-The KitchenMaid-

Long-time readers will know that I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Easter - no hot cross buns before Good Friday; no Easter eggs bef...

T. S Eliot was wrong. April is not the cruellest month - at least not in the southern hemisphere, where it means a slew of public holidays, ...

Do you dream of waking up on Good Friday to a trayful of freshly made hot cross buns? Me too. Over the years I've tried many ways of ach...

I'm not really that keen on sweets or lollies, but it takes a lot of willpower for me to resist a marshmallow. This has been a lifelong ...

After a truly hectic month, in which I spent far too much time out of my kitchen (not to mention being slightly out of my mind), I spent mos...

OK, everyone, it's time to pull on your legwarmers, leotards and headbands: it's the We Should Cocoa Fame round-up. Since I'm wr...

This time next week I hope to be getting ready to make my first batch of hot cross buns. As a child we never had them until Good Friday and ...

Given that it's Shrove Tuesday tomorrow, I thought it was about time I showed you a pancake-related relic from my childhood.... No, ...

This was my Easter, or at least the bits I photographed. Most of the time I was too busy - eating, standing at the kitchen sink, having a c...

Many moons ago, a suitor of mine once arrived on the doorstep bearing a charmingly vacuum-packed rabbit. It was an unexpected and unconvent...

When I was growing up there were rules about Easter. We only started eating hot cross buns on Good Friday and Easter eggs were verboten unti...

Since today is Shrove Tuesday - the day in which you are supposed to have one (or many) last feasts to use up all the decadent foods you...