This lovely recipe by the divine Ms Dupleix appeared in our local newspaper recently. And although I couldn’t eat it for breakfast, it made a wonderful lunch for Maude and I last week. I used cavolo nero (kale) from Maude’s garden, as well as basil, leeks, kale and nasturtium leaves from our backyard. The cooked [...]
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Tunisian Breakfast Soup
Posted in Recipes, tagged Jill Dupleix, Tunisian breakfast soup on May 16, 2012 | 62 Comments »
Caramel Cake with Browned Butter Frosting
Posted in Recipes on May 9, 2012 | 71 Comments »
Oh blessed pound cake recipe, is there no end to your possibilities? Here’s my latest attempt, a caramel cake with browned butter frosting. I baked it in a Wilton bundt pan, but given that the frosting was quite stiff and the batter reasonably sticky, it probably would have worked better in a 20cm (8″) springform [...]
How Pete Cooks
Posted in Recipes on May 5, 2012 | 68 Comments »
I am a fairly conventional cook. I usually start with a recipe, and either make it as written, or customise it to suit my own tastes. I suspect most homecooks probably work on a similar basis. That’s not the way my husband cooks. Pete doesn’t take a turn in the kitchen very often, but when [...]
Blitzing
Posted in Recipes, tagged chocolate slab cake easy, food processor cakes, harissa, homemade dips, hommus recipe, hot chocolate mix, lime and almond cake on April 27, 2012 | 52 Comments »
I’m still having a blast with my new food processor! Here’s our lime and almond cake, which Pete has now declared to be the best non-chocolate cake I’ve ever made, baked in a Wilton Queen of Hearts bundt pan. The icing was decorated with lime zest… We were off to the markets and needed something [...]
Doughnuts
Posted in Recipes, tagged donut recipe, doughnut recipe, homemade donuts, homemade doughnuts on April 23, 2012 | 88 Comments »
“I’ve got an idea”, said Pete, “let’s go buy junk food!” I know it’s a strange thing to say, but we were headed to Leichhardt Market Town and we thought it might be fun. Something different – an “end of school holidays” treat, as it were. But…we just couldn’t do it. We really tried. We [...]

