a little bit savoury | a whole lot sweet
So the home made soft pretzels have been a hit in our house since they made their first appearance on the weekend we celebrated our first wedding anniversary. Since then, I believe we have made them three or four times, with two of those being a double batch (so 24 of the things).
One afternoon, we were making them for the hubby’s folks as well as a friend of his and were wanting another dipping sauce to go with the mustard. The hubby’s choice was a cheese sauce so I ran with it.
In November there is a little race which stops the nation going by the name of the Melbourne Cup. I am not really into the whole horse racing thing, but I would not knock back the opportunity for time out of the office for afternoon tea.
This year we put on a spread, and over catered as usual, with my contribution being some Rose Macarons.
So I thought it would be nice to look back and see which of my posts proved to be the most popular since I started this blog in April. Although it has only been eight months, I really have enjoyed writing each week and it is certainly making me try new things as I am sure you do not want to read about the same thing over and over and over again. I am also thankful for your feedback and hearing from those of you who have made something that has appeared on here. It makes me smile.
One of my goals this year is to cook more from the numerous cookbooks I have acquired over the years. I tend to get seduced by the beautiful pictures and the intriguing stories or I only buy them for one recipe, and don’t often actually cook from them. That will change otherwise I don’t think I will be allowed to buy any more.
After having Christmas at our house last year, the hubby was pretty keen to host it again pretty well deciding that day. So the hunt began for a new dessert to top the Bûche de Noël from last year. I toyed with a couple of different “trees”, being macaron or meringue as well as a cake decorated with fondant from the front of the Creative SugarCraft magazine. Given the hubby’s immense dislike of fondant the last idea was thrown out the window but then I recalled a post on Raspberri Cupcakes’ blog for a red velvet cake with snowman macarons. It was very much reflecting a white Christmas, which we do not have here in Australia (although my parents inform me they did have snow many moons ago on Christmas Day) but it was still a winner in my books.