by Brooke Falvey
To steal some lyrics from Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, “It’s a new day. It’s a new year. It’s a new life. And I’m feeling good.” Now that we are almost two weeks into the new year, I am working on putting together this year’s bucket list. While I’m pretty sure I can’t take 10 overseas holidays this year, […]
MoreI love baking; I bake for my friends, my colleagues, my family and, sometimes for the lucky few, my dates—although offering up something you’ve cooked just for them sometimes feels a bit more intimate than whipping off your clothes and getting down to business can be. It’s a little like coming right out and saying, […]
More“The Parisian macaron is a snobby-but-scrumptious little treat that has lately become a vogue frontrunner in the ongoing dessert popularity contest.” —The Lost Girls— Last week, fueled by a desire to step outside my baking comfort zone (and to be a total show-off at an upcoming hen’s night), I decided to try my hand […]
MoreWhen I was a kid, there was one main thing that separated birthday parties from everyday life—chocolate crackles. According to the Australian Food History timeline, the earliest Chocolate Crackles recipe was printed in an advertisement in the Australian Women’s Weekly on 18 December 1937. It was placed by Edible Oil Industries, a subsidiary of Unilever, […]
MoreDo you know what my favourite thing about Christmas is? Aside from the gifts, the gift giving and the days off work (okay, so it’s not quite my favourite thing) … it’s being able to eat rum balls for breakfast. Today, I scoffed two rum balls after my morning walk. I figure they have Weet-Bix […]
MoreOn Saturday night I threw a mini surprise party for my friend Jane, whose birthday last month was a bit of a fizzer—one that was topped off by a lack of cake. “A party without cake is just a meeting.” —Julia Child— What made the lack of cake even sadder was the fact that Jane is the […]
MoreLast week I stumbled upon a http://www.taste.com.au recipe for Fudgy Chocolate Caramel Biscuits. As someone who always judges a recipe by its picture, I was immediately sucked in by the chunky looking cookies with their promising mix of dark chocolate, jersey caramels and toasted walnuts. So, on Monday night, I found myself walking the aisles of […]
MoreLast weekend I discovered a new, and already much loved, concept in baked goods—the ‘brookie’. What is it? … Well, it’s the ultimate mash-up of brownies and cookies. Credit for the brookie (also know as the brookster) goes to Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito of Brooklyn’s Baked who took two simple recipes—brownies and cookies—and melded […]
MoreSummer has well and truly arrived in Australia; in fact more than 10 million square kilometers of our land girt currently ablaze with bush fires. The days are long and understandably hot and, as per my Summer Manifesto pledge, I’ve been enjoying many dinners on my deck with friends. Saturday night was no different; after […]
MoreChristmas seems to have snuck up on me this year; I don’t have a tree, I’ve only purchased a couple of presents so far and I’ve just started listening to Christmas carols. To make up for lost time, I spent this morning in my mum’s kitchen covered in coconut as we whipped up batches of […]
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