I’ve been a little distracted from baking recently, thanks to a whirlwind week visit to Los Angeles. My actual job is in the media (I used to be a TV3 news reporter/presenter/producer and was a radio newsreader for many years in the UK/NZ), and still work with my husband in production. This trip combined work, …
Lucky Charm
During winter my kids always have a hot chocolate or Milo when they come home from school. My son likes hot chocolate, my daughter prefers Milo – of course they can’t both like the same thing!! Today I grabbed this old Lucky Charms mug from the back of the cupboard. It’s something I used myself …
Baking Me Happy
I’m SOOooo glad it’s the weekend! I hope everyone’s had a good week, for me it’s been (another) week of medical appointments, x-rays and MRI’s. I started up One Handed Baker in the months leading up to spine surgery when I could no longer work or walk very well, but have some other stuff going …
Sizzling Singapore
I’ve just come back from a few days in Singapore, as my husband’s ‘+1’ on a work trip. (I mean, he’d have been in trouble if he’d taken someone else!) We met at work 20 years ago and have worked for the same companies ever since. This was his side of the business though, so …
Behind the scenes…
There was a time last year when I couldn’t bake for weeks on end. And boy did I HATE it! There’s just something about baking that relaxes me… whether it’s quickly whipping up an old family recipe that I know inside out, or trying a new creative idea that make or may not work! I’ve …
Back to school…
Back to school means so many things after the long summer break. Digging out uniforms to discover polo shirts are now embarrassingly short… the daily challenge of making school lunches.. and having to get out of bed at a (quite frankly, shockingly) early hour, after a glorious few weeks of lazy lie-ins.
Travelling and Blogging
I knew there would never be an ideal time to start up a new blog and website, but decided to take the plunge despite it being rather chaotic around here (to say the least). First off – a rather h u g e project that’s been going-on behind the scenes. Can’t say
Gizmos and Gadget
Watching ‘Sweet Week’ on Masterchef Australia this week has got me drooling. Caramels, chocolate, berries – what’s not to love! In particular the gelato episode got me thinking. My kids eat a lot of ice cream and it seems to be a constant feature on our shopping list. I’ve often watched contestants on cooking shows …
Here we go!
It’s funny a first blog post. You feel it should be pretty damn significant in some way – so much so, it’s taken me a week of procrastinating to get to this point! But really, I’m all about keeping things simple so that’s how this will be. To begin with then, a little about me. …