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Dessert

Shoofly pie with pecans + white cherries

18 January 2012 American
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It’s pretty ironic that a fly should land on my arm whilst rolling out the pastry for this pie, quickly buzzing away when I said words a little more harsh than shoo.  I mean, really, who says shoo in this day and age other than your nanna or some stressed-out Amish woman freaking out because flies keep landing on [...]

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Frangelico bread puddings + blackcurrants

11 January 2012 Dessert
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The good old bread pudding started it’s life sometime in the early 17th century as a means of using up stale bits of bread, first steamed with either meat or fruit and then baked. As more luxurious ingredients such as sugar, eggs, milk and butter became available the bread and butter pudding was born. These days [...]

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Peach cobbler

2 January 2012 Cakes
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A recent conversation with Anna over at The Littlest Anchovy led to what we were going to cook on the weekend. I think for both of us it’s the only real time we have to cook for our blogs and while I was unsure what I was doing, Anna already had hers planned. She asked [...]

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The ChikaLicious experience – East Village, NYC

30 December 2011 Dessert
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Prior to setting off on our US trip I came across a blog mentioning a certain cookie I simply knew I had to sink my teeth into. Situation dark. I mean, what kind of name is that? Located on East 10th Street in the East Village is this hole-in-the-wall dessert place with some of the [...]

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Bondi Cosmo – Bondi

26 December 2011 Bondi
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It’s funny how insular you can become when living in the city, and before I continue just let me state I’m talking about myself. I’ve been living in this town for almost twenty years now and I can confidently say I rarely make it to the eastern suburbs. Even when I had my car, something [...]

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The Art of French Baking

21 December 2011 Cakes
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My first step through the front door was met with an instant feeling of warmth and desire. The aroma of freshly baked pastry hung in the air, dripping with sweetness from slightly caramelised apricots and sugar. No, I wasn’t stepping into a pâtisserie on a Parisian back-street, I was stepping into my own front door [...]

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David Skoko’s chocolate chilli nibbles

23 November 2011 Cakes
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In researching recipes for my Croatian category I stumbled upon a great travel blog written and photographed by Zürich-based Kerrin Rousset. The Croatian category on her site MyKugelhopf drew me in and reminded me how much I loved travelling around Croatia on my only visit almost ten years ago. Kerrins travels through Istria, the northern region, took [...]

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The Silver Spoon – an Italian classic

14 November 2011 Cookbook Review
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Since 1950 Il Cucchiaio d’Argento has been one of Italy’s best selling cookbooks, featuring a dazzling array of recipes meticulously collected from all corners of the country. It was only 6 years ago that it was translated to English, extending The Silver Spoon to much more of the world with its encyclopedic anthology of culinary Italy. This year the [...]

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