Posted on 26 April 2008 by liz
I’m a little bit tardy with this post, but I’ve been a bit lazy in the kitchen of late. Yesterday was Anzac Day, which is kind of like the Australian version of Veteran’s Day here, and since I will take any excuse I can get to make Anzac biscuits, I figured I’d share them with [...]
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Posted on 23 March 2008 by liz
Hot cross buns (or hot x buns, as I call them, in honor of my rudimentary decorating skills and slightly twisted Catholic school girl days) are delicious breakfast food, full of warm spices, juicy raisins, and whatever else you happen to want to throw in with the dough. They’re a relatively quick yeast bread, though [...]
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Posted on 17 March 2008 by liz
That song is perhaps the cheesiest reminder that today is St. Patrick’s Day. Flogging Molly or the Pogues are more my style, as my Pandora station might reveal. But according to my red hair, freckles, and relatively large percentage of Irish blood, I suppose I should be in a celebratory mood, with the requisite tolerance [...]
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