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- Jul 14
Napoleon cake - layers of meaning
"as each family makes it their own way, you’d be pressed to find two recipes that agree on what makes a perfect one." Deb...
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- Jul 11
Busy, busy, busy, - doing nothing?
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings." Jane Austen It's been just over a week since I wrote a post. I have been busy,...
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- Jun 19
Itty-bitty/itsy-bitsy
"itty-bitty - extremely small (see also itsy-bitsy)" - Cambridge Dictionary Remember the nursery rhyme Itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the...
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- May 2
Amuse-bouches
Amuse-bouches: "a bite-sized hors d’oeuvre sent out at the whim of the chef, to whet diners’ appetites (or “amuse the mouth”) for the...
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- Mar 30
Cake for the lumberjacks or a queen?
"baking (and eating) cake can help whatever ails you" David Lebovitz On Monday we are having the Great Easter Egg Hunt - yes still. I...
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- Mar 3
Norway - stewed mutton and cabbage or Grandiosa frozen pizza?
"There remains a clear gap between the blossoming fine dining scene and the everyday food eaten by most Norwegians and visitors to the...
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- Mar 2
Swifties
"Swifty - Australian - a deceptive trick" An alcoholic drink consumed quickly" Oxford Languages "Not a valid Scrabble word" Wordnik "A...
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- Jan 31
Flakes
"Flake: a small, thin piece of something, especially if it has come from a surface covered with a layer of something" Cambridge...
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- Dec 27, 2023
Leftover cake
"What can you make? The obvious answer is "friends by giving them cake." andycartwright/Reddit Christmas is gone, so the shops are full...
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- Nov 26, 2023
"Comfort food stepped up a bit"
"Deb is a firm believer that there are no bad cooks, just bad recipes." GoodReads You can probably tell it's a mildly uninspired day -...
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- Oct 11, 2023
Tradition and black cake
"Tradition is only about what people have or have not done. It's not about what they are capable of doing. And it's not about what they...
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- Sep 23, 2023
A nifty writer's block idea
"When, after all attempts, there is no recipe to make, I’ll write about what I find on the relevant page or pages. Heck, it may be too...
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- Sep 15, 2023
Salted caramel
"Its popularity may come from its effects on the reward systems of the human brain, resulting in 'hedonic escalation'". Wikipedia Is this...
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- Aug 22, 2023
Fiddling around with THE cake
"These cakes, which are half pudding, half cakes can never fail. If they are undercooked they make a fine dessert with cream. They are...
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- Jun 7, 2023
Lemon curd - sweet or savoury?
"The best lemon curd is the colour of the sun" Nigel Slater I made some lemon curd the other day. Not something I do on a regular basis...
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- May 1, 2023
The many paradoxes of May Day
"A time of betwixt and between, a night the veil between the worlds thinned and witches were at their most powerful." Gather Victoria...
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- Feb 27, 2023
German food - is it really that bad?
"During the last 50 years that nation has changed more than any other in Western Europe. Yet it has remained German, because everything...
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- Jan 6, 2023
Twelfth night
"On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree." It's Twelfth Night. Well the day that my family...
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- Dec 4, 2022
Battenberg cake
"its appearance is a convenient shorthand for a world rapidly vanishing in a puff of Yardley’s lavender." Felicity Cloake I'm not sure...
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- Nov 24, 2022
Cakes with a hole in the middle
"There is no denying that Bundt cakes are all about the look. But no matter if you are soaking yours in syrup, dusting with icing sugar...
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