French toast and bacon circulating in my head. But [...]

Provenance: Valentine’s Day Berry degustation

On Valentine’s Day, Dany, the Boys and I headed to Provenance for a berry degustation. The original plan had been to hold the event as a picnic in the Edinburgh Gardens, but with the weather forecast predicting showers, it was held inside the restaurant – picnic style on astro turf! Thanks to Dany for the [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 9, Berry

Recipe: Blueberry and coconut muffinsFrom: Australian Women’s Weekly “Kitchen” So guess what the theme is this week for the Cookbook Challenge? Berry. And guess who did berry pancakes LAST week? Yep, genius over here! Obviously I don’t plan my weekly recipes in advance. If I had been clever, I would’ve done the pancakes this week [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 8, Sweet

Recipe: Berry buttermilk pancakesFrom: Stephanie Alexander’s The Cook’s Companion The theme for this week’s Cookbook Challenge is “sweet” and I decided to make pancakes. What is sweeter than a leisurely Sunday breakfast of pancakes with the one you love? Not much, I think! The Cook’s Companion suggests preparing the batter the night before, up to [...]

Jammy cupcakes

Another weekend, another batch of practice cupcakes before the Almighty Cupcake Challenge. The recipe for this batch was adapted from Australian Women’s Weekly “Bake”. They are basically a vanilla cupcake base, with a dollop of jam swirled through the top. For the icing, I thought I’d try a buttercream with the addition of a couple [...]

Lemon and blueberry cupcakes with lemon cream cheese icing

Practice run 2 in preparation for the Cupcake Challenge – lemon and blueberry cupcakes with lemon cream cheese icing. I really liked these ones. They were moist, fragrant with the lemon, a bit tart from the blueberry and not too sweet. The sweet and tangy cream cheese icing topped them off perfectly – and look [...]

Fig, berry and pistachio burnt-butter tart

Oh, fig season! It never seems to last long enough. Last year I bookmarked a recipe in Gourmet Traveller for this fig, berry and pistachio burnt-butter tart but didn’t get around to making it before fig season ended. Well, I was determined to make it this year and finally had the opportunity to do so [...]

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