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Category: Recipes

  • Challah

    While I was making this loaf of challah, glancing down occasionally at my son “playing” around my feet (in other words, unravelling a roll of alfoil and emptied a drawer of baking implements), I realised that I hadn’t been making bread recently because breadmaking is a little more difficult with a toddler, or proto-toddler, than…

  • 100 new recipes: part six

    45/100: Sweet Potato & Chickpea Salad – from this recipe. Roasted sweet potatoes are obviously delicious, and this is a great substantial salad that also works as a main meal. 46/100: Muesli Muffins – from this recipe. I made a batch of these and froze them, and they were very handy to take to work…

  • 100 new recipes: part five

    36/100: Creamy Chicken & Asparagus Linguine. This barely counts as a recipe, but I’m including it anyway. I just fried asparagus, chicken breasts, garlic and cream together into a sauce, then stirred through linguine and served it over spinach leaves, which wilted. I’m having a spinach moment. Delicious spinach. 37/100: Succotash – from this recipe.…

  • 100 new recipes: part four

    26/100: French Toast – from this recipe. This was such an easy breakfast – crispy delicious toast with maple syrup. 27/100: Quick Flatbreads – from this recipe. This is a very quick, fluffy flatbread – easy to get on in the late afternoon for fresh bread with dinner. 28/100: Meatloaf – from this recipe. I…

  • 100 new recipes: part three

    18/100: Braised Eggplant & Prunes – from this recipe. I’d never slow cooked eggplant before, and it’s beautiful – silky and soft, in a lovely broth. 19/100: Homemade Yoghurt – adapted from this recipe. This is so easy to make and tastes great, plus it feels tremendously satisfying eating homemade yoghurt with your breakfast. 20/100:…

  • Making yoghurt in a slow cooker

    I have a cheap slow cooker that I bought at one point and have rarely used – it sits gathering dust in the pantry. Well, it used to – no longer! It is now a ridiculously large and unwieldy yoghurt maker. I’ve made yoghurt twice, based on this method of making it in a slow…

  • 100 new recipes: part two

    Remember how I declared I had a marvellous project to make 50 new recipes this year? Well, I was making such good progress that I changed my mind and made it 100. So! You’ll find recipes 1 – 9 here, and below are 10 through 17: 10/100: Coffee Braised Beef – adapted from this recipe.…

  • 50 new recipes

    I decided not to make resolutions for the new year, and instead decided on a few projects (from small to somewhat ambitious) that I would try and complete in the next twelve months. One of those was making 50 new recipes, with the goal of making different things to my usual recipes – not just…

  • Spiced Apple Sauce Cake

    I made this for my 31st birthday this year, because I had plenty of apple sauce, and I love cream cheese icing. You can tell two things about my baking methods from this photo -I can rarely be bothered sifting icing sugar, and I’m lazy about cutting lining paper for cake tins (so I just…

  • Ginger Beer

    This is such a simple way of making ginger beer in your pantry – it stays relatively well carbonated, and has a lovely bitey gingery taste. You will need a clean and empty 2 or 2.25 litre soft drink bottle and a plastic funnel. I used a soda water bottle so I didn’t worry about…