Growing up, we had a red tinsel Christmas tree. It didn't matter what decorations you put on it’s sparse branches, you could not make it look any good. As the saying goes, you cannot make a silk ...
Baking
fresh pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting
I don’t remember the first time I met Dodger, but I’ll always remember his instrumental role in my retirement from turf harvesting.I’d stepped off the harvester to stretch my back which was suffering ...
blender banana bread
If I had a dollar for every banana that went brown in my fruit bowl, I’d have enough money to travel back in time and help Tracey Chapman out of whatever financial difficulty she was facing when she ...
crunchy choc honeycomb biscuits
It’s a bit of a significant day in Casa de Cooker. Today the Little Sister is 2 years, 11 months and 3 weeks; the exact age the Big Sister was when she became the Big Sister. The day started with ...
Girls just wanna have Passionfruit and Lime Brûlée
An SMS in the afternoon light to a mate who I knew would understand my plight. Oh Susan dear, you were once a stay at home Mum remember girls just wanna have fun adult conversation? The phone rang ...
fig and yoghurt cake + for figs sake!
There's some bad business going on in the blogosphere at the moment. A business has bought up similar domain names to popular blogs and has rerouted the traffic to their own site. I'm outraged on ...