Tag: recipes
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Panela and Ube
No, they’re not characters from a children’s story– although I am Slightly obsessed with Punch the Monkey this week. There’s something about him that is both sweet and sad, vulnerable and hopeful, banal and inspiring. He’s uniquely human, but also a monkey. It’s all very cute and very 2020s internet meme. Anyway, Panela and Ube…
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Back to school, back to reality….
Summer holidays are officially over- for some at least! Last week, The Child started Year 4. Year 4 seems like a big deal- I mean it didn’t at first but now it suddenly does. It feels like the last year of being a kid, and the first step towards becoming a tween. He’s no longer…
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Hello 2026!
We’re 15 days into 2026 and I really don’t know what to say about it. I had a fabulous end to 2025- The Mom/Nana was over from the US and we had a fabulous fabulous fabulous trip to Tasmania, a place I highly recommend and can’t wait to go back to! Thomas had a great…
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Happy Father’s Day!
Happy Aussie Father’s Day to all the Dads out there. It’s been an action packed Father’s Day but also quite a normal Sunday. It’s funny, the longer you spend as a parent, the less significant Mother’s Day and Father’s Day become. It was still gorgeous to see how excited Thomas was to give his Dad…
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The Cookies that started it all…and I make friends with AI
So this week, we go back to the beginning- Von Stapele Cookies aka The Amsterdam Cookies aka THE cookies that started the baking journey. It’s been almost a year (I think) that I’ve been baking cookies every week. And it’s been a crazy year. One major down (and some not so major ones) and…
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Highs and Lows
I’ll start with the bad news. I had my first (or maybe second) cookie fail this week. I tried to re-make the Cornflake-Marshmallow-Chocolate Chip cookies from a few weeks ago and they did not turn out- at all. They were too crunchy, too dry, too ick. Wrong wrong wrong. I should have known better. I…
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Back into it!
I can’t believe it’s February already- January flew by in a flurry of fun- and a lot of tennis! The United Cup in Sydney, AO in Melbourne, and the quickest trip to the US ever (that also included two tennis lessons). It was the best way to cap off my months of Funemployment. And unbelievably-…
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Dirty Chai and Macarons.
Happy December! I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of the year. Christmas carols are playing, the tree is decorated, the turkey and ham are ordered and I’ve been reading Christmas Cookie recipes. My experience with Christmas cookies has been mixed at best. There was one time when I baked them as a child- but…
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Happy Thanksgivng Y’all
It shouldn’t be a suprise that Thanksgiving is one of my all time favourite holidays. Food, family, friends, and football. What else could you ask for? Other than family, Thanksgiving is one of my favourite things about America. So this time of year, I’m always a bit sad to be here and not there. And…
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Just normal Chocolate Chip.
Last week I made Chocolate Chip Cookies. You know the ones. The boring, old favorites that have the recipe on the back of the bag of chocolate chips. Tollhouse chocolate chips if you grew up in the US, no idea what recipe is on the back of the Australian chocolate chip packages because I didn’t…
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