Month: February 2012

  • Spring. Almost

    It’s almost Spring! And with that time for a bit of a clean sweep. And some new growth. With a few food projects under way this year and my growing realisation that I want to do more professional photography, I really need a proper food photography blog. And a proper photography portfolio site. So this…

  • Raspberry and walnut tart

    This is one of the many cakes I bake using this simple base – and I cook them as tarts, in a shallow tart tin. The raspberry is lovely and tart and the cacao nibs (coarsely ground cocoa beans) are a raw, natural version of chocolate chips which are brilliantly crunchy and not at all…

  • Hey! Over here…

    Raspberry and walnut tart Hello, I am moving my hosting from the unreliable one to the good one, so Anknel and Burblets might disappear in a couple of days for an hour or two. Should all be ok – but just in case! Also, I am very busy on Lovely Food – feel free to…

  • Sweet orange marmalade

    Nobody else in the house eats marmalade but that won’t stop me. A few years back I made grapefruit marmalade as well as a mandarin marmalade using fruit from a neighbour’s trees in Mt Albert. This year I bought oranges from Riverford but I still used the same good old New Zealand recipe that my…

  • Cardamom, and banana tart

    I know it’s not the orange blossom and cardamom cake – but there were too many bananas and I needed to bake this one while I was off work this week. Actually I made two and they’re all but gone. There’s a bit of a pattern to my cake recipe. I only really have one…