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Homemade Pizza Sauce, Margherita Pizza And A Giveaway

May 16, 2012

A simple recipe for a classic homemade tomato sauce to use on your pizzas or as your pasta base along with a recipe for Margherita Pizza and how it got its name

Tagged: | baking, basil, bread, cheese, italian, italy, margherita, pizza, street food, tomato, yeast

Basic Pizza Dough

May 14, 2012

A quick to make, beautifully textured pizza dough recipe by Jamie Oliver. The addition of semolina creates a wonderfully crispy crust

Tagged: | bread, dough, flour, italian, italy, pizza, semolina, yeast

Cereal Nut Roll And Not So Sweet Chocolate Cake

April 3, 2012

An old fashioned nut roll tin find at a vintage thrift store gives birth to this Cereal Loaf and a weekend favourite recipe for a not so sweet Chocolate Cake

Tagged: | baking, breakfast, brown, cake, cereal, chocolate, kids, nut, old-fashioned, picnic, retro

Brown Mushroom Tortano

January 31, 2012

Brown Mushroom Tortano - A gorgeous yeast Napolitan bread stuffed with balsamic glazed swiss mushrooms and stringy cheese. Perfect for picnics and barbecues

Tagged: | baking, balsamic vinegar, barbecue, bread, brown, italian, mushroom, picnic, summer, thyme, tortano, yeast

Brown Bread And Rum Ice Cream

November 1, 2011

Brown Bread And Rum No Churn Ice Cream. Tell me you want it! Scream it to me! Because it is THAT good! It will make you feel like naughty and nice, you know? those

Tagged: | bread, chilled, dairy, dessert, ice cream, liqueur, orange, rum, summer

Little Brown Bread

October 6, 2011

A few wednesdays ago, Gummi Bear announced that he was going to bake bread. He didn’t seem to care whether I was on board or not. He then proceeded to the kitchen and fished

Tagged: | 101 cookbooks, autumn, baking, bread, brown, heidi swanson, honey, kids, oats, wholefoods, yeast

Olive Parmesan And Herb Loaf

September 7, 2011

I promise myself before I start writing a new post that I will not talk about the weather. I really promise myself. But then I start writing and weather is the first thing that

Tagged: | bread, buttermilk, canapes, cayenne pepper, egg, jalapeno, loaf, lunchbox, olive, parmesan, picnic, spring, sun-dried tomato, thyme

Almond And Rose Bread – Amande Rose Pain

May 27, 2011

On a visit to a deli and specialty food store in St.Ives, I found a beautifully packaged box of rose petals by Pariya. It is no secret that I love rose petals in cooking and

Tagged: | almond, baking, bread, french, high-tea, lemon, rose

Buttermilk Banana Walnut Bread

September 30, 2010

As bakers, we underestimate the value of having a frozen loaf of a delicious cake or bread in the freezer. A frozen slab of something spongy and fluffy, just waiting to be heated or toasted

Tagged: | baking, banana, buttermilk, cinnamon, nutmeg, walnut

Simple Onion And Rosemary Focaccia

August 23, 2010

Rosemary is a beautiful herb and it grows like a weed. My front yard has a sparse rosemary bush with leaves as fine as needles. My backyard on the other end has a lush, native

Tagged: | bread, focaccia, herbs, onion, rosemary, winter

Potato Olive And Sun Dried Tomato Bread

November 17, 2009

I have been baking breakfast breads for a while now and they are all sweet, invariably. So this time around I decided to bake a brunch bread instead and make it really savory. After

Tagged: | autumn, baking, bistro, bread, brunch, olive, potato, tomato

Caramel Cinnamon And Fig Loaf

August 31, 2009

In need of a quick bread. Please, no banana! What do I have? What do I have? Lots of figs, dried ones at that. Hmmmmmm. Browse books, browse more books. Scan "fig" in the

Tagged: | autumn, baking, bread, brown, cake, caramel, cinnamon, fig, fruit

Deliciously Moist Healthy Wholemeal Banana Maple Bread

July 29, 2009

You have been forewarned. There are no delicious, crumbly, nut-flecked pictures of banana bread in this post. Continue reading at your own risk. Sorry about that little bit of melodrama, I just felt like

Tagged: | autumn, baking, banana, bread, brown, cake, fruit, healthy, maple, nuts, wholefoods

Mango Honey And Banana Bread

April 10, 2009

Easter is a sugar trap, quite literally. With its scores of hot cross buns, easter cookies, spring cakes and easter eggs in all sizes and shapes stuffed with candies and what nots, Easter is

Tagged: | baking, banana, bistro, bread, brown, fruit, healthy, honey, lunchbox, mango, natural

Cranberry Zucchini And Walnut Bread

March 3, 2009

Savoury breads are the new quiche! proclaims an acclaimed food magazine this month as Australia heads into autumn. But this trend is not just limited to our shores, the magazine further explains. Cafes and delis

Tagged: | baking, bread, nuts, vegetarian