This is another recipe along the lines of the whoopie pies from last week – jumping on the bandwagon, so to speak, and I’m looking straight at Adriano Zumbo to blame here – although there’s a slight difference in this case as I have eaten many macarons in my time and none of them, none of them,…
Whoopie pies have become something of a flash fad in the baking world this past year and I’ve looked at them from a distance, considering if I’d like them or not. Seeing they look like an unfrozen icecream sandwich I thought ‘Yes, I’m sure they are tasty but can I be bothered making them?’ Then…
Having a vegetarian girlfriend over for dinner recently provided the perfect opportunity to flick through some recipe books to see what we could make for her. Adam found this one and declared it to be the winner. And indeed it was. Yes, it took quite a bit of preparation, but it was enormous and kept…
I first saw this recipe in The Essential New York Times Cookbook months and months ago and I was intrigued on several counts. First, because it combines two of my favourite things – cheese and olives – in a way I hadn’t heard of before. Second, and I don’t know why, but it conjured…
Eating poached pears in winter sounds like a very, well, wintery thing to do, doesn’t it? I don’t eat a lot of fruit, truth be told, but I do enjoy a nice, juicy, soft pear. Emphasis on the soft. Crunchy pears send shivers down my back. Yuk. But cooked? I’d not done that before. So…
I’m told that ‘aglio e olio’ means ‘garlic and oil’ in Italian and there’s not a whole else besides in this dish. I found the recipe in a vegetarian cookbook, but I’m sure its one of those that can – and has – been amended according to taste and availability of ingredients. My version was…
This morning, thanks to Disney, we went along with a whole bunch of other bloggers and guests to an advance screening of the new Pixar movie, Brave. There was highland dancing, bagpipes and the usual mega-long queue for face-painting. The children were much more patient than I ever would’ve been and waited their turn; Riley…
I got a big shock when I looked back to find that the last time I’d done a ‘One Recipe a Week’ post for my Living List (spoiler alert: that little baby is going to really heat up over the next two months) was about nine weeks ago. I figured that this long weekend would…
It’s Good Friday, otherwise known as Hot Cross Bun day. It took me a long time to get motivated this morning, but I eventually got moving with a little help from the kids. What helped was I wanted to see if I could do a lazy version of a recipe I’d never tried before. …
