One of my favourite treats to bake on the weekends at the moment is doughnuts! Bake you say? Not fry? Correct! I bought one of these doughnut baking pans a few months back at Big W (apparently they are unavailable at the moment – boo!) and it has been brilliant. If you are US based… Read More
It’s no secret that I love decorating cakes for my daughters every year for their birthdays. But this year Anna requested “a cake of a dog that stands up, wags it’s tail and also has a bone it can chew.” Ummm…that might be stretching my skills way too far! Pinterest to the rescue! I opened… Read More
I love mushrooms. In all forms! Buttons, enoki, swiss brown, field, porcini. I’ve never met a mushroom I didn’t like. (Although I admit, my love for mushrooms only came along in my adult years – you could chase me with them when I was a kid!) I love to make these Stuffed Mushrooms, sometimes for… Read More
I was chatting on the phone to my Dad last week and he said ” Now Ros. About the blog. The sewing is great but you know I’m more interested in the food. You haven’t cooked anything for ages!” (untrue – I cook every night but it gets devoured before I can photograph it. Plus… Read More
Late last year I was really struggling with my grocery budget and I was often getting to 5pm and realising that I hadn’t done anything about preparing dinner. Nothing thawed out, not much in the fridge – cue stress and then a boring slap up dinner. Which is fine sometimes, but it was happening too… Read More
It’s been a while since I’ve done a recipe. So I thought I’d share one that I make all the time. You know those stand-by recipes that always work. Tried and tested. Love it. Also known as my favourite choc chip biscuits. Yep – in Australia we call them biscuits. And what you may know… Read More
Many Australians of my generation (growing up in the 80s / early 90s) will know all about this – one of the highlights of your birthday was your Mum handing over the Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake cookbook and you got to choose which cake you wanted. Awesome! So much to choose from! My… Read More