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Baked Honey and Bay Custards with Pears

03:29 PM, March 29, 2016 |

I firmly believe that dessert is important for morale. It’s convivial. It’s ceremonial. Most nights of the week it’s serviced with a piece of 90 % chocolate and the last bit of my glass of red wine while I silently slink into the easy part of the evening.

But when you’re entertaining it’s the section of the event that encourages you to push back from the table a little and let loose with your opinions. Donald Trump and misogyny? Oh, gracious, pull up a chair. Let’s get started.

Without dessert a meal with friends feels like the first part of a parentheses, open and expectant – unfinished. (You’re never really sure when …

Switchable Savoury Loaf

08:21 AM, March 23, 2016 |

almonds, baking, Breakfast, gluten free, quinoa, slow carb, snacks, sweet potato, toddler food, vegetarian

I should eat more vegetables. I should be more flexible. I should spend more time whimsically painting with my toddler, then file my mail like an adult and sew up the diminutive holes where moths have feasted on my favourite shirt. I should spend less time falling down google-holes about whatever happened to the cast of ‘Centre Stage’.

If what you need in your life right now is an answer to at least two of those quandaries, in an ever switchable savoury loaf, skip straight to the bottom for the recipe.

Here’s an update from this neck of the wood. This recipe is proving something of a godsend right now.

This past week …

Soothing Vegan Curry

11:48 AM, March 14, 2016 |

dairy free, gluten free, Indian, Uncategorized, vegetarian

There are things that are eminently useful to keep on hand. A tupperware of cooked quinoa- sure. A canister of rolled oats- absolutely. A freezer with crannies hosting limpid bananas, ripe for blitzing into breads and bakes – certainly.

And a ‘serves all’ vegan curry will always be a gift to yourself. (If that’s what you’re after, post haste skip straight to the bottom for an easy, no paste-required recipe). A vegan curry is useful to pimp up for babysitters, when you get the chance to gad about on the town to celebrate your eight year wedding anniversary (where in the heck did those years go?). It’s useful to primp with …