I have a few roses popping up in my garden every now and then as the weather turns cooler. And I have plenty of odd and end uses for the rose petals. I use them to make ice creams, spike desserts, infuse in tea, cook into a chutney and garnish cakes. This time around I decided to try out a fudge recipe that I had been thinking of. I have taken my 5-minute microwaveable fudge recipe and tried out …
I recently got a copy of Belinda Jeffery’s Mix & Bake cookbook from my local library. It is full of delicious looking goodies and at the turn of every page, you have to stop yourself from rushing to the kitchen to churn out something from your oven. The recipes are delightfully simple in this book and there are quite a few nice ones for brownies, another one of my favorite indulgences. I settled on Belinda’s One-pan Macadamia And Chocolate Chip …
I must admit, the paper fairies got to me! When I came across a post where Bron‘s lovely daughters dressed up as fairies, held up wispy pieces of paper with some magical ingredients scrawled on them, I knew I was going to bite the bullet and participate in my first ever Paperchef. The task at hand sounded like fun, the fours ingredients revealed for the challenge were floury potatoes, proscuitto, thyme and Mother’s Day. What would I make with these …
I am very excited to start off a new series for the blog today. It is called 10 Questions and every other week, I will be putting a fellow food blogger on the hotseat and ask them .. you guessed right! 10 Questions! The lovely Bron Marshall of the Bron Marshall fame is the first to be put on the spot. When I mentioned doing this feature with her, she was very excited and not only did she answer the …
I have been craving chocolate a lot lately. Maybe it is the chill in the air or the fact that I am running my knees off three times a week, visions of brownies and fudgy chocolate ganache cloud my thoughts throughout the day. So I thought about making NTTC May 2009 about chocolate, anything chocolate really. Sounds like fun right? The official NTTC No. 3 MAY 2009 Challenge begins today as I write this post and ends on May 31, …
The first ever NTTC, Not Time To Cook happened in March 2009 and 6 people participated. It wasn’t a lot, but it got my hopes up and I was really excited to do the next one. This time around I even came up with a theme to make it more fun. Make a dessert! I said. Use Fruits! I said. In my eagerness, I also designed a bunch of nifty banners to use and promote the event. Nutty Ten to …
Summer is long gone and our chilli plants have gone into deep winter hibernation. But not before they gave us a parting gift of abundantly long, green, shiny chillies. When the chillies are so nice and firm, they are the perfect candidates to be fritter-ised as I like to call it. Give them a light rinse in the water and pat them dry. Slit them down lengthwise from crown to tip, but not right through, so you can peep …
The other night dinner was cooked and ready way before dinner time. Which is a very rare occurrence in our home as I struggle to work and also cook up something on the side to tame our growling bellies later in the evening. I had not baked my trusty bread pudding in a while, so decided to plunge ahead and make dessert. Then I saw the oversized pack of 10 croissants that we had bought the previous evening from the …
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