Month: February 2012
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…