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Chocolate orange cake with orange blossom cream, A Secret Dinner dessert

What to serve for dessert for 30 people? Even the most kitchen and food challenged amongst us could guess that a souffle was out. Simple classics like tiramisu were ruled out too as they ranked too high on the boring scale. It was a no as well to creme brulee, traditional pannacotta and other sweet [...]

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Happy Birthday Mum, I made me some cake for you

This cake is divine. Bitter and sweet, crunchy and moist, fragrant, wholesome and delicious. I’ve known about Orange and Almond Cake for as long as I can know, see, it’s my mum’s favourite, and I baked it today for her birthday (Happy Birthday Mum!). But really I made it for me, see my Mum lives [...]

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Fennel Salad, bringing a little sunshine to winter

I know, I know, its cold! Us folks here in Sydney are shivering through our coldest week of the year, reading blogs from that other hemisphere extolling the joys of summer, describing watermelon salads and wonderful things to do with stonefruit.
I know, I know, it doesn’t get that cold in Sydney. I mean, there is [...]

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