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A Kids Afternoon Tea at The Sir Stamford

Not Quite Nigella — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:00:32 +0000

“So Lorraine, how has life been? Busy? ” Five year old Laura says to me earnestly, holding a wine glass full of water with both hands around the bowl to steady it. She looks at me her legs crossed wearing a pearl patterned knitted dress and diamanté bow in her hair. She along with her [...]

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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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Springtime Mango & Poppyseed Cupcakes & Teeny, Tiny Moments of Happiness

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:00:03 +0000

This past week has been one of the most frantic of my life. I can’t quite reveal why just yet (although I’m dying to!), but I do have some rather exciting news to share with you soon. But with excitement comes much work and these past few days have passed by in a blur of [...]

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Lil’ Piggy Buns!

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:00:10 +0000

I had quite a crazed weekend this past one. In fact it was so hectic that I felt that I needed a weekend to get over my weekend. Do you ever have those times when you collapse into bed exhausted at the end of a Sunday night at 9pm? And whilst I love social engagements, [...]

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Turtle Shaped Pancakes

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:00:15 +0000

Recently, and I realise that I’m a bit late posting this as the event occured a couple of weeks back, we had a big change in Australia. We had our first first female Prime Minister (and about time really, NZ had one ages ago). As this isn’t a political blog I won’t get into things [...]

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Quesadilla Cake – Ugly but Delicious

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:00:15 +0000

I was tired and grumpy and terribly hot here at home and all I could dream about was working in an air conditioned office. The only benefit to working in an office apart from office birthday cakes. Even in the heat I was thinking about dinner (you can’t keep a good eater down). I wanted [...]

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Mini Watermelon Jellies

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:39 +0000

I hate wasting things. So much so that I’m forever trying to find ways to use things – some less successful than others. Case in point: pumpkin seeds. I used to bake pumpkin pies for a living (much more fun than it sounds) and I’d go through kilos of pumpkin each week.I tried to do [...]

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Nutty Caramel Popcorn – Better Then Bought!

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:29 +0000

I am a woman of ratios. For someone that was average at best at Maths at school, for me food is all about ratios. The correct ratio of moisture to dryness the correct ratio of salt to sweet and the correct ratio of popcorn to caramel. I always find that when I get a bag [...]

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(Mr) Toad In The Hole

Not Quite Nigella — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:00:57 +0000

When I was a child, there were a few foods that I wanted to try just for the novelty of the name. They were invariably English because the English love an eccentric name (Spotted Dick anyone? ). One of them was Toad In The Hole which of course my mother never made as my father [...]

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Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches

Not Quite Nigella — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:30 +0000

I had a brainwave during a heatwave. And of course it was a brain wave about food. “What about if I made some ice cream sandwiches shaped like ice cream?” I asked Mr NQN. He’s used to strange questions but the idea of having ice cream during this hot day appealed to him and he [...]

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