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Archive for April, 2008


Feijoa Jelly

Apr 30, 2008 Author: laura | Filed under: food, fruit

My parents and parents in law both have a few feijoa trees – which means I could easily aquire the 1.5kgs required for this jelly.

many pics and recipe after the jump… (more…)

Vanilla Plum cupcakes

Apr 29, 2008 Author: laura | Filed under: Vanilla, baking, cupcakes, cute, food

I felt like baking and jam… and trying out the much famed vanilla vanilla magnolia cupcake recipe. Of course you could use whatever jam you have on hand. I desperately wanted a cream cheese frosting but darn it there was none in the fridge (surprise surprise this stuff doesn’t last long around here), and for reasons I will not mention but are painfully related to cycling to and from work I did not feel like walking to the supermarket!! OW.

Recipe, pics after the jump. (more…)

Amazon Haul

Apr 28, 2008 Author: laura | Filed under: Uncategorized

man I love amazon.

2 new cookbooks for devouring :


I can’t wait to get home and get reading :D

Banoffee Pie

Apr 13, 2008 Author: laura | Filed under: baking, food, pie

Firstly, what the heck wordpress. When I say publish I don’t actually mean delete my entire post so I have to re-write it. But thanks. Its the thought that counts right??

This is actually a Nestle recipe I think… I have had it loose in my recipe drawer for ages and an excuse to make something came up (bible study) and i had all* of the ingredients for a change.. Recipe + 1 pic after the jump…

Actually thanks to a few random circumstances (WordPress 2.5 killing bits of my site, and the automatic upgrade killing even more I will leave you with a few pics until I post the recipe later this week.

*(Except cream, who keeps that lying around anyway)

Urrrg. That is how you will feel when you consume as much of this as I have. My advice – do not sample it at all then you won’t have to try and stop yourself from eating it by the spatula-full.

How to turn sweetened condensed milk into this after the jump…

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