Blueberry and Almond Cake
Blueberry and Almond Cake

Unfortunately, like many of you I barely get time during the year to read the magazines I have subscriptions with. I mean really read them - from cover to cover. They arrive and end up sitting on my coffee table for weeks on end. So whenever I go away on holidays (like my recent trip up to Newcastle) I take a load of unopened magazines with me and read every word within the pages.

This trip, I managed to get through the Nov/Dec issues of Delicious, Gourmet Traveller and Donna Hay - which is where this sweet little baby came from.

I needed a quick and easy dessert to serve to my cousins who were coming to dinner, which didn't involve a load of ingredients and didn't have me spending all day in the kitchen (especially as I was in a foreign kitchen without my own utensils at hand).

This recipe was perfect.

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The Cookbook Challenge No. 50: Picnic
The Cookbook Challenge No. 50: Picnic

I'd been eyeing this cookbook off for sometime now since discovering it on my brothers bookshelf. Unfortunately, at $70 my purchase of it was going to have to wait. However a chance encounter at the Book Grocery saw me purchasing this little puppy for under $30 and it's been the best money I've spent it a long while.....I love this book and am planning to cook every single thing inside it.

Yep, it's that good!

At the beginning of this week, I made the decision that no matter what I made for this week's theme, it had to come from this book - even if I had to adapt the recipe, but when flicking through, I found something perfect for a Spring picnic.....

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The Cookbook Challenge No. 32: Potato Part 1
The Cookbook Challenge No. 32: Potato Part 1

What a vegetable!

In our family, we grew up eating potato with just about every meal. These days I tend to eat more sweet potato than the good old white variety, however whenever I do have it, it gives me such a feeling of comfort. All these warm fuzzy feelings just from one little vegetable!

The cookbook I decided to use for this weeks theme is one of the very first I ever received and it's one of the only cookbooks on my shelf that I've almost cooked every recipe out of it. I love it! This cookbook really introduced me to the whole dinner party scene, giving me the confidence to match foods together. As you can see by the photo, it has been very loved over the years.

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