I'd love to make a cake like this! The cake itself would be simple enough - a pound cake is always easy or, if I'm really lazy, I can buy a couple of plain sponges to play with.
There's a lot more …
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To have a cake and eat it too
November 8, 2010 by
Cherry Blossom
October 26, 2010 by
Spring always makes me think of Cherry Blossoms and particularly the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan. I want to go!
Spring is in April in Japan, roundabouts. Some of the regions have cherry trees …
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Slowly Cooked Perfect Pot Roast
October 17, 2010 by
As a young (much younger) home-maker, mother and food-preparer, I shied away from what I saw as difficult to cook. Like pot roast.
My mother used to cook pot roast in a pressure cooker, a sort of …
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Every Evening I go Batty
October 17, 2010 by
Each evening the Melbourne skyline presents an eerie halloween-type appearance as thousands of bats fly across the city.
The colony is a stone's throw from my little cottage on the creek and I …
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The Great Glitch
June 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The last day of June, 2010 will always be remembered as the Great Squidoo Lockout.
A glitch galloped through the Squidoo system. Did it karoom into the Spam Filter?
It started surreptitiously, …
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The Quince Hit
April 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Do you cook with quince?
A quince is wonderful poached in a syrup spiced with cinnamon and clove and reveals another quality of wonder - it turns a luscious shade, anywhere from deep pink to rich …
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