Tortillas {recipe}
So easy to make, and so yummy to eat. I love them. Plus, if you make your own, you know they are fresh and you don’t have the wrapping (ie rubbish) to deal with afterwards. Ingredients (Makes 8) 2 cups plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 2 Tbsp olive oil 1 cup […]
Cauliflower Soup (recipe)
Please make this soup. You’ll need: 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1 onion, diced 2 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into small pieces 1 head cauliflower, cut into small pieces 2 tsp beef stock 500ml water You’ll need to: Fry up garlic and onion in butter Add potato, cauliflower, stock and water. Summer until vegetables are […]
Accidental brilliant frosting
Well! If there’s one thing better than a delicious chocolate cake, it’s chocolate frosting! Cue drool. I’m a bit ad-hoc when it comes to icing. I have a few set recipes in my head that I call on when getting ready to ice a cake – usually it’s a combination of warm water, softened butter […]
Fangorn Farm Christmas Cake
I love making Christmas cakes. This year I have been about 6-8 weeks behind schedule in my Christmas cake making. Usually I like to make them in the spring school holidays but I am going to blame the fatigue and sickness associated with my pregnancy for my Christmas cake making delay. I made two cakes […]
Wholemeal pancakes with banana
If you happen to be at Fangorn Farm on a Saturday morning when the woodstove is cranking, you will be offered pancakes for breakfast. I love pancakes. They always seem to feature in favourite moments in my memory. Corn fritters as a kid. Banana pancakes (like the ones I made today) in Bali. The amazing […]
Pizza dough
To continue my bread making frenzy, I decided to forego our temperamental breadmaker, which we usually use to mix our pizza dough, and make my own. When I was a kid, we made pizza most Saturday nights. Uncle Fran would come over and he and dad would make the dough, have a beer and then […]
Bread
Out of laziness, I made bread. I couldn’t be bothered leaving the house in the wind/rain/sleet/snow to go to the shops just for a loaf of (probably stale) bread. It was so good, I keep making it! It’s so easy and so very, very tasty! You don’t need a breadmaker (ours is broken anyway) and […]
Pancakes
It’s Saturday morning and the fire is cranking. The Esse is hot and the house is warm. So warm that I have to keep some windows open so we get a cool breeze (and the sounds of rain, birds and frogs) flowing through the house. I love autumn. There are five children in the house […]
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