Good Friday morning – just a very quick post of this apple crumble tart recipe that I recently put together for Dish magazine. It’s basically got a brown sugar short pastry, topped with a wee bit of sweet jam, filled with loads of tart apples and then a sweet brown sugar crumbly topping. Basically all […]
Well this makes a change – for once I am neither propped up in bed nor at my desk, but at the hairdresser! (Loving the wifi 🙂 ) You may have been wondering if perhaps I had been abducted by aliens given the length of time between posts. The truth is far less exciting – […]
Hello-lo as my sister would say! I’m tapping away, about to go and ‘put my face on’ and head off to mother-in-law’s sister’s wedding (as you do), and thought I should get this ready to post. Look at these lovely, luscious beauties!!! This is just my kind of dessert – creamy, smooth, milky Frangelico-spiked chocolate […]
Oh my God – such wild weather in Auckland over night…and this morning! Rich is flying up from Wellington at 8:30am in gale force winds, yikes 🙁 I can’t believe I won’t be at the airport to greet him, I feel like a totally useless mother for sending a cab, but I will be shooting […]
Morning! This is a quick wee recipe that is also available in the Tuck In (gettit!?) selection over at the lovely Dish magazine. It may not look terribly exciting but is actually bloody delicious – the hot cross buns soak up all that custardy goodness so that the resulting pudding is soft and squishy with […]
Hold on to your hat – I am NOT in bed! I am actually sitting at my desk in front of my monster screen as I write this – having been for a walk, showered and baked a white chocolate brownie – and it’s only 8:25am! OK so obviously this is not a picture of […]
Sometimes the recipes I post are fresh off the plate and page to you, and some are ‘ones I prepared earlier’ – like this recipe for amazingly indulgent no-churn chocolate ice cream and espresso popsicles which I created for Fairfax before my recent big trip to Shanghai/Berlin/Amsterdam. Both recipes are pretty bloody high calorie, so […]
I can’t believe how the time has flown since we got back from overseas. I must admit I felt totally spaced out for a few days after Henry left – I think maybe I had been hanging on, keeping my sh*t together for him, then after he left I was just exhausted. Anyhoo – today […]
Good Morning – surprise, once again I am posting this while lying in bed with a morning coffee, but this time from Amsterdam! The weather outside the Canal House where I am staying is a little grim and I have developed a grotty cold during the trip – but I am still beside myself to […]
Hey-ho, Sunday afternoon the weekend before Christmas and for some reason I am working – argh – thank God it’s a job I love, gettin’ all creative on it or it would be very grim indeed. I just wanted to take a quick break to share version 2 of this pic for the super easy […]
Just sitting here feeling very bah-hum-buggy with a sore back thanks to the melanoma wide-excision yesterday – I am one of those people who rushes around at a million miles an hour, so having to move cautiously is anathema to me. However being kind of chair bound has meant that I have caught up on […]
Last night as I was writing this my mother was preparing the ingredients to make the Spring Super Salad which she took as an entree for dinner with friends. That doesn’t sound very remarkable unless you already know from reading my About Me page that Mum absolutely hates cooking, and always has. I find it […]
Yay – I can’t believe I have finally had the chance to make this recipe which I have been thinking about doing for ages! Last night I had a lovely group of long-standing (can’t say ‘old’) friends for dinner – and after nibbles of mexican-spiced corn and pepper arancini stuffed with mozzarella (obviously not a […]
Lemon tart is my absolute favourite dessert for so many reasons – and as you can see I got a leeeetle bit carried away taking the pics! In my defence, these days I don’t get much of a chance to shoot something purely for the blog, so I thought I may as well keep playing! […]