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Turning Two and Champagne
Turning Two and Champagne
Birthdays, as grown ups (I can't use the word adult, I'm not good at adulting) should always be celebrated with champagne. And as this blogs second birthday coincided with a 50th at the office, a Champagne Cake seemed the way to go. Given how unseasonably warm its been as well, a Raspberry, Cream and Champagne cake seemed like an even BETTER idea. I would have loved to have used real cream, but…
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Feel Good Apple Crumble Tart
Feel Good Apple Crumble Tart
I wasn't quite sure whether this was just Apple Crumble, or if its pastry shell meant I could upgrade to a tart. I love making tarts so decided on the name upgrade. I made this one quite quickly after an argument, and there is something about the 'apple-pie cooking' smell that just made everything seem right with the world again. This recipe is a bit of a shortcut, using canned apples. But that…
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Whiskey is ALWAYS a good idea
Whiskey is ALWAYS a good idea
So we’re fairly well settled into our new home now. I finally unpacked my ridiculous collection of shoes and tidied up under the stairs. When I get round to buying a spare bed and we consider having a housewarming party you’ll know that we’ve properly finished this moving in lark. We have found ourselves pretty busy every weekend since we’ve moved, but I did find time to remember some birthdays…
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Bread, butter and a new kitchen
Bread, butter and a new kitchen
This is a very quick post, and only a couple of photos. We've moved into our home, and while a lot of unpacking still waits to be done I'm starting to get settled into my new kitchen (and enjoying how much better the oven works!). This past week I came home from a trip to the Wednesday market with a loaf of pumpkin bread. Not one full of pumpkin pie-type spiced ones that Pinterest is full of.…
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Lemons, Poppy Seeds and a Blowtorch
Lemons, Poppy Seeds and a Blowtorch
Yeah, I know what you're thinking. I'm a terrible person who doesn't look after their blog. Who can go four months without a peep and expect to just pick it up as if nothing happened. Someone who can miss Christmas, New Year, Australia Day, Valentines Day, I think St Patricks Day was in there, Easter even, and post nothing. Not a thing. The blog equivalent of radio silence. Well, yeah. I did. But…
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Birthday Marble Cake
It was my birthday on Monday. Another year older, and this year has been, well, a lot quieter than the last one in some ways. But aside from the fact that I’m at that point where you really don’t want to get any older, I’m kinda glad we’re getting to the end of 2015. I’m spending the week before and after Christmas away from home, at my parents in Hervey Bay. And very much enjoying having a much…
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South Side Diner
The trouble with working in the CBD is you hear all about new restaurants….but you often don't have the time to actually go and eat at them. Such is the case of the South Side Diner at Southbank, who's menu I've been drolling over for some time. Luckily, thanks to the opportunity of an 'end of reporting year' celebration at work, my colleagues and I headed across the river to try it out. All…
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Because cookies.
It's been a quiet couple of weeks in my kitchen. There was a quick chocolate tart for a fundraiser, and zucchini slice…..oh that giant carrot cake….and the first cake I've ever been paid for, which was the four tier version of my hubby's birthday cake. I guess I've really just been slack at taking pictures and writing posts. This morning, while hubby was at work (not a fan of him working…
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35 and counting.
Friday the 16th was hubbys birthday. And while last years Four Element Rum Cake will go down in history as the most appropriate cake ever made for him, it was perhaps not thought of so fondly by the parents of the young children we shared it with. So this time, I took the rest of my audience into account, and made perhaps my most visually impressive cake of all time. I found this recipe in the…
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Slab Tray Bake of Coffee Delicious
Slab Tray Bake of Coffee Delicious
During one of my many days of sick leave, I gave my mum a call. Mum asked me some questions about this recipe in the latest Donna Hay magazine, and whether or not a recipe could be halved. Of course, once this recipe was brought to my attention……I had to make it too. Trouble is, as I've said before, I'm a bit very greedy, so I made the full tray bake, but I will admit I cut it into 10 slices, and…
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Comfort Food
The trouble with being sick, in flu season, is it opens you up to being more sick….so last weeks adventure turned into a second, third and then fourth virus. Of course, we turn to comfort food when we're feeling low, and one of my favourites in a home cooked roast chicken. I have a preference for the recipe from Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food. Although I'm greedy so I cooked a a MUCH BIGGER…
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Strawberry Crumb Bars, to make a sick Cookie feel better
Strawberry Crumb Bars, to make a sick Cookie feel better
I flew home from Melbourne on the Friday evening, and to Sydney on Saturday lunch time. I know. I'm such a jet setter. Saturday night I worked, we do once a quarter, to test updates. Sunday, which was my free day in Sydney I woke up so ill I couldn't get out of bed. Thank god for room service. Monday, believing I had flu I braved the walk to my office (5 minutes, with a pharmacy downstairs) and…
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Melbourne and the burger dreams are made of
Melbourne and the burger dreams are made of
I recently spent a week in Melbourne for a project at work. It was pretty lonely, and I made a bit of a mistake on my hotel booking and ended up much further away from the office then I should have been. The only upside of this was twice a day, everyday, I walked past this little burger bar. I hadn't given it a second thought, but my manager had suggested it, and knowing he'd ask if I tried it,…
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Happy Birthday!
Today marks the 12 month mark since I made my first post on this blog. Granted, timings have been a little hit and miss but I'm pretty pleased with the fact that we're 12 months in and I'm still blogging. I didn't take a lot of photos of this cake, and none of the preparation. It was hard. There was SO MUCH batter, and I didn't really think things through, for example, the cake batter? 7 bowls…
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Whats Up Doc?
Everyone always underestimates carrot cake. Even me. I hadn't even TRIED it till last year. Turns out its one of my girlfriends favourites, and when I read THIS recipe I realised I like EVERYTHING IN IT (although, walnuts are iffy….so I've swapped them out PERMANENTLY for pecans). So, I made it, and one loaf went to hubbys work and was demolished, and one loaf went to my work and I've never seen…
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4 and 20 Blackbirds
4 and 20 Blackbirds
I don't know about you, but I have a terrible habit of buying food magazines (and yes, books, lets be honest) and after flicking through them, NOT MAKING A SINGLE RECIPE. Its had gotten so bad that the second last Donna Hay magazine I bought, I made myself recreate at least six of the recipes. Some of them more than once. In the spirit of making sure I cook at least one recipe from each magazine…
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Ladies Trip!
Ha! You thought I’d forgotten my blog again….BUT I HAVEN’T! I have instead spent this past weekend in Sydney on a girls trip with my Mum and twin sister. Which made THE BEST CHANGE from being there for work. We flew down on Friday afternoon, and after checking into a hotel that was much fancier than we are, took my Mum straight down to The Rocks, so she could see the Harbour Bridge and the Opera…
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