A very easy recipe

This recipe is from one of my old cookbooks.  We haven’t been eating cakes recently but we were having visitors so I thought I ought to make a cake for having with our cups of tea! The recipe is from The Australian Womens’s Weekly – Best recipes from the Weekly Dutch Ginger Cake 1 3/4…

It’s that time of year again!

Our cumquat tree is covered in cumquats so it is time once again to make cumquat marmalade.  This is one kilo of cumquats and is just the first lot of ripe fruit.  The tree still has lots of fruit on it so no doubt I will be making a few more batches. You can find…

Now that is a decent sized jar!

Our olive tree has now seriously started to produce fruit.  I have posted in previous years how we only had a few olives as it was a  very young tree and so we only ever had small jars of olives.  This year we had a good crop and have been able to preserve a large…

Chocolates or health balls, take your pick.

I’m not too sure what to call these as they could be chocolates or they could be health balls.  I think it will depend on my needs when I eat one! I found the recipe on the internet but I only took a screen shot so I don’t have the source but the recipe is…

Megsy memories

It is almost a year since my younger sister died.  There are so many times that I think of her and yesterday when I made this apple cake my thoughts were drawn to her again.  I miss her lots.

Trying to make baguettes

I recently borrowed some books from the library and two of those were about bread making. Both were by the same baker.  One book was called Dough and the other Crust. I have a bread making machine but I wanted to try my hand at making bread without the machine and the bread I wanted…