On Sunday I went to a Samba Workshop with live drums. There’s nothing like live music to get your creative energy pumping. The teacher was passionate about her country and its culture, Brazil, and was using dance and the music to explain different aspects of the history and culture. For Read more
I’ve just realized I keep baking biscuits…ahhhhhhh. I need to move on, get to the harder bakes, spice it up a bit. This is the last one for a while, I promise. I have been sewing the elastic onto the ends of gloves this afternoon. It’s stressful as my machine Read more
Well these looked easy and a nice fun bake for Saturday afternoon. Actually it was practically evening by the time I made them so we had them for pudding, after our roast (bought from the local roast shop I have to admit, because I was too busy baking to cook Read more
It’s the end of the school holidays and I haven’t got much in the cupboards for school lunches. I spotted these Drop Scones and given that it’s Sunday and I need a simple bake, I thought these would be great. In fact, they resemble my pikelet recipe (see my recipes). Read more
Along with the recipe for Pumpkin and Sunflower Biscuits (the 25th Bake) was a recipe for Chutney. It was like caramelized onions which I love. Given that I have always wanted to know how to make these, this recipe was perfect. Simply chop the onions, add the luscious ingredients of Read more
With the rush on to finish my baker’s dozen recipes this month, I chose these biscuits. They looked delicious and easy. I’m frightened I will use up all the “easy” recipes and get stuck with very complicated sweet pastries and cakes at the end, but never mind, must push on. Read more
It’s Anzac Day, Wednesday the 25th April and I noticed that these biscuits resembled our own Anzac biscuits so thought I would cook these. My daughter is deputy head girl of her college, so will be giving a speech this morning at the local war memorial commemoration. It’s an important Read more
I’m behind on my bakes and now its the second week of the school holidays, I have to boot it. I really should do 5 bakes this week to meet my target of 26 by the end of the month. This was my second this week so let’s see how Read more
I was lying in bed on a Sunday, and I had to be at my Samba workshop in one hour. We are hand making our costumes for the next performance and the idea was to get together to gem the costumes and of course, take a plate and share lunch Read more
I took the dog for a walk through the Roy Clements Treeway after buying the next lot of ingredients for my bake today. I was out of selfraising flour, caster sugar and mascarpone crème(surprise surprise!) but the other ingredients were pretty essential so I tootled off to the local Read more