Christmas Cream Puffs

I don’t make many things with choux pastry – but I had the urge to make cream puffs. I was tossing up between the cream puffs or piping out the pastry and making chocolate eclairs but the simplicity of the puffs won!
Choux pastry is really very easy to make and very versatile. The cases can [...]

Christmas Cookies for Special People

I’ll call them cookies – you can call them biscuits if you like Cookies sounds more festive somehow.
I decided I wanted to batch a huge, enormous assortment to make up into special gift packs for some very special people. The whim came quite late in the day but luckily I had plenty of [...]

Christmas Dinner Menu

My friends – most of you will know that Christmas came early for us this year. My “little” sister came over from the UK and as it had been a long, long 30 years since we had shared Christmas we decided to gather everyone at our place and have it in October!
We did what we [...]

Australian (dangerous) Wildlife!

I was looking through the photos taken while my sister was over and came across this one:

It’s a red back spider Tracey found on a pipe in the front garden. She was fascinated
There was song back in the 60’s or 70’s that went something like this:
**sweetrosie starts singing now**
“there was a redback on [...]

My Perfect Christmas Cake Recipe

This recipe is so easy and makes a large, delicious, moist Christmas cake – perfect for sharing when guests come over.

I usually soak the dried fruits in a mixture of port and brandy for a week or so but you can get away with an overnight soak. If you prefer a rich fruit cake made [...]