It’s once again time for In My Kitchen and as per usual this is a collection of things from the past month -- a small snippet of those seen over on Instagram --- in loosely interpreted categories and no particular order... However this time it's a bit more not in my kitchen than usual due to short but brilliant trip RJ and I took to Japan during the last two weeks of March. Theoretically one day I'll blog the trip but in the meantime there are a few food-related bits and pieces below and … [Read more...]
Inspired by Ombre: 17 Gorgeous Ombre Desserts
Have you heard? The Sweet Adventures Blog Hop is back! I'm hosting this month and in the process of coming up with a theme I've been completely inspired by everything Ombre. I used to associate Ombre solely with towering layer cakes -- both cake and icing -- and reasonably artificial colour... And while that covers off a fair portion of what's out there it certainly isn't everything. As a bit of inspiration for SABH (and to feed my new Ombre obsession) I've created a collection of 17 … [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...]
