Italian Style Chocolate Milk Pudding
When I make cakes or desserts it’s to please my sweet toothed husband, a man with an enviable metabolic rate. He makes no excuses for his frequent consumption of … Continue reading
Lime marmalade pudding
Rib sticking winter puddings were a mainstay of dinners during the cold months of my childhood, a throwback to my British working class heritage. Pudding was the only incentive to … Continue reading
Bread and Butter Pudding
If you’re listening Leah, I miss the Cookbook Guru. I miss it because it gave me a focus, a reason to take a different cookbook from the shelf each month, … Continue reading
Saffron Rice Pudding, Slow Roasted Plums
Rice pudding has warm and fuzzy connotations for me. Whenever my Mum baked a roast dinner she would put a simple English style baked rice pudding in the bottom of … Continue reading
Sticky Date Pudding with Caramel Sauce
Sometime in the early 1990s I pasted a recipe clipped from from The Australian Gourmet Traveller into my battered blue recipe folder. I have altered it a little but that … Continue reading
Pear and Ginger Upside Down Cake
Lost, a tatty, food splattered magazine clipping. It’s the recipe for a much loved pear and ginger upside cake. I’d already bought the pears and checked the pantry for treacle … Continue reading
Bramble Berry Crumble Slice
The blogs I follow cover a vast range of genres. Posts about food, fashion and photography, creative writing and political satire, gardening, arts and handcrafts, social history and photography arrive … Continue reading
Hazelnut, Orange and Cinnamon Quince Crumble
Orange and cinnamon are the perfect complement to the heady perfumed flavour of quince. It’s temping to add cinnamon sticks, orange zest and vanilla beans to the quince poaching liquor, … Continue reading
Summer Pudding, gluten free
My family abandoned English food traditions at Christmas time long ago in favour of lighter fare, but a traditional English Summer Pudding with berries is frequently our dessert of choice. … Continue reading
Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
My Mum used to frequently make Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding for the family in winter. I never liked it much, I found way too sweet! I’ve been mulling over adapting … Continue reading
GOLDEN APPLE CAKE
My other half loves puddings and pies, especially if they’re made with apple and he’s an especially happy boy if I serve him pudding with custard. This recipe ticks both … Continue reading
BAKED LEMON SULTANA PUDDING
There is limited availability of economical fresh seasonal fruit on which to base desserts in the colder months in Melbourne, rhubarb, citrus, apples, pears, but Australia produces some of the … Continue reading
The people behind this project…
Recently we got together for a weekend in Brisvegas together. It’s been a while since we’ve seen each other, and this was the first catchup since this blog was … Continue reading
My Mum’s Hot Apple Crumble Recipe
This is one of my “written down” recipes for hot puddings copied from clippings pasted in my Mum’s recipe file. A few weeks ago I posted Hot Rhubarb and Banana … Continue reading
Please Pass the Recipe 