Semolina, Coconut and Marmalade Cake
I’ve been reflecting on the comment I made in the post on the Stuffed Monkey about how I don’t like the taste of orange peel and, to be honest, I feel it made me sound like a big baby. I mean, don’t...
View ArticleSimply The Best Carrot Cake
I don’t think I have mentioned this before but I absolutely hate cooked carrots. I don’t mind them chopped up really small in a Bolognese or Shepherd’s Pie but to this day, if I go to my mum’s for a...
View ArticleHasta Luego Cantina!
Hola amigos!!!! It’s done!!! It’s taken me SIX years but have finally finished cooking my way through Cantina by Paul Wilson. Not every recipe mind you, just the ones I wanted to cook. Sixty-one...
View ArticleSavarin Au Rhum – Dining With The Dame 8
Hello crime readers and food lovers! Today we are boarding a luxury train (No, not the Orient Express…but we will get to that one eventually) for murder, robbery and other hijinks. Luckily Poirot is...
View ArticleCowboy Day – Pepsi Cola Cake with Broiled Peanut Butter Frosting
Yippee Ky Yay Cake Lovers, number 5 is alive!!!! This weekend, courtesy of the nicest man on the Internet, Greg Swenson, we are celebrating Cowboy Day with a Cookalong. I have chosen to bake a cake...
View ArticleIt’s the Year of the Tiger, Oh My!
Hello and welcome to the second instalment of my Year of The Tiger special. Today we having a Tiger Skin Chicken from Adam Liaw and some little French almond cakes called Les Tigres (the tigers) from...
View ArticleUpside Down Cake
Welcome to the best of March! I have been dying to share this recipe ever since I made it over a month ago. I held off because after tasting it I thought it would take something absolutely amazing to...
View ArticleBlueberry Cake
Last Friday was Canada day so it seemed like an appropriate time to leave the United States of America and head north in our journey through Good Housekeeping’s World Cookery. It may also be an...
View ArticleTorta Mimosa
Happy International Women’s Day! Today we are celebrating with an Italian treat called a Torta Mimosa. In Italy, men give the women they love a sprig of mimosa on International Women’s Day (March...
View ArticlePineapple and Spice Financier – Murder is Easy
Hello crime readers and food lovers! This month’s read is Murder Is Easy, and I have a LOT to say about it! Starting with a rant about how I ended up choosing a Pineapple and Spice Financier (which...
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