Anknel and Burblets

dreams come out my ears and go round my head and i read them.

  • Birthday lunch at Moro

    Yesterday was my birthday and we took the day off to spend a while at Moro for lunch. I only recently discovered the whole Moro thing when I bought myself Casa Moro for Christmas. I spent several days poring through the recipes. Letting my brother hold the book on boxing day he read it for…

  • A nice rainy day and a visit to Violet Cakes

    Outtake – final Violet Cakes photos at Lovely Food Ah, I love waking up at 6.30am on a Sunday and coming downstairs with Astrid. Even better this morning it was raining, which meant we didn’t have to go out walking – we could all stay inside and I could secretly get some work done editing photos. Lots…

  • Banana and cardamom spelt flour tart

    There’s a bit of a pattern to my cake recipe. I only really have one recipe – but I change the flours, nuts, fruit and essences so I call it “One cake, 100 ways”. Over the years I’ve tried using normal flour, buckwheat, brown and white spelt. My favourite is white spelt. I now also…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The adventures of the boy cats

    Top: Rufus; Bottom: Oscar (and we need to clean the windows eek) Rufus and Oscar have settled into London life. Again. They’ve both carved out their neighbourhood territories and places they go to sleep in the sun. There’s a great big enormous cat that lives somewhere near. It’s the size of a very small cow.…