Category: Food
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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…
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Important things
I’ve been up late tonight ressurecting an old project. Something that’s coming back to life. Soon. Very soon. Very exciting to be back in blog land. And back with my old friends. It’s like waking up after a long slumber. Waking back up to life and love and living and friends! And I said I’d…
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A swell party
The last time we had a birthday party for the girls was Edith’s first birthday and Astrid’s third. We skipped last year. I’m so tired. I’ve been working weekends and evenings for the last three weeks. Yesterday I baked tarts, cake and cupcakes and today we hosted the party and I’ve been creating an intricate…
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Spice. Essence. Tea.
My favourites of late. Cooking from the Moro. Essences from Steenbergs. Tea with cute packaging design from Higher Living. I’ve been in pitch hell for the past two weeks at work. People following my Instagram will have seen that. And a few other things that I’ll write about soon because they need to be written…
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All the cakes I’ve been baking
Hard to believe I’ve never baked a chocolate cake but usually all I ever bake is my 1 cake 100 ways. And this required a new method. I used the Donna Hay recipe from Modern Classics 2 although it didn’t come out at all moist which I suspect was due to my baking it for…
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A delicious weekend
This weekend I made hot chocolate each morning for myself and the girls. Saturday Edith made big tall towers of the old kitchen containers while I cleaned and filled the beautiful new Le Parfait jars to take pride of place in the pantry. In the afternoon we went to fabulous Lakeland out by Brent Cross…
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A winter kitchen
I’ve taken delivery of the amazing and beautiful Nigella Lawson mixing bowls. Amongst other things. The brilliant secret sale compares only to the Le Creuset half price sale of sky blue cookware a few years ago. I spent all weekend rearranging and clearing the kitchen. This evening I briefed Joelene our nanny on where everything…
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First ballet recital
The other Sunday we went to the girls’ first ballet recital. I can’t remember why there wasn’t one last year, although last year I went to see their final ballet performance and I went to end of year festival for Astrid. This year I did neither. I’ve taken so much time off lately while we…
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Party season
When I was young and sociable I used to often host afternoon tea parties with canapes and bubbles. I still make the same food. The party now starts an hour later at three and I definitely don’t wear fancy dresses like I used to. But I can bake better than I used to. And I…
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Late night baking
The other night after we got back home from the Zoe and Morgan jewellery preview for next Spring and Summer I discovered we had about four 2kg bags of Riverford apples in the fridge. And some pastry that needed using up. So at 10.30pm it was time to bake an apple pie. I based the…