Do you remember these lemon and pistachio shortbread crescents? I wasn't happy with their texture and wanted to try another recipe. I adapted this recipe (again). I divided the mixture in two and to one half I added a combination...
Who can resist roast potatoes? I know I can't. My favourite roasting potato at the moment is the kipfler, improved by the addition of some rosemary salt. Rosemary salt is easy to make. It's just a handful of rock salt, a few sprigs of rosemary,...
I've been dying to try out the little tartlet dishes I bought in Paris. I found this recipe ages ago on Nordljus's blog and bookmarked it. A few weeks ago whilst flipping through an old Vogue Entertaining magazine I found the original Claudia Fleming...
Do you remember me saying a few weeks ago, how I'd given up buying cookbooks? Well I bought this book for my friend Geoff's birthday last year and was kind of sad about giving it away, because I liked the look of the recipes. The Bourke Street Bakery...
I'm watching Poh's Kitchen which tonight features Bill Granger. We love Bill because his recipes are simple and pretty much always work. This wasn't what I'd planned to post but I fell asleep last night whilst exporting the images and they're not ready...
I found this Donna Hay recipe a few weeks ago and was dying to try it out, especially the peanut butter icing. Off to the shops I went in search of peanut butter. I decided to make cupcakes and as I can't help myself, used Greek yoghurt instead...
Do you remember my shelf/life shopshoot? As I arrived quite early, I spent about 20 minutes roaming around the local streets. My sister used to live in Surry Hills and as she didn't own a car, we used to walk everywhere. The back streets of Surry...
I've been using a Martha Stewart recipe for lemon almond tart for years but thought it was time to try another lemon tart recipe. I used my own almond shortcrust pastry recipe but tried out a new filling. The recipe involved warming the lemon mixture...
A few months ago I visited shelf/life in Reservoir Street Surry Hills. I was looking to buy some fog linen work goodies and shelf/life was the stockist closest to my home. Jess, the owner was in the shop, and we had a long chat about work, design...
Do you remember me telling you I was going to try making a blonde version of Nonna's cookies? Well here they are, Nonna's lemon and pistachio cookies. Despite using the same quantities and weighing all the ingredient to the gram, the texture...