Sometimes it is nice to just bake something simple. Sure, there’s a time and place for fancy cakes and a two day dough process, but mostly we just want something that’s ready to eat in under 30 minutes. Our grandmothers …
Kids in the kitchen – triple threat lemon cupcakes
It’s the school holidays again, which means filling two weeks with activities that suit everyone. My son is quite happy pottering around home. His current obsession is airplanes so the living room/hallway/spare room/backyard are all filled with various planes and …
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Hello chocolate, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again. Way back in our university days, my friends and I played a game where one word in a song title would be replaced with a word that is …
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Spring is being a total tease at the moment, one day it’s warm and sunny and the next it’s back to a cold wind. It messes with ones wardrobe. It does have one redeeming factor though, and that is pudding. …
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