On the way home from our honeymoon last year the husband and I spent a few days in Melbourne and one night we had dinner with his Aunt and Uncle. We got talking about cooking and Aunt T shared some cookbooks that she had gathered on her travels. One of these books was The Moosewood Cookbook which is an American vegetarian cookbook by Mollie Katzen. Aunt T kindly let us borrow the book for a while and I recently purchased my own copy of the updated version. Part of the appeal of the book was how it is hand written and illustrated by Mollie, with a few photographs in between.
The first recipe I thought I would try was the samosas as I looooooooove Indian cuisine.
Only on one previous occasion have I attempted to make marshmallows and it was a little bit of a disaster. They were a raspberry ripple marshmallow by Donna Hay and I must not have whipped the mixture long enough as they ended up being really runny and sticky.
In May I was asked to recreate the red velvet rose cake from 
A long time friend of the hubby is from Canada and kindly enough invited us to their Canada Day celebrations. Of course this means I found the perfect excuse to bake.
Since making