Sponge blob square pan
[blipit id="117224"] QuickTime video We started out with the best intentions: whip up a layered sponge cake to celebrate our friend Paul’s 30th birthday. He’s back in Australia, we’re here in Canada,...
View ArticleA chicken crashes and burns
We saw a moose! Two or three, in fact, right here in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia. One with a great set of antlers that any hunter would have been delighted to bag. Luckily they’re...
View ArticleTandoori chicken on a barbecue
All right you purists. I know what you’re going to say. “You can’t cook tandoori without a tandoor!” Yes, well, who has a huge earthenware oven in their kitchen, I ask you? The closest most of can get...
View ArticleRice pudding with pineapple confusion
My mum would often make rice pudding when I was a kid. Though I loved the pudding, I would scrape off the skin with my spoon and plop it on mum’s plate, who made an ostentatious show of eating it...
View ArticleLoaf to admit failure
Windows video mp4 video You can’t beat waking up to the smell of fresh-baked bread. But how to get it without the rising, the knocking down, the second rise, and then the EARLY rise on your own part...
View ArticlePad thai with two tries
Windows video (small) mp4 video (small) We reckon you can’t love Thai food without loving pad thai – the country’s national dish. Your average Thai cook can probably whip this up with a few swishes of...
View ArticlePavlova recipe from the end of the oeuf
* Go to the Pavlova recipe We’ve moved back to Australia and thought the first effort in our dowdy but spacious new kitchen should be pavlova. This is an Australian, New Zealand and, oddly, Norwegian...
View ArticleLet’s get ready to rum baba!
Rum baba, aka baba au rhum, is a sticky-sweet dessert made from a yeast-based cake soaked in, you guessed it, rum – after first being soused in a simple sugar syrup. * Jump to the Rum baba recipe We...
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