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Raw hazelnut brownies from Hippie Lane The Cookbook

26/6/2017

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Raw hazelnut brownies from Hippie Lane the cookbook (courtesy Murdoch Books)
"Chocolate and hazelnut: who can resist?" writes Taline Gabrielian, founder of Hippie Lane and creator of whole-food, plant-based recipes. "These easy no-bake brownies are almost too good to be true. You don’t need a whole lot of time or ingredients to get these ones happening — but you may find it hard to resist the whole slab!" ​Oh, I'm hearing you, girlfriend!


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No-bake lemon coconut slice - old fashioned favourites

4/4/2017

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No bake lemon coconut slice - Liz Posmyk Good Things
"My mojo is back," I declared with a grin, as I shimmied past Peter ostentatiously. "Well, that's good to hear," he said, adding "I didn't realise it had left you."


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Tea cake with vanilla, cinnamon and apple - perfect for grandma's visit

6/3/2017

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Tea cake with vanilla, cinnamon and apple
Daily rituals change, and the pace of life slows down by a good few notches, when dear old grandma comes for her annual week-long visit. 


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Anneka Manning on 'baking is love made edible' and BakeClass

21/9/2016

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Author and teacher Anneka Manning (from BakeClass by Anneka Manning, courtesy Murdoch Books)
Earlier this week, I was disappointed to have logged into Facebook to find that I had just missed  my friend Anneka Manning's BakeClub Kitchen live session. Her current Make Me a Baker group was in the middle of a 'Rise to the Occasion' hands-on class, and I would have loved to see the goodies that they were baking. I managed to catch the tail end of the session, and it sounded like great fun. 


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Blood orange and poppyseed cupcakes with buttercream and pistachio (GF)

23/8/2016

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Blood orange and poppyseed cupcakes with buttercream icing and pistachio by Liz Posmyk Good Things
As I tasted the blood orange icing I had prepared for my little cupcakes yesterday, I swear that the flavour was so good and so reminiscent of sherbet, I was transported right back to my childhood in the 1960s.


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Macadamia, date and chocolate torte - weekend baking

29/4/2016

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Macadamia, date and chocolate torte - weekend baking
It's almost the weekend, when many cooks who work full time during the week turn their thoughts to baking. Even though I have retired, I can still remember when Saturdays and Sundays were reserved for special 'me-time' in the kitchen. Is it like that at your place too?


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Angel food cake with strawberries and cream

26/1/2016

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Angel food cake with strawberries and cream by Liz Posmyk, Good Things
Would you believe me if I told you that I have been fantasising about Angel Food cake since first tasting it in the 1990s? This, my friends, is a light and airy cake that makes me gaga, in a wobbly-at-the-knees kind of way. And I don't mind admitting to you that I am completely and utterly in love with it. Peter, my chief taster, concurs.


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Strawberry almond tart

6/12/2015

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Strawberry almond tart by Liz Posmyk, Good Things
'I've baked a strawberry tart. Would you like to come over and try it?' came the message from dear friend, C, who, fortuitously, lives less than a kilometre from my home, and has also recently retired. Okay, I realise I shouldn't be using a cliché here, but my response to her was: 'Is the Pope a Catholic? That'd be lovely, I'll be right over!'


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The best carrot cake recipe a la Lizzy

23/10/2015

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The best carrot cake recipe a la Lizzy
When you are young, it's hard to imagine that someday you will be old. Before I hit 55, I used to wonder what it would feel like to be "middle-aged". Would I grow old gracefully, or would I become one of those curmudgeonly old birds like Jenny Eclair and Germaine Greer, stars of the hilarious TV series, Grumpy Old Women?

​Theodore Roosevelt once said: "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits". Being a lady of a 'certain age', all I can say to that is: 'Ha!'.



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One-bowl chocolate cake - favourite recipes

11/10/2015

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One Bowl Chocolate Cake by Liz Posmyk, Good Things
Cooking up a storm is a good thing – but I really don't like seeing stacks of dishes lined up for washing afterwards!


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