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Christmas Coconut Macaroons Recipe (two ways)
Christmas Coconut Macaroons Recipe This simple and sweet Christmas coconut macaroons recipe makes a festive favourite that is lovely to gift or serve to guests over the holidays. With a twist on the shape, it can create a bit of fun on your Christmas cookie plate. By Jen Curcio Christmas Coconut Macaroons Recipe Makes...

Julius Brantner – Foodie Profile
Julius Brantner – Foodie Profile In our latest Foodie Profile I chat to Julius Brantner, a Munich based baker who is one of the few of his kind in the country. He shares a little bit about his process, breads on offer at his bakery, and where to find ‘real German bread’ in Germany. (All images...

Papassini recipe (Sardinian Christmas biscuits)
Papassini recipe (Sardinian Christmas biscuits) This biscuit is made with so many variations across the island of Sardinia, also with variations to the name depending on where you come from. With a combination of sultanas, chopped nuts, spices, citrus zest, and a glazing of icing with a scatter of hundreds and thousands, there is something...

Shop Our Festive Baking Stationery Range – SOLD OUT
Festive Baking Stationery – BELOW SETS HAVE SOLD OUT Baking themed stationery gifts for the home baker or lover of baked treats this Christmas. Introducing our new range of festive baking stationery. After a few months of working behind the scenes I’m really excited to share something for the festive baker this holiday season: festive...

Lemon ginger cinnamon cake recipe
Lemon ginger cinnamon cake recipe This juicy, sweet and tangy lemon ginger cinnamon cake recipe was inspired by the festive season but can be enjoyed all year round. This delicious recipe for lemon ginger cinnamon cake was generously shared with me by Matthias Frész, a teacher at the Akademie Deutsches Bäckerhandwerk in Weinheim where I recently completed my bread...
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Join our 2020 Christmas Baking Swap [Registrations now closed]
Decisive Cravings Christmas Baking Swap 2020 Join our second Christmas baking swap! This is for the bakers, treat eaters and lovers of snail mail. [REGISTRATIONS NOW CLOSED] If you love Christmas or the festive holidays, and receiving parcels in the mail then keep reading. Last year we organised our first ever BAKING SWAP with beautiful parcels...

Spiced Honey Cake Recipe
Spiced Honey Cake Recipe Words, recipe and images by Yasmin Shenhav Yasmin Shenhav of Sunny Side Up, shares with us her recipe for Spiced Honey Cake. This is something she makes every year to celebrate the tradition of Jewish New Year. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, has many food-related traditions. We celebrate the...
Puff Pastry Pizza
Puff Pastry Pizza By Jennifer Curcio I love simple, quick and flavoursome mid-week meal options and this is one of our favourites. Every few weeks we make a version of this Puff Pastry Pizza and serve it with a few fresh sides to balance out the indulgence of the pastry. The version I’ve shared below...

Melbourne Food Orders for Good (during lockdown)
Photo by Spencer Davis on Unsplash Melbourne Food Orders for Good A round-up of stay-at-home meals and food initiatives that support those impacted by Melbourne’s current lockdown. by Jennifer Curcio Melbourne has reinvented itself under lockdown. Market Lane’s roastery in East Brunswick now has a coffee bean vending machine, chefs normally making food are baking...

Creamy potato salad with tarragon & caper berries
Creamy potato salad with tarragon and caper berries This potato salad is a variation on something I grew up with. Mum would make a simple potato salad with olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper, with the occasional guest appearance of parsley and sometimes mayonnaise. Mayonnaise for me is a must and so is vinegar but...

Nonna’s wild fennel and roasted chestnut soup
Nonna’s wild fennel and roasted chestnut soup This is my Nonna’s wild fennel and roasted chestnut soup which I wrote about in this story for SBS Food. This recipe, shared with me by my mother which we recorded together, was something her mother, my Nonna, used to make during the cold winters in Sardinia. Some notes...

Miranda Mills – Foodie Profile
Miranda Mills – Foodie Profile Miranda Mills is a writer, bibliophile, ex-Londoner and the host of the Tea and Tattle Podcast. She also runs Miranda’s Notebook and Miranda’s Bookcase. Miranda, you wear many hats, running the Tea & Tattle podcast, as well as Miranda’s Notebook and Miranda’s Bookcase. Could you share a little bit about...