I know, I know, it’s chocolate and raspberries again. I have no imagination. But it’s such a delicious flavour combination! This cake was made on the rather flimsy excuse of the recent Rugby World Cup. We had a tipping competition,…
Category: dairy-free
Recipe: Chocolate, Apricot and Rosemary Cupcakes
I woke up on Sunday morning with this recipe in my head – not, I am glad to say, being dictated by my subconscious in a dream, but more a natural progression of the fact that I hadn’t slept well…
Recipe: Apricot and Orange Sweetmeats
We’re doing Pericles tomorrow, which means I am cooking like a maniac to prepare a middle-eastern themed feast, and my head is full of lists of things to make, things to decorate, things that need to be set out, things…
Recipe: Oma’s Gingerbread
No, I haven’t abandoned this blog! It just turns out that if you take one choir concert, two grant applications and a bunch of grant outcomes, stir in a couple of work events and add an upcoming Shakespeare Feast, you…
Recipe: Vegan Dream Cookies
My alarm went off on Sunday morning just as I was in the middle of dictating a recipe for vegan choc-chip cookies to my Italian cousin Rosangela, whom I haven’t seen for nearly 30 years, and who, moreover, lives in…
Recipe: Balsamic Strawberry Parfait
Strawberries again. What can I say? They are still deliciously cheap. This is one of my favourite desserts. I like to pretend its healthy, but that’s basically a lie. I also don’t measure anything anymore, so this is a bit…
Recipe: Strawberry and Almond Cupcakes with Crystallised Rose Petals
Strawberries are incredibly cheap at the moment – cheaper than I’ve seen them in several years, in fact. And they are also very good, even the supermarket ones. I have no idea why this is, but that isn’t stopping me…
Recipe: Bread Pudding
This recipe comes from my Austrian grandmother, and is basically a really delicious way to use up stale bread. As a child, this was one of my favourite foods – its spicy stodginess reminded me of Christmas pudding, and it…
Recipe: Almond and Berry Cake for a Big Birthday
We currently have the two radiation guys living on our floor at work, and one of them turned 60 on the weekend. My Divisions are very cake-oriented and we felt it would be terrible – terrible! – if someone living…
Recipe: Apple and Berry Crumble
This is my favourite weeknight dessert. It’s hot and fruity and tastes healthy and the leftovers are lovely for breakfast. And it makes heaps, which means you have breakfast for *days* afterwards. It’s not really a standard crumble recipe –…