It's once again time for In My Kitchen and as per usual this is a collection of things from the past month, as seen over on Instagram… Here we go, in loosely interpreted categories and no particular order, and as always I'm linking up with Celia for IMK, The Book Shelf I don't buy too many cookbooks these days (pretty much banned if they aren't gifted or won) but could not pass up this perfect condition used copy of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day when I stumbled across it during my … [Read more...]
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Honey Wholewheat English Muffin Bread {DF, Vg}
Well kids, it seems I'm still out of words -- sort of. I can of course talk your ear off over tea or cocktails, and there are a thousand travel stories running through my head that are trying to formulate themselves into something digestible, but somehow I'm struggling to come up with any incidental tidbits that can be remotely linked to English Muffin Bread. Of course as I type that my bunny-hopping mind has just spun into the following stream of consciousness tangent ... English … [Read more...]
Rainbow Whole-Fruit Popsicles (Ice Pops)
Sitting on the concrete floor of my mother's friend's flowershop I sorted and searched through the little plastic pieces for the right colour. Pop, pop, pop the little pegs broke through black paper, twinkling as they released the light. I followed the Lite Brite patterns until I used them all up and started making up my own designs -- swirls and zig-zags and 5-year-old interpretations of trees -- from the little points of colour. And then a question, asked casually and without … [Read more...]
DIY Christmas Ornaments and a very Merry Christmas to all!
You know those things that have been on your list for years before you finally get around to them? Yep, this is one of mine. Ornaments made one day last week when I should have been doing other things but, because creative distraction gene, I did this instead. A meditative break from a mountain of work, spent rolling and pressing and smoothing and cutting. Making pretty things just because I could. These DIY ornaments are impossibly easy though, so there really is no excuse. First, … [Read more...]
6 Natural Food-based Easter Egg Dyes
It's official, this whole need-to-create-things is hereditary. Not only the creativity gene bit but the comfort found in just making stuff. I was at mum's house for a few weeks during our last trip and one day she brought out a lovely, frilly, very colourful apron, "Look! I saw this and had to get it for you. Thought it may be a bit of inspiration... you could make these!" It was a cute apron, and it did give me a few new ideas, but in the midst of packing our already busting suitcases … [Read more...]
