by Ria Voros | Sep 14, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
I think I told you a long time ago about our old plum tree and how it suddenly and miraculously started bearing fruit (singular, because we only got one) after we’d assumed it was a dud. Well, this year I can report the most bumper crop yet: a whole...
by Hannah | Sep 7, 2016 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Sweet Little Something
This cake was a mistake. I don’t suppose that’s a good way to introduce a recipe, but let’s just call it a fortunate mistake. Like when you trip over a fifty dollar note on the sidewalk. You know how that happens. Truth was this cake...
by Hannah | Jul 27, 2016 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!
The other week Ria posted a gloriously golden cake – Lavender Honeycake – which looked like summer itself. I could practically smell the thing, as sweet and fragrant as long nights, wafting through my computer screen. If Ria’s cake – tanned and...
by Ria Voros | Jul 6, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
Oh, lavender. French gardens, milled soap, summer days, fresh-smelling wardrobes. Cake. No? Not a fan of soapy-tasting cake, as a friend of mine describes lavender in baked goods? Okay. Maybe just look at the photos and skip this next part. Ahem. For...
by Hannah | Mar 4, 2015 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
The weekend before last we piled bags, kids and a thousand toys (“You can take one! Okay two. Okay, fill a backpack…”) into the car and headed off on a road trip. We had booked a house in Raglan to share with our friends, Paul and Faith, who...
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