A while back Jane-Anne tweeted asking a question about her sourdough. Celia, from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial, is the sourdough expert in my opinion, and so I directed Jane-Anne to Celia. Serendipity prevailed, and the very same day Celia blogged … Continue reading
At the end of January, two things happened which were serendipitous. The first was that when I went to get my daily banana out of the fruit bowl, I noticed that all of them were over ripe. Our summer days … Continue reading
This month for The Secret Recipe Club, I was assigned Christine’s Kitchen Chronicles. Christine’s real life job is as an engineer and she comes from a family of cooks. Even though she only started cooking at college, you can find … Continue reading
How amazing that this month, my Secret Recipe Club assignment was the same blog that had me last month. I am very familiar with Cairns Manor and I was so excited to look around the blog for something to make. Jo … Continue reading
I think that sometime in the past ten years I became old fashioned. I am not sure if this has anything to do with getting married and settling down – or in my case, settling down and getting married, or … Continue reading
Shhhh, I have a guilty secret! I think that calories don’t count when I am eating with friends! There is nothing nicer than sneaking out of the office for a quick bite to eat with a friend, or meeting someone … Continue reading
For those of you who are regular readers of my blog you will notice that I always replace sugar with fructose in my recipes. I am sucrose intolerant which means my body cannot digest sucrose. I have been asked on … Continue reading
When I was in my twenties, I worked at the Hard Rock Café. We would get to work at 10am in the morning to tidy up from the night before, and set up for lunch. The kitchen opened for lunch … Continue reading
For me, there are many challenges when baking sugar free products. But the biggest challenge to date has been to find a recipe for biscuits that turn out a crispy, crunchy morsel of goodness. I wanted to use my heart … Continue reading
This month, the Crazy Cooking Challenge is to bake a chocolate cake. I decided to make Betty Bake’s Chocolate Beetroot Cake as I was wondering whether Dave, who does not like beetroot, would notice it in the cake. No-one who had a taste … Continue reading