I commented the other day that instead of putting in so many hours at work I would love to be baking as I use baking as a method of relaxing.
Then yesterday I was reading Orangette, the gorgeous food Blog by Molly and empathising with her about the multitude of banana bread recipes and how so [...]

My grandfather was a Soldier Settler at Dunkeld in Western Victoria. Predominantly he grazed sheep and I have fond memories of a young girl visiting the farm during shearing, mulesing, dipping and other times. I remember riding on the back of a tractor feeding out hay as a 5 or 6 year old and hand [...]

My name is Fiona and I am a cookbook-aholic.

Now there is no order to these books at the moment and they are two deep on the bottom shelf and stacked up on the top. Oh and I have another case that has a shelf of Womens Weekly cookbooks and cooking magazines. And there are 4 [...]

I love baking. Always have. Whilst I love cooking and have gained enough confidence to cook from my head with some great results, baking is very structured and ordered and that is what I like.
But… I also like easy recipes! We had a morning tea at work yesterday for Jeans for Genes day. I baked [...]

This is floating in my head, so it might as well be floating in yours as you read on…

My family has always had weird names for some foods. Growing up, ice-cream was always ‘ICDC’ and tomato sauce the very Australian ‘Dead ‘Orse.’ My kids have developed their own food-isms- bean sprouts are known as ‘has [...]

I picked up this meme from Stilgherrian and Kate Curruthers. Looks like all the cool kids are doing it so of course I have to add!

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 161.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don’t search around and look for the coolest [...]

I love cooking with yeast. Since Priscilla arrived it is easier as her dough hook makes it a breeze. But it still amazes me! You can’t get fresh yeast in Cairns. Well not bakers yeast anyway. I suspect we would have the climate to do a proper sour dough starter and I will try that [...]

It was my boss’s birthday today. It is actually a little strange thinking she is only 5 months older than me yet has been with the company since she was 17.
For her birthday I told her I would bake a cake. Now I adore cooking. I find it the ultimate form of relaxation, well apart [...]