Just a quick note to say I’ve updated all my recipe indexes, and added a new page for my Low-Fructose recipes. I say this with some trepidation, as I have been unable to get a straight answer on which vegetables,…
Author: Catherine
Recipe: Somewhat Sicilian Fennel and Orange Salad
Another quickie, but I made this last night and it was lovely, and I thought it was worth sharing. It’s a very refreshing salad, good for cutting through a rich meal (in this case, Rosa Mitchell’s insanely good pasta al…
Recipe: Strawberry, Lemon and Walnut Balls
Just a quick post today – I have a whole bunch of things in the works to write about, but I somehow wound up spending a lot of the afternoon making the aforementioned elaborate pasta bake for friends who are…
Review: Chocolate Degustation at Shocolate
I had this really irritating dream very early on Saturday morning. I dreamed that I’d gone out to lunch somewhere, and halfway through the meal, the restaurant moved me and my friend to a table with ten other people. Then,…
Return of the Farmers’ Market!

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Quick apology post
This blog has been rather quiet recently, and I’m afraid it will continue to be quiet for the next couple of weeks – I am sitting a singing exam on September 9th, so currently all those waking hours which are…
Farmer’s Market Post: What Season Is This, Anyway?

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Cake Preview
Just a short post tonight, because I have indeed baked wedding cakes with some success but also, apparently, at the price of a migraine and some serious wobbliness, so it’s an early night for me.
Showing the working out…
This is mostly notes for my own nefarious, wedding-cake-making purposes, so I’m going to put most of it under a cut. But if you enjoy reading the convoluted workings of my brain when trying to calculate food and allergy things,…
Recipe: Perfumed Blood Orange and Cardamom Cake
Tonight was our regular fortnightly dinner party with friends who live down the road, and really should have been an excellent excuse to practice wedding cakes. The trouble is, I am currently fighting a psychological battle on the subject of…