by Brooke Falvey
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{Recipe} Healthy chocolate crackles
When 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, […]
More{Recipe} Skinny Fat-Elvis Truffles
After what seems like weeks of almost endless eating and drinking (and not much exercise), I have decided to start the new year fresh and cut back on sugary treats and carbs in favour of salads and, well, something that will make me forget how much I love sugar. So it was with great delight […]
More{Recipe} m&m cake
On 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 […]
More{Recipe} Fudgy chocolate caramel biscuits
Last 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 […]
MoreOne year
They say the first year of anything—marriage, parenthood, moving home after living abroad—is said to be the hardest. I don’t know who ‘they’ are, but I assume their theory has something to do with all those long, sleepless nights. And while I’ve not yet dipped my toe into the grown-up world of marriage or babies, […]
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