The roulade was staring at me out of the pages of the recipe book on the bench…for days. I had 3 egg whites sitting on the bench for a day, then in the fridge for 3 days, from the previous Read more…
It’s my daughter’s birthday tomorrow and she has requested a Hummingbird cake. I love making hummingbird cakes!! The luscious ingredients make for such a moist delicious cake. I was at Greenland hospital today taking her for her eye check, and Read more…
I just felt like making crème caramel. Lo and behold, there is a recipe for it in my “Great British Bake Off Big Book of Baking”. I decided not the do the coffee version, as I don’t think anyone around Read more…
Its blowing a gale outside, or should I say, it blew a gale last night. 150-200 km/hour winds which brought down trees and tumbled trampolines into the universe to find new homes where they landed. It was gale force last Read more…
On Sunday night, I realized I had nothing to put in the school lunches, so I made the Banana bread. It’s interesting that Banana bread can come in so many shapes and sizes so to speak. I have eaten banana Read more…
I took the dog for a walk today through Victoria Park in the centre of the city. The air is still hot, but there is a crispness about it. Autumn is coming. As I walked through the park, I noticed Read more…
Well sadly for me I had already written this post, but crazy, crazy, I obviously forgot to save the draft. So here we go again. It was easter Tuesday, and with all the chocolate around, I thought it would be Read more…
Its been a long weekend, Easter and I kind of lost track of the date, somehow. So Tuesday has arrived and it is the 3rd March and no bakes have been had yet this month. So with Daylight saving finished, Read more…
It’s always good to try something new. It’s Easter Monday and after a long and lovely weekend, we are having a quiet day around the house, the sun is shining, I am trying to finish my book club book, Villette Read more…
It’s Easter Thursday and shopping is on the list of priorities. With the shops shut on Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, we all race to the supermarket with the fear that we will die of starvation over the Easter Break!!. Read more…