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Smoked Salmon and Camembert Quiche
Read more: Smoked Salmon and Camembert QuicheThis recipe from Taste fit the bill when I was looking for a quick quiche to make for lunch. “Oh wow,” said my guest, “you made your own pastry.” Actually, I didn’t, but apparently I’m skilled at manhandling frozen pastry until it looks homemade. Good to know. This was wonderful, but I think that’s easy…
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Bean & Baby Spinach Salad
Read more: Bean & Baby Spinach SaladI adapted this recipe from a Valli Little recipe in the September 2007 edition of delicious magazine. It’s a lovely tangy salad, with a gorgeous dressing. The original has lots of mint in it as the main leafy substance, while I used very little – I think it could have used a bit more, but…
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Mini Raspberry Cheesecakes
Read more: Mini Raspberry CheesecakesI left it way too late in the day to photograph these little cheesecakes (I was too busy eating them), and as a result neither of these photos are really in focus – hence the small size. I had my zoom lens on the camera, and took the cake out to the back steps so…
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Springtime Lunches
Read more: Springtime LunchesThe weather’s warming up, the wild ducks have herds of fluffy baby ducklings following them around, and there are gangly calfs lolloping around in the fields. It’s springtime, and that means it’s time for lunches that stretch into the afternoon and cool concoctions in jugs. This is an apple and berry punch – a mixture…
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In sepia
Read more: In sepiaI rather like this Photoshopping – Meg, at our last book club gathering, looks very refined and lovely (although I’m sure I should credit that to Meg herself rather than Photoshop. But I think the sepia adds a little something).
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Lemon & Chocolate Loaf Cake
Read more: Lemon & Chocolate Loaf CakeMan, I love this cake. It’s so lovely and light and moist and generally the bomb – also I think you could substitute nuts or cranberries or… other things for the chocolate and you would get a completely different cake-vibe. Man. How articulate. Recipe is from an old Women’s Weekly cookbook. ingredients: 125g butter 1…
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Chocolate Chip & Vanilla Buttercream Cupcakes
Read more: Chocolate Chip & Vanilla Buttercream CupcakesI love cupcakes. The perfect serving size, the perfect amount of icing & the prospect of silly decorations. I restrained myself here with pink sprinkles. I sometimes find it a bit of a challenge to make nice moist cupcakes – this particular batch was a little dry but I’m fairly sure that’s because I mis-measured…
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Softies
Read more: SoftiesOur cats are strictly indoor cats for several reasons. Partly because despite them being the sookiest cats in the universe, I don’t want them wreaking havoc amongst the bird/lizard/small mammal population around the house (which is quite a wide and varied population, given that we live in the middle of the bush). Partly because I…
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Up the bridge & down the other side
Read more: Up the bridge & down the other sideGetting sick two weeks before the Bridge to Brisbane spoiled the Training Plan of Awesomeness (which involved, you know, practicing my running) and the Nonexistent Training Plan was instituted instead, which mostly involved sitting around and coughing. So I didn’t get a chance to break in my new running shoes, but in flash of brilliance, decided…
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Improving their wind resistance
Read more: Improving their wind resistanceI went to the races at Doomben for Kat’s birthday. It was fun – we had a table on the grass, right near the fence, which enabled me to lean over and take photos every time the horses went thumping past. I am happy to say I’ll never have a gambling problem. I just don’t…
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