This is childhood comfort, wrapped in a swaddle of filo pastry. It’s food for crummy days spent cleaning out cupboards and trying to persuade your scanner to work. It’s also perfect for when you remember that part of moving involves defrosting the freezer. I’m not sure about you, but it’s a dark exploration in there. […]
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Olympic fever has morphed into phase two over here. Just like the steeplechase (surely one of the more absurd events out there), we’ve covered some hurdles and trudged through some water. We’ve found a new place to live. We’ve thrown off the shackles of sickness. And now we’re really embracing the fact that our adopted […]
This is a cake inspired by tree changes. Tree Change; def: a colloquial term that refers to citified folks making a change, to live somewhere greener, quieter, usually surrounded by trees. There are tree changes afoot in my Australian clan. I’ve just spent the last few days down in Berry; a spectacularly beautiful part of […]
I’m a sucker for a horserace. I hate to gamble. I’m not a huge one for picnics. There’s nothing worse than coming to the end of a day and seeing girls with too many glasses of cheap fizz down their gullet, feather head fixings all askew and slingbacks dangling from their fingers. But there […]
When the skies (metaphoric or otherwise) turn a little dark is it cake or a cocktail that you reach for? Sometimes it’s hard to choose. Introducing; the cocktail cake. This one’s inspired by a dark and stormy. Quick caveat. Things are good. Shining good. Stellar good. They’re good for many reasons. For one there’s […]