A few weekends ago I made a cake for my niece's 6th birthday - but this was no ordinary cake. At the core is my go-to Karma Chocolate Cake. There was Chocolate Fudge Icing and Vanilla Buttercream. There were Sugar Cookies as decoration - who uses cookies for decoration??! There were little silver candies and shimmery dusting powder. There were dreamy pink and purple swirls of icing. You see it was a disco party. And a disco party requires none other than a Disco Cake - with stars and … [Read more...]
Things and stuff and more things – ‘Stralia Day
Happy Australia Day! Or if you want to sound like a local, Happy 'Stralia Day Maate. You should probably go make Lamingtons or Pavlova or eat a meat pie to celebrate. We however had Pumpkin Pie Pancakes for brunch and watched out the window as it rained, then pretended to clear up, then rained, then pretended to clear up. Around 5 we got sick of waiting for the weather to cooperate and headed into the city to sit by the water and drink cider and watch some jazz - the rain stayed away. Then we … [Read more...]
Things and stuff and more things… SOPA
Stuff-n-Things Thursday is here a day early, and although there are a few things I had to show you this week they are on hold until next week due to SOPA. As I 'live' online these days I feel that I have a bit of a responsibility to at least tip my hat to the worldwide internet protest happening right now. Let's note up-front that I have not done near enough research on this subject, these are just a few things I've come across recently. The 'Stop Online Piracy Act' or SOPA's full … [Read more...]
Things and stuff and more things…Saturday
Things and stuff and more things Thursday is being brought to you this week by Saturday. Thursday was busy with Stove-top Mac-n-Cheese. It happens. Anyway, here's some stuff I came across 'round the interwebz traps this week... Starting as always with the food: This is a really good resource [via Sarah Wilson] on the amount of fructose in various fruits, why this is important, and what too much fructose will do to your health. I've been a bit guilty lately on relying mainly on apples in … [Read more...]
Things and stuff and more things Thursday
It's that time again. If you follow on Twitter or Tumblr or Instagram you may have seen some of this – or you may not have – so here is some stuff that caught my eye over the past week or so… Sweet Adventures Blog Hop On Monday we announced the January Adventure for #SABH... Death by Chocolate! This month's Hostess is Christina from The Hungry Australian - pop on over and read more about this month's theme. Then put aside your boycotting chocolate resolutions and join us. The … [Read more...]
Things and stuff and more things Thursday
If you follow on Twitter or Tumblr or Instagram you may have seen some of this - or you may not have - so here is some stuff that caught my eye over the past week [lets be honest, month] or so... Of course the food comes first... I can only imagine the dinner party brilliance this would inspire. The Dead Celebrity Cookbook definitely would have made my Christmas list had I known about it before today. I love sht like this! Even I didn't know some of these emergency ingredient … [Read more...]
Bits and pieces – San Diego
While in San Diego on our recent trip there were a few other things we got up to along the way ... Warning: stream of consciousness ahead, proceed with caution... A quick shout out to the sales guy at the camera store where I picked up a new lens for my camera - I had emailed to make sure they had the Nikon 35mm 1.8 AF-S and LowePro Passport Sling in stock, and when I popped in to pick them up he said 'I like your blog, I sent the link to my sister, she is always looking for good gluten … [Read more...]
