Fruit Galette Three Ways
It took years to overcome my anxiety about pastry. Everyone always claimed it was easy. But the prospect of fiddly, leaky, time consuming dough with a soggy base or a ...
It took years to overcome my anxiety about pastry. Everyone always claimed it was easy. But the prospect of fiddly, leaky, time consuming dough with a soggy base or a ...
To me, the quintessential summer dessert has to be a fruit pie. My dream pie’s golden lattice top is filled with fruit from the local Pick Your Own farm and eaten under the beating sun,…
Tucked in among the leaves of my first cookery notebook, there is a scribbled on 3x5 file card with the ingredients for an apple cake. I originally salvaged the card thinking it was the famous family cake, but despite…
When the shit hits the fan, I bake. Given the current state of our world, my kitchen now resembles a small bake shop. The boys are well snacked, friends get treats, a little late night…
This is the first salad I make as soon as winter citrus appears on the shelves. I adore blood oranges and eat them with anything and everything through the colder months. I love how their…
I am often faced with a number of kitchen quandaries. Most frequently I find myself in 'the serving piece predicament'. My cupboards are dangerously packed to the hilt with bowls and platters in virtually every…
I love rhubarb. In any form. Roasted, combined with other fruits, as compote, in cakes and as a savoury side to fish or chicken. In a nutshell, cook it and I will eat it. My…
This was a week of firsts and to celebrate I made Upside Down Ginger Cake, an old favourite from one of the many recipe scrapbooks started all those years ago before the internet. With all…
It has been incredibly warm here for the past few weeks. Glorious sunshine, weeks of hot, sticky days with temperatures in the high 20's (around the 80's for all of you who may want a…
These soaked overnight oats are my go-to breakfast. While they are traditionally eaten as a summer porridge, mornings here are chaotic at best. Getting four boys out of the door on time for school renders…
I do not consider myself the competitive type. Tending to steer clear of tournaments, races and high stake games, I prefer to muddle along at my own pace trying to enjoy the activity of the…
I never miss the opportunity for a tea party. This weekend is not only the BIG Jubilee, but it also almost coincides with a birthday in this house for the one whose favourite cake happens…
The beginning of frozen everything season is celebrated with the first sighting of berries in the farmers market, ready to blitz and churn into any semblance of iced delicacy. This week’s market run saw a…
I have implemented a new rule in the house - no meal can take longer to make than to clean up. I find that this is quite easy to enforce Monday - Friday, but come…
Six summers ago we gave up holidaying in hotels. It all just became too stressful – containing young children in public eating spaces for three meals a day, not having ...
As we finally find ourselves drifting into the warmer months when tomatoes are at their peak addictive sweetness and cherries are falling off the trees, here’s a little inspiration to ...