Tag: baking
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Pistachio & Date Nankatai: A Delicious Indo-British Biscuit Recipe
I love a good Indo-British food mash up. Nankatai are an exotic take on Scottish shortbread popularised by Parsi bakers in the wealthy trading city of Surat in Gujarat. They are yet another example of the rich multi-cultural food influences of the Indian subcontinent. Nankatai are eggless and so suitable for vegetarians which are in…
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Delicious Saffron Fruit Loaf: A Must-Try Easter Recipe
I had big plans for these Easter holidays on the baking front but a combination of , sickness, an early Easter and unseasonably hot weather meant I conked out after baking a batch of Greek Easter biscuits and this fruit loaf. I baked my Easter biscuits on Thursday night while I binged watched Chef’s Table…
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The Easiest Apple Cake Recipe You’ll Love
I’m not a huge apple cake fan, I find the whole idea of apple cake a little humdrum. When someone tells me they’ve made an apple cake my heart doesn’t automatically leap, I mean there’s a limit to how amazing an apple cake can be… right? That was what I thought until I tried this…
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Homemade White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Dough Recipe
Yesterday, we got a new fridge. Yay! There’s nothing like a brand spanking new refrigerator to lift your mood. Our old fridge was over 16 years old and was mouldy and skanky beyond belief. In my forced fridge clean out, I came across a bag of white chocolate pastels that had been languishing in the…
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Homemade Salted Caramel Chocolate Slice Recipe
There is something very homely but elegant about an old fashioned slice. When I was a kid, my mother had about half a dozen slice recipes that were family favourites. In the days when most sweets were homemade, a slice was less labour intensive than biscuits and kept better than cake. Cut into small one…
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Summer Stone Fruit Crumble for Breakfast
I’m very flighty and changeable with my choice of breakfast foods. I was brought up believing breakfast was the most important meal of the day and one should always break your fast with something decent and sustaining for the day. However, the most enduring memories I have of my childhood breakfasts are of some kind…
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Homemade Spinach and Ricotta Rolls | Crowd-Pleasing Vegetarian Finger Food
I’ve eaten a lot of cheese and spinach rolls over the years, often from country town bakeries where they are, apart from a salad and cheese sandwich, the only savory vegetarian option on the menu. The best ever spinach rolls come from the French Lettuce Bakery in Melbourne, but too often the humble spinach…
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Spicy Spelt and Olive Oil Pumpkin Bread Recipe | Breakfast Cake
Could pumpkin bread be the new banana bread? It seems to be replacing banana bread on the breakfast menus of Sydney’s best cafes. The first time I tried pumpkin bread was at my favorite Sydney cafe, West Juliett in Marrickville. I shared a slice with a friend as we on the way to the airport,…
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Paschalina koulourakia: Greek Easter biscuits
Easter is my favourite festival of the year. With our history as a British colonial outpost, Australians have long suffered through Christmas, maintaining northern hemisphere food traditions in the boiling heat of summer. The translation of a northern springtime Easter to a southern hemisphere autumn makes much more sense though. Eating loads of chocolate in…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 