The Race to Cake

So I rush home from work and get to work on David's Picture Perfect Cake. I have a small window of opportunity to get this little baby iced and decorated before I decorate myself and collect the [Read More]

Back to Back

It's an early but exciting start to Thursday. I'm making my comeback at the gym. I haven't enjoyed my fortnight bad-back induced gym exile but it's true what they say, absence does make the heart grow [Read More]

Another Birthday Bake

It's the morning after the night before and I'm feeling a tad fragile. I can't stomach gourment gorging and imbibing fine wines on school nights like I used to. Getting older sucks! I'm also [Read More]

Birthday Boy

I wake up at 4.30 AM! I wasn't joking when I said I was extremely excited about David's birthday. David has always been absolutely fabulous, but now he's forty too! Hooray! It's a big birthday which [Read More]

Bring on the Birthdays!

I squeeze in a sneaky run after work. I have to go hard and go fast because I have David's cake to decorate. The Chocolate Fudge Cake looks good enough to eat, but I resist the urge and get down and [Read More]

Chicken Pasanda

Serves 4 Pasanda was the first curry I ever tried and just the name of it brings back many happy memories! I  haven’t seen it on a restaurant menu for ages, so when I found this recipe, I couldn’t [Read More]

Christmas in July

I'm so excited! It's July 1. This can only mean one thing... Christmas in July! It's Winter here in the Southern Hemisphere; it feels like Christmas, it looks like Christmas and now it is Christmas! [Read More]

The Perfect Print!

News hot off the press! Literally! David, (he who is the technical brains behind the blog) has fixed it so that, should you find any recipe or rambling worth printing, you can do so in one simple [Read More]