I’ve been on a mission today, feeling a great weight of possessions on my back and already we have turned the corner and are more than half-way through our lease and moving in less than six months’ time. Pah. That again. If we have another 1 year lease, I think I’ll scream. I am sick [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Chucking out cookbooks
Posted in Misc, Yums on July 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Party Leftover Eradication Complete
Posted in Yums on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am a one woman eating-machine. All that remains of the party food are several off-cuts from the piwakawaka cake, un-iced. I didn’t feel like icing them, and I could see that they were getting a bit stale. So I thought (having never eaten it before) what about a bread-and-butter pudding made with the chocolate [...]
Like I needed another project…
Posted in Yums on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am thoroughly baked-out. I made Rata some cheese muffins yesterday, which illustrated to me just how little I want to mix flour with other things right now. But after the party on Saturday, Cat gave me some cherry guavas from her tree, so I made some jelly on Sunday. The jars are a bit [...]
Cakesome!
Posted in Yums on July 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Let’s be honest: I have been waiting to make this cake all year. At least. Maybe I even thought of the idea before Rata was born. Whatever the case, today I baked two doubled recipes of my standard chocolate cake, cut them into shapes, fitted it together and iced it. Twice. It took all day. [...]
Wee-hee! Sugar High!
Posted in Yums on July 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Rata’s first birthday party was a raging success. Here is some token food porn to make you feel like you really missed out. Punch bowl set-up (pre-punch). Recipe: One pint each cold tea, dry lemonade, ginger ale, grapefruit juice, two pints ‘apple and orange’ juice, 1/4 cup lime cordial, mint leaves, sliced citrus, some ice [...]
The tea cosy of awesome
Posted in Sewing on July 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Finally, I have a photo worth sharing of the tea cosy I made my mum for her birthday. The inspiration came from a photo in the front of Rosemary McLeod’s book Thrift to Fantasy, a highly recommended book if you have time on your hands to then try making half of what you have viewed [...]
Cheese Muffins
Posted in Yums on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Their bottoms are shiny, their tops are cheesy, their insides light and delicious. Never making scones again. Rata has been feverish and un-hungry, so I’m trying to coax her back to the land of food with tasty cheesy things. Yesterday she devoured a savoury muffin from Pandora Bakery. These don’t pack quite so much punch [...]
Superlative Speculaas
Posted in Yums on July 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The countdown to Rata’s birthday has begun. The bake-a-thon has commenced. Anything that will keep for a week in the tin was on my list of tasks for this week, and that meant I was to try my hand at speculaas, the Dutch Christmas biscuit that is so very moreish. Yes, yes, I’m going to [...]
The taste of failure…
Posted in Yums on July 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
…is actually the same as the taste of success, if you’re making brandy snaps. See, the mixture is easy enough. Cooking them is easy enough. It’s the getting them off the tray with the spatula in one, flat piece that turned out to be my downfall. Aside from all other issues of timing it so [...]
