For the love of food
I love olives and I love chocolate but I’ve never loved the two together in one mouthful. Stay with me I’m going somewhere good, somewhere wonderful in fact because combined in baked-good deliciousness, these two are an unlikely but perfect pair. The matchmaker extraordinaire, Mr pine nut, brings them together in crunchy harmony. If you [...]
Chewy, no-bake biscuits crusted with coconut and topped with a smooth, rich, chocolate ganache finished with a dusting of desiccated coconut. Sounds mouth-watering doesn’t it? It sounds like something you could only have one of because they must be seriously naughty. It would appear that if you have a lack of self control when it [...]
Today is a very special day for two, very special reasons. Today is The Twins’ Birthday! They’re celebrating in serious style with a pink party tomorrow and my goodness you should see the preparations. I was called in to help with baking yesterday and would you believe, between three of us (adults I mean – [...]
Warm molten chocolate oozes from the center as you glide your spoon through the chocolate cake-like layer. Keep that image in your mind while you read this post ok? If you had to think of your go-to dessert for a serious indulgence what would it be? For me, I can’t go past chocolate fondant or runny [...]
I should have written this yesterday. If I had written it yesterday I could have told you that I was sitting at the table at mum and dad’s place looking out at the ocean, feeling the warmth of the sun on my face. Writing it today I can still tell you that I’m sitting at [...]
You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all about. Repeat – the lime in the coconut and shake it all about. Sorry but it’s stuck in my head and it only seems fair that it be stuck in your head too (you’re welcome!). Why all the coconut song and dance? Well I’ve [...]
I was a kid who liked to read the cereal boxes. For me it wasn’t all that interesting considering I really only ate Special K and usually it was the same old story about the Special K challenge but even still, I read it every morning. I could probably have recited it along with the [...]
I know I know, another chocolate cake but before you close the page close your eyes. Actually open your eyes and read this then close your eyes and imagine this. You pick up your fork and raise it to touch the top of the glossy icing. As you press gently you meet no resistance from [...]
It was a tough decision trying to pick a recipe for such a momentous occasion as my grandma’s 95th Birthday. She is the woman from whom I got my sweet tooth (I think) and a lover of all things baked, chocolatey and cake-like. I regularly take her baked goodies so this had to be something extra special. [...]
It has been a very interesting weekend up here in Queensland. Will and I headed up the beach on Friday night for the long weekend. We knew the weather wouldn’t be good but we had no idea what we were in for. I’ve never seen winds and rain like it. The noise, entirely made by [...]
In about November last year I got a bit of a hot weather cold/chest infection thing and deemed it unsafe to go to the gym. I’ll say that I was being considerate to fellow gym members and not wanting to spread the germs (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it). Then December rolled around [...]
I wouldn’t even attempt to guess how many baked recipes I’ve tried in the last two years of blogging but it would most probably be a couple of hundred. Sponge cake on the other hand, is a recipe that hasn’t featured much. I think the only one actually to be created in my kitchen was [...]
I am Claire & I love food. Here you'll find my favourite recipes, tips, tricks, restaurants & plates full of frivolity with the odd crafty post. New inspiration posted daily.
