I was recently given a huge haul of citrus from a friend's farm so have been on a mission to make things with oranges, grapefruit, limes...

  I've got a real affection for cakes flavoured with citrus. The acidity of the fruit spectacularly offsets the sweetness of sugar. The ...

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I really like simple cakes. This one definitely fits the bill - made in a loaf tin, with ingre...

This last lockdown I wasn't baking as much. This is partly because I lost friends to farm out food to by being restricted to a 5km radiu...

    A few weeks ago I went to Brisbane. It was my first trip in over a year because of all the border closures that have characterised COVID...

  A sign of a good cake is how often you make it. Since the recipe for this one was published on The Design Files mid-October of 2020, it...

Cakes that contain sour cream are almost guaranteed to be good. I first heard about this one on the Home Cooking podcast. Samin Nosrat was ...

Sometimes there is no story. Sometimes it's Saturday and you just want to make a cake. So it was last weekend. I'd had this...

A week or so ago a friend of mine had a birthday. Here in Sydney, as in so many places around the world at the moment, anything but esse...

It's been a sombre summer in Australia. Here in Sydney, we're safe from the fires but have been under a thick cloud of smoke s...

I didn't want winter to slip away without making the most of citrus. Grapefruit is one of my favourites, often overlooked in baking ...

Nature is clever. In the middle of winter, when everything is feeling grey and dreary, it offers up citrus. It's enough to just ...

I made a cake. It's been a while. After meeting all my deadlines, the sun was out Saturday and so I baked. This recipe I'd had b...

    Blueberries were bountiful. Saturday I was going to the Blue Mountains. I snaffled Simple from the library. All signs pointed to me...

Yotam Ottolenghi has a new book ! I don't own it (yet) but my friend Joanna does and I recently spent a pleasurable couple of hours ...

Once a year, in December, I make fruitcake. It's my grandmother's recipe . In my family, it was first made by her, then by my mo...

Sometimes I stray across a recipe that I'm moved to make straight away. Such was the case last week when the ever-reliable Smitt...

When is it acceptable to eat cake for breakfast?  a) when it's your birthday b) when in Rome (or more literally, for me, in Stanwe...

As I get older I have a greater appreciation for simple cakes - the sort that wouldn't turn a head in a display case beside chocolat...

I've had my head down with a deadline and haven't been baking, but last Thursday I felt an irresistible pull towards my Kitche...