A brand new baking cookbook landed on my desk earlier this month. Baker Bleu is by baker-extraordinaire Mike Russell – he of the famous Baker Bleu bakery in Melbourne’s Elsternwick (and lately Double Bay in Sydney). Now the world probably needs another baking book like it needs another private jet, but let’s not let that …
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It’s zucchini season here and I’m churning out the zucchini fritters (along with zucchini tots – did you see those last week?). Zucchinis are one of those vegetables that I think needs something added to them to make them tasty. Despite my ambivalence about eating zucchinis, my family is enthusiastic about growing them. Probably because …
The summer harvest has started, and I’m once again the proud owner of oversized zucchinis. Seriously, you only have to miss them in the garden for a day and suddenly you have more than you can possibly need. It’s right about now I start churning out the zucchini tots. In general, zucchinis are a vegetable …
I didn’t exactly set out to whip up multiple batches of homemade fruit leather, but there I was. Our electricity was off for days and we had a whole freezer of cold, but defrosted food. When we discovered the situation, I had been dreaming that I had just given birth to quins (FIVE babies). It …
The kids have been wanting to have a go at making homemade ginger beer all year. Generally, they only remember at 6.30 on Sunday night, or just before school, or some other inconvenient time. Or else they remembered at a good time, but I didn’t have the ingredients. Finally, during the last holidays, we had …
I know, I know – we need a new chocolate addiction like a hole in the head. But trust me, Katherine Sabbath’s crack is worth getting fat for. Have you discovered the captivatingly colourful and creative Katherine Sabbath? We gave Lottie (our resident baker) Katherine’s first book Bake Australia Great for her birthday last year. …