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No Knead Cheese & Onion Beer Bread for Australia Day!

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

“Honey do you mind vaccuming today?” I asked Mr NQN last Saturday. “Errr okaaay….later” he said looking at me with a measure of suspicion. I’m sure he wondered how a perfectly lovely weekend day had suddenly turned hideous. About twenty minutes later, I heard some expletives from the lounge room. “&*(&(&(!!” he yelled and then [...]

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Being Heidi: Zopf Swiss Plaited Bread

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:00:54 +0000

When someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I said “I could be a professional speller”. You see I had been brought up reading flash cards for the formative years of my life and if I had one skill it was as someone that can spell (although this plateaued once [...]

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Swirly Povitica Roll – Daring Bakers October 2011

Not Quite Nigella — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:00:40 +0000

I was always hopeless at Maths at school. I looked at it like some sort of strange wizardry and my teachers used to be frustrated at how I just could not wrap my head around things as simple as calculus and I kept wondering why they would try to make me do something that seems [...]

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Sticky, Buttery Croissant Buns – Daring Bakers September 2011

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:01:59 +0000

I was staring at the woman in front of me slack jawed and my eyes full of admiration. I elbowed Mr NQN. “Look at her, she’s amazing…” I said wide eyed. “That woman?” he said looking at me and looking in the direction where the woman was. “Yep, her” and I let out a hopeless [...]

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Sour Cream Custard Brioche (Gâteau à la Crème Fraîche)

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:00:47 +0000

There was Mr NQN his eyes wide glued to the television. He was riveted, watching a stark naked man running across the ice. “Honey come have a look! Bear is running across the ice naked!!!” “And I would want to see this, why?” I asked raising an eyebrow from the comfort of the other room. [...]

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Of Bacon Fougasse & MILFs

Not Quite Nigella — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:00:35 +0000

In a rather startling turn of events I was called a MILF for the first time in my life the other day. My first reaction was to turn behind me and look for the MILF in question. Surely they were talking about someone else. After all they know me and I am missing the most [...]

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Mocha Hot Cross Bunnies!

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:00:32 +0000

Happy Monday Dear Readers! Are you looking forward to the Easter break as much as I am? In fact it’s all that I can think about this week. Five uninterrupted sanctioned days of eating chocolate and hot cross buns. Which led me to think of other little things that bring on happiness. To me, small pieces of [...]

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60 Minute Baguettes

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:00:40 +0000

In the culinary world’s equivalent of an excuse I knew I had a doozy. “I’m sorry I’m late but I was busy talking to Nigella Lawson” was kind of like proffering up the excuse of “My pet ate my home work”. It didn’t sound quite real and would probably be met with a disbelieving or [...]

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Sally Lunn Buns

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:00:46 +0000

Let me tell you about a member of our little family. Our car Elphaba is a naughty racing green coloured creature that often likes to act up. She prefers it when I drive her to Mr NQN because as a half Finn, he drives cars like he is a rally car driver. I, with my [...]

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Welcome To Our Very Merry Finnish Christmas!

Not Quite Nigella — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:00:38 +0000

Merry Christmas my Dearest, Darlingest Readers! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas full of love and laughter and that you have had a chance to rest and recuperate from the crazy year that was 2010! In previous years I haven’t really written much about our Christmasses as we were often away without an internet [...]

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