What are some of your favorite foods to pair with chocolate? Peanut butter? Strawberries? Bananas? Cherries? Coffee? Those flavors all go very well with chocolate, but have you ever tried chocolate and ginger? If not, this post will make you curious to try it!
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Flourless Chocolate & Salted Almond Cupcakes
I did it – I had a fourth baby! As cute and fun as babies are (well, most of the time anyway), I do indeed hope that this is my last one! 😉 In the 14 days since his birth, I’ve managed to bake a batch of these easy peanut butter cookies with chocolate chunks…
Filipino Fried Noodles With Chicken And Beans
I love to be in the kitchen mixing and baking; there isn’t really anywhere else I’d like to be. I’ve stated before that I prefer baking over cooking and this is probably because I don’t like all the prep work that cooking involves, namely chopping vegetables!
Orange Marmalade & Chocolate Shortbread
It’s been an excrutiating week for me. I’m still waiting on my camera to arrive! For those who don’t know, I recently won my first digital SLR camera thanks to the help of the readers of my blog! That was last Thursday; it’s been one week and I haven’t received the camera yet, although apparently…
Potato & Olive Salad
You may have noticed that things have been a little slow here at The Sweetest Kitchen lately. I apologize for that, but things have been busy here – all due to my children, who have ballet rehearsals and ballet concerts, or preschool concerts and preschool Christmas parties, or preschool orientations. During a break in these…
Aaron’s Chilli, Mushroom & Chorizo Pasta
Just to get your attention, I’m going to say first off that if you love Italian comfort-style food, you’re going to love this recipe for chilli, mushroom and chorizo pasta. It comes from MasterChef Australia magazine, issue #5, and is a creation of former MasterChef Australia contestant Aaron Harvie. I have to admit that while…
Lamingtons
As the story goes, the Australian lamington was created in December of 1901 in Government House in Queensland, where Lord Lamington was residing as the then-Governor of Queensland. Depending on which article you read on the internets, the lamington was either created by a maid working in the Government House kitchen who accidentally dropped a…
Scones With Honey Cream And Strawberry Apple Conserve
Lately I have been obsessed with foods that go perfectly with tea or coffee. I’m particularly interested in scones. In fact, I chose a scone with jam and cream to go with my flat white coffee at Thyme Square Cafe yesterday morning while I was out with my two sons and mother-in-law. Can you believe…
Banana Bread With Honeyed Ricotta
When I think about entertaining guests, there is one occasion that pops into my head every time. I really am not sure why, but it is a memory that has really stuck with me. It must have been 1997, soon after I had graduated high school, so I was 17 at this particular time. My…
