I collect cookbooks. I love them. I love the pages and pages filled with possibilities and pretty pictures. I have about 40 of them. Excessive? Probably, but it doesnβt stop me wanting more. I remember learning in a food history paper I once took that we buy cookbooks because we are wooed by the lifestyle portrayed in them. Effortless entertaining, overflowing laughter and platter upon platter of the most delectable food. They give the idea that this author lives the most sociable and fabulous of lifestyles and is of course the most popular of all his or her friends.
Read MoreSpicy Date Cake With That Lush Coconut Topping You Just Can't Refuse
It's been like a month. My absence wasn't due to laziness; I was brewing something good up for you.
Was that an appropriate use of a semi colon? Someone help?
Read MoreOrange Almond Syrup Cake
So I made this cake originally for Shine's Orange Friday appeal where we raffled it off and made $167.50 to help support the victims of domestic abuse in New Zealand. See, sharing is caring! I found myself making it again for when the boyfriend's parents came over to meet my parents for the first time. Its a good one for sure when you don't feel like making a complicated cake or faffing around with icing one.
Read MoreFudgy Baked Chocolate Doughnuts
This post is about glorious little nuggets of baked joy.
Read MoreNectarine Raspberry Summer Cake
Birthday cakes are my favourite to make, especially if unexpected. Funnily enough I am inclined to go to more effort if they are a surprise. This one here was a surprise (or at least it was supposed to be).
Read MoreCherry Blossom Cake (Cherry Coconut Cake)
This would make a great Valentines/Galentines day cake if that sorta thing floats your boat. I personally am more a fan of telling Bae he is great everyday than restricting it to just one day a year. But hey if someone delivered me a cute floral cake this Sunday I wouldn't complain.
Read MoreDulce De Leche Ice Cream
Last September I thought it would be a great idea to run around South America for a bit. It was.
The other day Mum mentioned that it had looked like I was back to my pre-trip weight. Double edged compliment right there. To be fair though I am not surprised I packed it on in the three weeks I was away. My diet consisted of white bread, meat, dulce de leche and cachaca. Oh and ice cream! All the dulce de leche ice cream I could find. It was glorious, man it seemed in each town or city the ice cream was better than the last.
Read MoreDylan's Risotto (the best risotto of my life)
A young man made me food. Not just any food either, my favourite food. I was made the most delicious risotto of my life. To top it all off the man making it has the most excellent face I've ever seen as well. So much win in one go.
Read MoreBanana, Peanut Butter and Salted Caramel Ice Cream
I went through one of the freezers yesterday and threw out two supermarket bags of freezer burnt food and swept out a lot of rogue peas in order to make room for this tub. I've made three tubs in a week. That is a litre and a half of cream in a week and 15 eggs just on ice cream alone!
Read MoreHoney, Mascarpone and Gingernut Ice Cream
Even though my flat has three freezers in it I am still rapidly running out of freezer space. The novelty of my ice cream churner has not yet worn off. This week I tried my hand at making the gingernut ice cream I had always promised to make my friend Sophie (who loves gingernuts).
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