Shifting Focus

It’s been about a year since I started this blog, and over the past three months I’ve been posting sporadically, if at all. I do have around 30 posts sitting in drafts, but I’ve just been so busy out there living life – work, sport, play – that I haven’t had a chance to write … Continue reading →

Fresh Bread cooks Coconut Cake: my grandma’s go to recipe

This is ridiculously easy. You’ll not believe me that it tastes delicious, but it does. I took it to work once, and got requests for the recipe – which I could write off the top of my head, as it’s SO easy! The sugar and coconut kind of caramelise together to form a delicious crust … Continue reading →

Fresh Bread cooks Berry Friands: gluten free goodies for friends

I’m not coeliac, but I know someone who is. Actually, I know multiple people who are coeliac (it can be up to 1 in 100) and have a legitimate reason not to eat gluten as their bodies can’t digest it.  I also know many, many more that have decided that for whatever dubious reason, they … Continue reading →

Fresh Bread cooks Gingerbread: too much ginger is not enough…

…unless you’re my housemate G, who was quite happy with my initial attempt at these gingerbread men because I had used old, impotent dry ginger expiring in 2006. BORING! Unfortunately for G, I’m trying to perfect these little buggers because I want to give them to Mr Behemoth’s family as a Christmas present in lieu … Continue reading →