raspberry coconut cupcakes
Posted: June 12, 2013 Filed under: cake, cupcakes, fruit, lemons, raspberries | Tags: babies, cake, coconut, cupcakes, lemon, pregnant, raspberries 1 Comment »
I feel like everyone is pregnant these days.
I’m not saying that this is a bad thing. I’m just saying that there seem to be a lot of little babies and baby bumps around the place. Facebook, Instagram, twitter – social media is going nuts with the baby photos and pregnancy updates.
Maybe it’s just that I had one friend who was pregnant, and then I started noticing every other pregnant person in my stratosphere. Maybe it’s that I’m at an age where all my friends are pregnant. (Not really. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that I’m only twenty-one, and that while this age is fine for some people to be getting married and having babies, it is far from the norm and also, I’m fine the way I am.) Or, maybe it’s that with the social media saturation the culture we live in, everything is everywhere and I am just noticing pregnant people and babies. Read the rest of this entry »
chocolate fudge cupcakes with salted caramel buttercream
Posted: June 8, 2013 Filed under: cake, cupcakes | Tags: birthday, cake, celebration, chocolate, cupcakes, new recipes, parties, roses Leave a comment »
Clearly, I have a problem.
No, I’m not talking about my addiction to Doctor Who t-shirts or my extreme nitpickiness when it comes to the care of books. I’m not even talking about my complete inability to ignore the inappropriate possessive apostrophe in “it’s”. People, get it right: if it is a contraction of “it is”, then it needs an apostrophe. If it is not a contraction of “it is” then it does not need an apostrophe. Read the rest of this entry »
funfetti cake
Posted: June 1, 2013 Filed under: cake, cupcakes | Tags: birthday, cake, funfetti, professional cake tester, sprinkles, study, vanilla Leave a comment »
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a professional cake taster. Apart from the obvious deficiencies in this plan – cake isn’t nutritionally complete, you may get large and unhealthy – I think it would be a pretty decent way of life. Read the rest of this entry »
coconut bread
Posted: April 22, 2013 Filed under: bread, breakfast, cake | Tags: 42, bread, brown butter, coconut, douglas adams, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, neck, pyjamas, ridiculous, sweet, tea, towels Leave a comment »
You’ve got to know where your towel is.
Towels are important, in life.
“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”
From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
The most ridiculous thing happened to me last week, which is why I now need a towel around my neck at all times. My alarm went off at 6.30 am (yes, it’s a ridiculous hour of the morning. I’m experimenting with running. It was going well, until) I went to turn it off and somehow injured my neck. Read the rest of this entry »
hazelnut pretzel brownies
Posted: December 23, 2012 Filed under: cake, chocolate, christmas, cookies | Tags: 24 days of cookies, brownies, chocolate, christmas, cookies, pretzels, summer 1 Comment »
Christmas, in Australia, is about the heat. It’s currently wavering around 40°C today, which is epically ridiculous, especially when you have to work in a kitchen. Yuck.
However, I love a summer Christmas. A long summer holiday with presents, time to read all those books you received from your family. What could be better? It’s true that a traditional roasted dinner can be a bit much, but a summer Christmas is also a great excuse to get expensive seafood and fresh summer fruit, all in the name of celebration. I have never known a white Christmas, although I would love to someday. For now I will enjoy bare feet and air conditioning. Read the rest of this entry »
pumpkin cake cookies with black and white icing
Posted: December 11, 2012 Filed under: cake, cookies | Tags: 23 days of cookies, 24 days of cookies, black and white cookies, cake, christmas, cookies, pumpkin 1 Comment »
Christmas is about the birth of Christ.
When the Messiah was born, the first people who found out were the shepherds in the field. The lowly shepherds, who were looked down upon in regular society, were the first to find out that their people were to be saved and not only that, that they would save the entire cosmos. The Israelites, that small, proud nation on a small spit of land at the edge of the country wouldbe the saving grace of the whole universe. Read the rest of this entry »
roasted strawberry buttermilk cake
Posted: November 21, 2012 Filed under: cake, fruit, strawberries | Tags: barbecue, buttermilk, city2sea, dessert, picnic, strawberries, summer, sweat 2 Comments »
It’s summertime, y’all!
No, I’m not from the South (of the USA) but it is practically summer, although not technically so for a few weeks. (Like, say, two. Eek!)
But the sun is shining, the plants are growing, the sweat is flowing and the strawberries are coming out. Yes, I said sweat. I’m not going to lie, I’m a lady but I still have bodily functions. That kinda overreact when you go running in the sun. Especially if you go for 14 kilometres. Read the rest of this entry »
lemon cranberry scones
Posted: November 1, 2012 Filed under: bread, breakfast, cake | Tags: cranberries, lemons, meyer lemons, nanowrimo, tea party 1 Comment »
I decided not to do NaNoWriMo this year.
It makes me a little sad, because I really really really enjoyed the whole process last year of discovering a whole book within me and trying, teeth gritted, white-knuckled, to extricate it and put it on paper. It’s still in unfinished, unedited, partially untyped form. Read the rest of this entry »
buttermilk scones
Posted: October 30, 2012 Filed under: bread, cake, musings | Tags: buttermilk, home, moving, party, scones, tea, tea party Leave a comment »
I have been moving around a lot lately, I think I’ve mentioned it before. I counted recently and if you count all the times I’ve moved in the last three years, I’ve moved twelve times in the last three years.
Twelve.
Twelve is a lot of times. Twelve moves is twenty four cars packed forty eight times. Twelve moves is twelve times I’ve forgotten little pieces of my life, bits of me scattered all over eastern Victoria.
Twelve moves is twelve times I’ve had to say goodbye. Read the rest of this entry »
poppy seed lemon cake
Posted: October 17, 2012 Filed under: cake, lemons | Tags: charity, lemon cake, lemons, poppy seeds, poppyseed cake, race, running, share 2 Comments »
I have done a crazy thing.
I have signed up to voluntarily run fourteen kilometres for charity.
