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Golden and Red Beet Tart

I had grand plans- I envisioned alternating layers or thingly sliced purple and golden beets, dotted with goat cheese and fresh basil over golden puff pastry.
The oven was on and I was about to wrap up my beets, before realizing they were huge! “They’ll never cook, I had better chop them up.” So i [...]


Strawberry Pavlovas with Blueberry Coulis

My mum makes the best pavlovas for Sunday Dinner deserts.  They are a bit of a commitment though- it takes an hour of low cooking in the oven, and then if you want  to avoid cracks, leave them in the oven until it has properly cooled (3 + hours).  And don’t even think about making [...]


Hooray for non-microwaved food: Boozy Leek and Butternut Squash PIE

So this temp job I have requires eight consecutive ten-hour work days, followed by 6 days off.  For those 8 days, I am confined to hotel-room microwave cooking.  Hence the gap between posts.  During the first eight day session I subsisted off of microwaved baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, couscous, and soup.  I tried one frozen [...]