Friday, July 30, 2010

title pic Some comfort food for my poor, sick Rick

Posted by Gabi on 14 November 08

  Rick, my sweet, has been laid low with a bad cold for the last three days.  I actually enjoy taking care of him although I must admit he’s been a bit of  a right grumpy old Eeyore! He is a worker bee through and through and does not like to lay about so keeping him down [...]

title pic Tuesdays with Dorie Kugelhopf

Posted by Gabi on 11 November 08

  This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie  recipe is Kugelhopf chosen by lovely Yolanda of The All-Purpose Girl. The recipe can be found  on pages 61-63 of “Baking:From My Home to Yours” by Dorie Greenspan.  It’s a lovely brioche type dough studded with raisins  er…dried cherries, plums and apricots for me as (you probably know by now) I only [...]

title pic It’s a Pizza Pie with the Daring Bakers!

Posted by Gabi on 29 October 08

This months Daring Bakers’ Challenge is hosted by the lovely Rosa of Rosa’s Yummy Yums. She was to have hosted this month with Sher of What Did You Eat? and Glenna of A Fridge Full of Food but tragically Sher passed away suddenly in July leaving a rather large hole in the hearts of bloggers everywhere. [...]

title pic Tuesdays with Dorie- Pumpkin Muffins

Posted by Gabi on 21 October 08

Tuesdays with Dorie was started by Laurie at Quirky Cupcake (one of my favourite bloggers) in an intention to do that thing we all rarely do- bake all of the recipes in a cookbook we own.   Laurie received “Baking: From My Home To Yours” by Dorie Greenspan as a gift and challenged herself to [...]