Retro Food For Modern Times – Singers and Swingers in The Kitchen – Roberta...
Hello and welcome to the new look Retro Food For Modern Times. I’m still tweaking the design so feedback would be greatly appreciated! I also know I have gone overboard on this book. I promise this...
View ArticleRetro Food For Modern Times: Good Cooking for (Almost) Everyone (1981)
Hello there, time to take a look into a new book. Welcome to Mary Meredith’s Good Cooking for Everyone. Let me just start with a little quibble. When i think of 1981, I think of this: And not so much...
View ArticleWatch Me Pull a Magic Cake Out Of My Hat
Anyone else out there remember Saturday morning cartoons and the gang from Rocky and Bullwinkle? One of the running gags was that Bullwinkle was forever trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat… And...
View ArticleNutty Nutella Cake… with a Meringue Topping
Just as we finish a good meal with something sweet, so shall we round out the month of madness with one of the kookiest recipes I’ve seen lately. And here it is: Looking at that photo, I know what...
View ArticleBirthday Mushroom Cake
Why should you invite a mushroom to your birthday? Hands up all of you who thought I was going to go with that corny old “Because he’s a fun guy” schtick? Well boo to you!!! My jokes are never that...
View ArticleSkippy Cake For Sara. Kinda, Maybe, Sorta
My friend Sara recently sat, and passed with flying colours, her Australian citizenship test. By way of celebration, she asked me to bake her a cheesecake. Sara has asked me many times to make her a...
View ArticleBirthday Beatles Cake
They say it’s your birthday It’s my birthday too, yeah They say it’s your birthday We’re gonna have a good time I’m glad it’s your birthday Happy birthday to you Hey there So yes, it was my...
View ArticleRosemary and Blood Orange Cake
What Katie Ate by Katie Quinn Davies is the featured book on the Cookbook Guru this month. I made Katie’s Rosemary and Blood Orange Cake. It turned out pretty well, despite some massive hesitations...
View ArticleThe Dishiest Dish – Fruit and Nut Gingerbread Loaf
What a week! Some weeks are diamonds and this week everything I made turned out really well and there was not much to choose between them. So I thought I would talk to you about them all. First up...
View ArticleA Peacock Cake & The Gala At Yala Part 1
It was recently the fussiest eater in the world’s birthday and I made him a peacock cake! Isn’t it adorable? Even if I do say so myself! And for the non-bakers out there it is all assembly, no baking...
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 ArticleMy Swan Lake Cake
Remember…hmm about a year ago when I bought the re-issue of the classic Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book? And I swore black, blind and blue that this year for my birthday I would make the...
View ArticleSemolina, 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 ArticleRetro Food For Modern Times – Singers and Swingers in The Kitchen – Roberta...
Hello and welcome to the new look Retro Food For Modern Times. I’m still tweaking the design so feedback would be greatly appreciated! I also know I have gone overboard on this book. I promise this...
View ArticleRetro Food For Modern Times: Good Cooking for (Almost) Everyone (1981)
Hello there, time to take a look into a new book. Welcome to Mary Meredith’s Good Cooking for Everyone. Let me just start with a little quibble. When i think of 1981, I think of this: And not so much...
View ArticleWatch Me Pull a Magic Cake Out Of My Hat
Anyone else out there remember Saturday morning cartoons and the gang from Rocky and Bullwinkle? One of the running gags was that Bullwinkle was forever trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat… And...
View ArticleREPOST – A Peacock Cake & The Gala At Yala Part 1
It was recently the fussiest eater in the world’s birthday and I made him a peacock cake! Isn’t it adorable? Even if I do say so myself! And for the non-bakers out there it is all assembly, no baking...
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...
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