Tag: chocolate

Cookbook 34: More Than One Way: Learning About Other Cultures Through Food

Back when I was in year 10 and I was very excited about being able to finally choose subjects that I was interested in learning, I chose a subject called International Food Technology.  The main reason I chose this subject was that it involved cooking every class, because I enjoyed cooking and wanted to do …

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Cookbook 25: Bake: Celebrating the time-honoured tradition of home baking

I had a busy weekend, and so thought I’d do some baking, and I was bought a wonderful bench mixer by a fantastic group of people who love me, so I couldn’t not use it because that would be rude.  I chose to cook from the Australian Women’s Weekly, Bake: Celebrating the time-honoured tradition of …

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Cookbook 22: The Complete Book of Chocolate and 200 Chocolate Recipes

On Christmas Eve, because the weekend was far too hectic to cook, I decided to make treats for Christmas.  Being a big lover of chocolate, I pulled out “The Complete Book of Chocolate and 200 Chocolate Recipes” by Christine France and Christine McFadden, and cooked from it. I really really wanted to love this book, …

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Cookbook 18: The new Muffin cookbook

It was Scott’s birthday this weekend so I asked him what he wanted cooked to celebrate his birthday.  He chose muffins, one of his favourite food groups.  I even got him to choose the recipes so he picked his favourite flavours.  All these recipes are by Family Circle, in the new Muffin cookbook.  They’re pretty …

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Cookbook 16: The New PWMU Cookbook

Ah the PWMU Cookbook revised by Lorna Connor, I can imagine that many Uniting Church families have one of these tucked away somewhere, of one of the many different editions.  Mine is the third (revised) edition, and I think we’re now up to the fifth edition.  The one thing about this book is that you …

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Cookbook 13: Brownies, Fudges & Toppings

I decided that it was time for more sweet things, and this week looked at the Family Circle mini cookbook on Brownies, Fudges & Toppings (now out of print).  The recipes are all straight forward, the instructions clear (and obviously tested) and they are so very very very tasty.

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Cookbook 5: chocolate

So this week, just to do something different, I picked up chocolate, by Australian Gourmet Traveller, for something different.  This time, as there were no meat dishes, I cooked 4 recipes, a biscuit, bread, pie, and pudding.  I remembered to take photos, and everything was incredibly good, though some were quite fiddly.  I’ll list the …

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