Last night I banged out a post that has been flickering around my consciousness for YEARS. I always wanted to write it, I just didn’t quite know where to start. I wanted to get it right. I wanted to encompass everything it is to be a woman today and struggling with the crazy concept of ‘having…
Lovely old-fashioned pound cake
When we think of ‘cake’, this is the cake that we’re thinking of. That yellow slab of rich, buttery goodness that is the old-fashioned ‘pound’ cake. The pound cake was named after the classic 1:1:1:1 pound of flour, butter, sugar and eggs, but the recipe has been refined over time and the doorstop slabs of…
Making passata
My kids are the luckiest ducks in Ducktown because they happen to be half-Italian and being half-Italian means they have a Nonna and a Nonno who teach them all kinds of wonderful Italiany things. Last weekend was Passata Day (or week, as Nonno likes to pace himself these days). The kids fronted up with Bartolo…
Teach me how to bake a loaf of bread
‘Teach me how’ is a series that encourages the clever clogs wearers of the world to show us less clever types how to do the things we’ve always wanted to do. Darling Bele from Blah Blah Magazine was actually the inspiration behind the whole series. She emailed to tell me that bread wasn’t as hard…
Lovely apple teacake
LOML is the ultimate present giver. Christmas, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Justbecauses, you name it and I’m being indulged in loveliness. I madly drop hints all year, of course, but there is always a little surprise or two that just make me go ‘wow’. Little gifts so perfectly me that it brings a tear to my eye. I’ve also…