These bite-sized chocolate chip cookies come under the same heading as my coconut raspberry jam slice. In other words, they’re exactly the kind of treat you might find being looked at longingly by cats through a window, or enjoyed by…
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Banana Bread, Baby
I sat down to write about banana bread, trying to think of all things banana … and had a vivid sensory memory of how much I loved a particular banana ice-cream as a kid! The creamy, creamy taste, the heady…
All Your Tinned Fruit & Peach Cobbler
Growing up the child of working class migrant parents in the ’70s, a bowl of tinned peaches with vanilla ice-cream seemed like the height of sophistication. I still love tinned peaches. The beauty with this cobbler recipe is that it’s…
Vanilla Cake with Sassy Vanilla Syrup
Why is this vanilla cake sassy? Because in a world of “flavour innovation”, “consumer-driven brand line extension”, and “multisensory taste narratives”, it’s radical to market a single flavour hero. Vanilla on vanilla? Come on. But the simplicity of this is…
