by Debs | Mar 13, 2017 | Food-related, Gardening, Lifestyle, Sweet
A carpet of passion fruit under the vine… the high winds and rain this month have given me a glut of passionfruit to use up and this is the perfect solution! It is sweet but deliciously zingy and the flavour of the passion fruit really comes through. I made enough...
by Debs | Jan 15, 2017 | Food-related, Recipe, Sweet
This time of year I find half-bags of dried fruit in the kitchen cupboard left over from various Christmas baking projects… and I am also looking forward to school lunches and hoping I can do a better job of putting healthy stuff in the box… bliss balls...
by Debs | May 18, 2016 | Food-related, Recipe, Sweet
It’s nice to have a few great cakes recipes up your sleeve, isn’t it? And although a classic Victoria sponge remains one of my favourites (with tart plum jam in the middle and a sprinkle of caster sugar on top), I am also keen to find new favourites. Inspired by...
by Debs | Feb 24, 2016 | Food-related, Recipe, Sweet
When I started seeing things made with cacao, at first I just assumed that it was a more politically correct way of spelling cocoa. However, there is more to it than that. Although they look and sound very similar, these two products are actually quite different....
by Debs | Feb 12, 2016 | Food-related, Gardening, Lifestyle, Recipe, Sweet
My husband just gently pushed half a tree-ripened apricot into my mouth… If you have never eaten tree-ripened fruit then you need to know you are seriously missing out. The taste is incomparible to what you will buy in the supermarket. The apricot tasted almost as...
by Debs | Nov 27, 2015 | Food-related, Lifestyle, Recipe, Sweet, Travel
When we were down in Christchurch the other day, it was so hot that we had the windows of the car down. Wafts of warm air kept coming into the car with a subtle floral scent… elderflowers! What a beautiful smell… the epitomy of summer. We pulled up on the side of the...
