It was a bit last minute as we weren’t going to have a party for Lola’s 3rd birthday due to kitchen renovations taking over our house and lives at the moment. However I had mother guilt at 4 in the morning just before her birthday so I hastily invited the extended family over for cake [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cake’
Third birthday party
Posted in Celebrations, Cooking, Family Food, Food, Home cooking, Kids Food, Recipes, tagged 3 year old cake, asparagus wrapped in prosciutto, cake, cake for 3 year old, number 3 birthday cake on Friday, 8 October, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Let them eat (flourless) cake
Posted in Cooking, desserts, Food, Food with Friends, Recipes, Vegetarian, tagged almond, apple, cake, flourless cake, ginger, gluten free cake, raisins on Thursday, 8 July, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I have a lovely friend, J, who has just had her second baby (5 weeks ago) and I invited her and her little family to lunch on Sunday to have, as she put it, an adult afternoon. We (being the bad parents we are) put our two little ones in-front of the TV while we [...]
Birthday Request – death by chocolate
Posted in Celebrations, Cooking, Food, Food with Friends, Home cooking, tagged cake, chocolate, chocolate fondant puddings, Donna Hay on Thursday, 24 June, 2010 | 13 Comments »
My partner Elvin is a chocolate dessert nut. I offered to make dinner for his birthday this weekend (partly to give me a reason to make a rabbit ragu I’d been planning) and of course his order for dessert was ‘something very, very chocolately, cakey, gooey and warm’. After an extensive search through virtually all [...]
Reading Group – never mind the book, here’s the food!
Posted in Cook Books, Cooking, Food, Food with Friends, Recipes, Wine, tagged cake, lamb, Nuage Blanc, quince chutney, spinach pilav, sweet-sour lamb yahni, walnut and semolina cake on Monday, 24 May, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A ten-year anniversary is a special occasion in anybody’s book and this year our reading group is a decade old. The food we share each month is the key to our longevity, although our Melbourne member who phones in for the discussion after dinner is able to live on description alone
Best destination (for bananas)
Posted in Cooking, Cooking Utensils, Family Food, Food, Home cooking, Kids Food, Recipes, Vegetarian, tagged baking, bananas, cake, muffins on Friday, 16 April, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It may be an obvious thing to say but overripe bananas must never be thrown away! Cakes, muffins and smoothies are the best destination for this fruit even once it’s way past the stage you would eat it raw. I just peel and freeze them in a zip lock bag and use them when I’m [...]
