Tag: recipes

Streusel Apple Pie

Now that the chill of winter has set in, it’s time for comfort food to come out of hibernation. Enter the Streusel Apple Pie. Having a bag full of fresh mountain apples, I thought this pie looked just right for a lazy Monday afternoon snack. The recipe comes from winner […]

Anzac Biscuits

“It’s the monotony we revile, not – to a like degree – hard work or hard face. To look out on the same stretch of beach or the same patch of trench wall and the same terraces of hostile black and grey sandbags day after day is to be wearied.” […]

Titanic – 100 years on

In a little under an hour and half, it will be one hundred years since the Titanic sank to her dark depths. So, as it turns out, I have a keen fascination with the infamous disaster. It has apparently been building up over the years, and came out in full […]

Musk Kisses

Musk Kisses. A perfect thing to do with leftover egg whites (the yolks went into ice-cream). Simply beat them to stiff peaks and add caster sugar. I didn’t even measure it this time. I just kept adding until it tasted right. Add a few drops of musk, a touch of […]

Hot Cross Bun Ice-cream

Happy Easter. I hope your weekend was filled with the usual suspects of Easter delight. Mine was. So on this last day of the Easter weekend, not having quite had my fill of Easterness, due to perhaps an unfortunate incident involving the ruination of actual homemade hot cross buns due […]

Indian Tuesday

After the success of Saturday night’s Indian, I wanted more… And having a gorgeous lot of lamb cutlets from the amazing Vic’s Meat (if you haven’t been, you simply must go to their Market Day on Saturdays between 8am and 12pm) I decided to attack the Punjabi Masala Chop recipe […]