The inevitability of change

Ah its been a time of upheaval dear reader, I am now well and truly out of my little Preston home and am living the life of a gypsy, hanging my hat where ever I can find space for it. Currently that space is in Bendigo, mercifully it is my last week of work otherwise I think I may fall over having to commute 4 hours every day. This is practise for what is to come though and I tell myself that everything can be survived if you focus on what comes after it.

Life, love and lessons in baking

Well the road to hell is paved with good intentions and my last post was full of them.I wanted to stop the whole sweet thing I really did, I had confined myself to baking sweet things for birthday cake orders only and was enjoying my liberation back into the world of savouries and sauces where all my cooking had begun. Then we had international food day at work.

Not Entirely By The Bucco

Oh its cold dear readers, colder than a witches teat. Probably shouldn’t say that, I’ll anger the pagans. You know I noticed the other day at a bookshop that there are so many books dealing wholly and solely with cupcakes that they have their own shelf, and this was a Dymocks, not a particularly cupcake centric environment. Made me think I’d gone entirely too mainstream so I vowed to make my next entry sugarless. So here I shall reveal to you the recipe I make whenever it’s cold and I’m feeling in need of bolstering. One gets bored making the same kinds of things all the time anyway, before I did the Melbourne Show generally I wouldn’t make sweet stuff, only on occasion for kids birthdays or friends or when dining guests felt the need of sugar coated comfort and requested it. I don’t want you thinking I’m all one sided or anything. I can cook stuff, really I can.

Gluten Free Tardis

There are so many good things about the recipe that I’m about to give you that I can’t even begin to start this post by focusing on only one. It’s chocolaty, which according to my brother John is the only way to do dessert. Its gluten free, which seems to be an increasing issue now days as people become more sensitive to the environment around them and it’s the most flexible recipe I think I’ve ever found, it’s the tardis of recipes.

Progress through pancakes

There are points in ones life where you have traveled far enough down a particular road to be able to make something which tangibly demonstrates progress.
For some that may be babies, a house, winning a gold medal but in the humble world of this cook it is the pancake.

The Worlds Oldest Profession

And so I have a confession, not something I’m proud of though nor am I ashamed, at some point necessity and the seductive lure of the demon dollar strikes us all. It all started around Christmas, Livvy needed a pink tea set and Jack needed lego, always with the lego and when I was asked it all seemed so innocent, how bout doin’ something Christmassy for me luv? And so I did, and then there were birthdays, and more birthdays and now I’m in and I don’t know if I’ll ever get out again.