Homemade beef jerky

What a surprise – beef jerky really doesn’t photograph well. So thank you dear instagram filters making shitty photos look still shitty but in a retro way. Did you know you can make beef jerky at home? And it’s REALLY easy?? I just about fell off my chair when I found out. It’s one of [...]

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 2011: Fortnight 12, Spice

Theme: Spice Recipe: Spiced red lentils with cucumber yoghurt From: Ottolenghi’s Plenty Do you ever have those instances when you have a very firm idea of a dish in your head? You know the ingredients you want, you know what the texture should be like, and you know what it should taste like. It sends [...]

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 [...]

Chocolate and chestnut cake

Chestnuts that refuse to peel are completely infuriating. Chestnut season in Australia starts around late March through to May – in some ways I’m glad that it’s short, because they are a total pain in the arse! They taste good and all, but man they can be annoying little buggers. My last fruit and vege [...]

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 8, Eggs

Theme: Eggs Recipe: Tamago Cookbook: AWW Kitchen On to Fortnight 8 of the Cookbook Challenge, and the theme is “eggs”. I doubt anyone is keeping track, but I’ve skipped the 7th theme, which is “celebration”. I baked a cake for celebration, but I’m not going to post it because it turned out to be a [...]

Meal to Share: South African

It’s Meal to Share time! My monthly collaboration with Penny and Celeste where we each cook a course based on a set theme. This month’s theme is “South African” and I was allocated the main course. I made bobotie, which is a baked curried mince dish, with a milk and egg topping.

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 [...]

Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 5, Outdoors

Theme: Outdoors Recipe: Mini lamb pies From: Arabesque Oh no! I’m late for last fortnight’s Cookbook Challenge theme, which was “outdoors”. I cooked my dish, which we took to the Avalon Airshow, but ran out of time to write the post and edit photos. Still, here I am – better late than never. Because I [...]

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