Theme: Soup Recipe: Potage St Germain Cookbook: The Australian Women’s Weekly Essential Soup Cookbook As I mentioned earlier, part of the reason I accepted my mother’s strict finger-waggling decree to not cancel my Brisbane trip was that I planned to come back and spend Sunday cooking for her, my father, and my grandmother, in order [...]
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Theme: Hearty Recipe: Deliciously Wicked Upside-Down Pear Berry and Almond Cake Cookbook: Wicked by delicious. I know what you’re doing at this very moment. You’re looking at the above theme for the Cookbook Challenge, then you’re looking at my pictures of cake, and now, lastly, you’re either rolling your eyes or applauding my ability to [...]
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I know that I usually do, but I can’t tell you a story today. I know that many of you come here for laughter/lyricism/lightness and I want you to know that I love that, that it covers me in elation, like gossamer, like the crystal coating on Vienna almonds. But today, no matter what or [...]
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Theme: Spice Recipe: Sri Lankan Chicken and Cashew Curry Cookbook: Curry in a Hurry From around the age of ten to eighteen, I played clarinet. For the majority of these years, I was a member of a clarinet ensemble that would rehearse every second Friday night. Over the course of those almost-eight years, I transitioned [...]
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Theme: Cup Recipe: Black Forest Cupcakes Cookbook: High Tea at The Victoria Room When I was younger, my paternal grandmother would bake cupcakes for my family as a treat. These cupcakes came with a fluffy vanilla base and three different types of icing: white, pink, and chocolate (not “brown”, because that sounded icky to my [...]
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Theme: Blue Recipe: Very Blueberry Smoothie Cookbook: Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen You know what I am? (Apart from slightly sick with a cold, slightly distracted by a longing for things I can’t quite describe, and slightly full from a surplus of pumpkin chips…) I am slightly behind on The Cookbook Challenge. Or, to be entirely [...]
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There are certain things in life that you don’t want to be crunchy. Your teddy bear, for example, or your socks. Crunchy flowers are also bad, because crunchiness in flowers usually means that the petals are covered in a Canberran frost. And that, in turn, usually means that the blooms are not long for this [...]
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Theme: Eggs Recipe: Coffee Meringue Twists (or Bites) Book: The Women’s Weekly Healthy Desserts Mini Cookbook This fortnight’s theme for The Cookbook Challenge was a tricky one for me. Eggs. You see, I never have eggs on hand. When baking at home, I use ground flax and water as an egg replacement and, in the [...]
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Theme: Celebration Recipe: Caramel Walnut Slice Book: The Australian Women’s Weekly Cakes and Slices Cookbook This isn’t the post I intended to write tonight. To be more precise, this isn’t the post I intended to write last night. My aim had been to tell you about my whirlwind work trip to Sydney last week, during [...]
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For reasons that will become clear as you read the following post, I spent tonight going through photos from the American component of my travels last year. I thought it would be easy. It wasn’t. My throat and chest tightened with longing and then, as I came across a certain group of photos, I started [...]
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