When I made this cake I was thinking about using up the last of the seasonal blueberries and it never occurred to me that this would be the perfect cake to serve for Mothers Day. This upside down almond and …
Category: Old school
Ima’s hot cross buns
I’ve finally conquered the mighty hot cross bun. I’ve never had much success with these before, my previous attempts could have been used for shot put, but finally, success! Also, I’m glad Easter is once a year, because these are …
The very best carrot cake
I’ve always been a firm believer that vegetables do not belong in dessert. Carrots are for dinner, not cake. Zucchini belongs in fritters, not muffins. Black beans go in tacos, not brownies. I made this cake because a few of …
Baklava
So I had planned to bake something pretty extravagant this week, but then I went and shattered the glass bowl of my stand mixer. Again. Luckily, a friend had lent me her copy of ‘Food Safari’ and in amongst all …
Honey + thyme madeleines
I am getting really excited about this years Easter baking and want to make ALL of the things RIGHT NOW, but since it’s only the beginning of March I need to cool my jets for a bit. I’m always looking …
Ina’s Challah
I’m continuing with my ode to cookbook authors this week. I had completely forgotten that the local library is a treasure trove of cookbooks – free to read! So I came home with an armful and set to work finding …
Traffic Light popsicles
I think just about every kiwi kid of the 80’s had at least one meal at the infamous Cobb & Co. Our local one was on the North Shore, attached to the Poenamo Hotel, which was quite ritzy back in …
The most delicious strawberry shortcake
There are some words that just make me cringe. I don’t even want to type them out here (one of them begins with m, one begins with p and none of them belong on a food blog), but one of …
Blueberry pie
Two good things happened last week – blueberries were available for only $2 a punnet (I’ve never seen them at that price before) and my lovely friend Amy went blueberry picking and generously gave me a container of the biggest blueberries …
Christmas treats – Buckeyes
It was Christmas in Darfield, about 15 years ago. As per the rule of Christmas where you can keep eating after dinner, my aunty Di had just put out a tray with Xmas mince pies, nana’s cheese straws, and other …
once upon an egg 