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Lamingtons for Australia Day (with bonus wombats)

Happy 2013!

The Doctor and I were invited to spend Australia Day doing cool stuff with a bunch of friends, so I thought I’d make something patriotic to bring along.  To keep going with the patriotic theme (and against my better judgement), I decided to make the lamingtons from the Donna Hay Classics 2 [...]

Beechworth Bakery, Healesville

This year, the Doctor and I have been indulging in a lot of local tourism.  After he got his motorcycle licence in February, he’s been taking little road trips around our neck of the woods.  When I found out that he regularly (!!) makes it all the way up to Healesville, I demanded that [...]

Almond-Cherry Muffins with Chobani Greek Yoghurt

Heading back to more familiar stomping grounds, I decided to play around with the rest of the Chobani Greek yoghurt I was sent by baking it into some lovely muffins.  I dug some almond meal out from the back of the pantry, added some delicious cherry conserves I bought on my birthday, et voilà!

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Appelstroop (Dutch Apple Syrup)

You remember the Aussie Barbecue that I went to on Cup Eve?  Well, since we’re “the ones that do all the cooking”, we wound up taking home most of the leftovers.  One of which was an entire gallon (nearly 4 litres!) of apple juice.  I don’t drink fruit juice normally, since I prefer to spend [...]

Friday 4 - Dessert

Friday 4 is a self-imposed challenge where I post four food-related photos, and only get 4 sentences to describe each one. It gets these beautiful pictures out of my backlog, and also makes me take better ones in future!

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Banana Muffins

I never thought I’d say this, but I need a break from all these special events!  It’s time for a good old-fashioned recipe post.  And when I say old-fashioned, I actually mean one from way back from before I actually knew how to cook.

Banana “bread” (really cake) is everyone’s favourite snack, sweet, filling and [...]