I haven’t used the oven in over three months since our kitchen-paint-job-gone-wrong resulted in polyurethane spray entering its interior via the vents in the door. Given that polyurethane produces toxic gases when heated, we have diligently left the oven well alone all this time. The… Read More
A quick glance at my recipe list easily gives the impression that I am a vegetarian, but then people sometimes take a quick glance at me and assume I’m vegetarian (am I that pale?). I do cook a lot of vegetarian food, but I also… Read More
This year Colin and I celebrated our first Christmas in Brisbane. We spent the afternoon and evening with friends, but the morning was ours alone. It was a lovely restful day, quite unlike our usual Christmases back in NZ, which generally involved travelling for hours… Read More
This post has been a long time coming. I first made peanut cookies in mid-September after obtaining a scanned copy of the recipe from Mum. In the weeks prior I had experienced a frustrating spate of cooking failures; recipes which had been intended for this… Read More
Chez Moi 