Next up in my 2014 Holiday Gift Guide series… ideas for the brunch-addict in your life. My obsession with brunch is well documented so it's only fitting that my second gift guide was assembled with a singular focus on the best meal of the day. Anything (ok everything) on this list would make me quite happy on Christmas morning but it's the waffle maker, followed by the Tea-iere, that I'm really coveting. Of course those plates would make fine props... 1 Stoneware 12-Cup Egg Tray by Rachael … [Read more...]
In My Kitchen: August 2014
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 — in loosely interpreted categories and no particular order. As always I’m linking up with Celia for IMK and this month I'm totally phoning it in from gorgeous Sedona, Arizona before hopping on a plane to Philly. One day I'll post a recipe again... ahem. ------ Props & Books & Equipment oh my Hello lover. After looking and comparing and plotting … [Read more...]
Baked Coffee Doughnuts
I'm no stranger to waking up to the intoxicating smell of coffee. Growing up, the coffee pot was burbling away each morning before anyone was even out of bed, and both my parents drank it by the bucket. I however, other than a brief dalliance in collage involving late-night study-driven coffee consumption tarted up with copious amounts of milk and sugar, never joined club-coffee. Of course there has always been an affinity for coffee ice cream and tiramisu (seeing a trend?) -- but when … [Read more...]
Drink Coffee Do Good on Friday 7 June with CafeSmart
We hear it all the time, "you can make a difference in someone's life for less than the cost of a cup of coffee..." Well thanks to CafeSmart, an annual initiative from charity StreetSmart, on Friday 7 June 2013 coffee won’t just kick-start your day, it could change someone's life. Really. "How will my cappuccino/macchiato/latte/tall black/short black/flat white/mocha caramel whoozywhatsitcino help others?", I hear you ask. $1 from every coffee sold in participating CafeSmart cafes … [Read more...]
Vegan Chocolate Fudge, PLUS 11 flavour twists
Chocolate always wins. It really isn't fair to everything else - the noodle soups, the sides, the dips, the salads - always take second at best. Poor fried rice, you can come to my house any day. Ok, so what am I on about? You see, I have an enormous backlog of posts... While I do enjoy the picture editing and post writing, I'd rather create and cook and photograph over anything else, and as I'm at home during the day most of my meals get styled and propped before being eaten. So over the … [Read more...]
Chocolate Caramel Tart – slightly drunken, utterly decadent, perfection
It is rare that I make things this brilliantly evil, I'm usually much more restrained, but when one is going to a cheese and wine party one has no other option than to pull out all the stops. This is not a Chocolate Tart with Caramel, it is not a Caramel Tart topped with Chocolate, it is what happens when Chocolate and Caramel meet at a party one night, get a bit tipsy and have a love child. Meet Chocolate Caramel. Drunken Chocolate Carmel to be exact. Now if you've been around here … [Read more...]
Chocolate Cake Karma
Happy Mother’s Day to mom, mum and all the other wonderful mothers out there! I hope you get a day to do whatever you need to do for yourself. Now on to the real reason we are all here...cake! I'm sharing this recipe with you based on the reaction my girlfriend had when I sent it to her recently...K and I lived together for a semester in college after I got back from my study abroad in Sydney. Other than being in the same organization, we hadn’t really hung out much until then… it ended … [Read more...]
