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Dog Hill Kitchen

I’ve always been interested in food and cooking especially...

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Nana Tipsy’s Afghan and Cup of Tea

Mother, baker, nurse, cancer survivor, New Zealander, Australian!

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Please Do Not Feed The Animals

I am a part time GP, wife and Mum to two little boys.

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Recipe Challenge

Back to Basics: Scones (a/k/a Biscuits)

Daring Bakers
January 2012

Hi my name is Audax from Audax Artifex. Whenever I visit my sister and her family in S.E. Queensland Australia she always welcomes me with a fresh batch of my favourite baked treat which we devour gleefully with cups of tea while we chat and catch up with the events in our lives.

The treat that I'm talking about is the basic scone (also know as baking powder biscuits in North America) my sister really knows how to make them, they are wondrously light with soft sides and a lovely airy crumb – superb with jam and cream. This month I want the Daring Bakers' to share my delight and I invite you to bake a batch of scones to enjoy with friends and family.

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Food Talk

Homemade Gifts - Something for Everyone

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Compiled by Ruth of Makey-Cakey

Homemade edible Christmas gifts are always a joy to receive, and knowing that someone has taken the time and care to make you something beautiful and delicious can be a welcome antidote to the over-commercialisation of Christmas that seems to be all around us.

However my enthusiasm for them conceptually is often outweighed by my lack of forward planning – I’m sure I’m not alone! Instead of busily preserving the best of the summer’s bounty so that come Christmas, I have a stash of nicely matured chutneys and jams to give, I generally find myself in late November with nothing more to show for my plans than a bookmarks folder on my laptop full of interesting pickles and a packet or two of labels and lids bought in optimism in August that this year would be different.

Product Reviews

Let's GarLic It!! And a GIVEAWAY!!

This product was tested and reviewed by Jenni of The Gingered Whisk.

We can all agree that convenience foods are nice – anything to help us put a meal on the table faster is a great thing. But more often than not, when we try and shortcut time we end up using more and more products out of cans, boxes and bags, and those are most likely packed with chemicals and ingredients that few of us can pronounce.

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Cookbook Review

Ruhlman's Twenty

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This cookbook was reviewed by Carol – a non-blogging member from Canada.

I love reading cookbooks! Reading recipes can transport me on an armchair food journey ending in salivating taste buds and is often punctuated with a resounding “YUM.” My tastes have evolved and changed in many facets of my life including cookbook styles. Thankfully, this has been aptly matched by a growing trend in cookbook publishing. No longer are cookbooks simply volumes of recipes interspersed with close-ups of food and a few glossy pictures.

Today’s modern cookbook is evolving into more prose-like missive, complete with explanations as to why the recipe is important to the author or what technique can be honed from a particular preparation. This is one reason why I enjoyed Michael Ruhlman’s Twenty so much as he takes this one step further. In Twenty, Ruhlman puts forth a manifesto of the most essential twenty techniques needed in the kitchen to make you a better cook. This is an educational experience indeed! Even the look and feel of Twenty mimics the size and page weight of scores of textbooks familiar to students all around the world.