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Every couple of years, my friend and neighbour PeteV passes me a bottle of Chivas Regal 12YO Scotch Whisky. He receives the occasional bottle as a gift, but as none of us are spirit drinkers, he’s more than happy for me to use it for cooking (my apologies to Greg and the other whisky drinkers [...]

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I love… Pete’s raspberry jam… Doctor Who… and Pam Corbin’s recipes! So when Pam the Jam’s latest cookbook finally arrived from Amazon, this had to be first recipe I tried.  After all, they’re the Doctor’s favourite snack, and you never know when he might pop by for a visit. The shortbread recipe was a doddle [...]

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As you might recall, I’ve recently purchased a copy of Nick Malgieri’s Bake!. This is first recipe I’ve made, and it’s an absolute winner! I’ve changed the dough shaping method, as I found it too sticky to roll out and cut as Nick suggests, particularly in the middle of a Sydney summer. The finished wafers [...]

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Converting Recipes to Metric

A post written somewhat selfishly for my own benefit, but hopefully some of you might find it useful as well. Conversion tables published on the internet are often variable, so I thought I’d list (for my own reference) the quantities that I use for baking.  These are the weights I’ve come up with through trial [...]

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I’ve wanted to try this recipe for ages! With the arrival of Ian and Diana’s new season garlic, I was keen to use up the last of my previous year’s frozen supplies… I followed Nigella Lawson’s recipe, substituting chicken drumsticks for the thigh pieces she’d stipulated, and our perennial leeks for the spring onions. The [...]

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