Wednesday, February 27, 2013

4//2013 AMOK

Awesomeness. That is all.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

3//2013 Quickie desserts

I am always on the look-out for "quick" recipes - something tasty that can be whipped up with minimal time and effort. This tendency makes even more sense when there's a demanding newborn around, and just this week I've found a couple of delicious chocolatey recipes that were (relatively) quick and easy.
Celebration choccie roll
The first is Smitten Kitchen's heavenly chocolate cake roll. It has no flour, but, with 8 eggs, it had a really wonderful light texture yet was incredibly rich and filling, especially with the delicious whipped cream. I made this cake during the week to celebrate some good news Simon received - that he is to be a recipient of a Junior Faculty Award - a wonderful recognition of his very hard work. Donnacha and I are super proud!
Gooey nutella raspberry cakes
The second followed an exciting discovery of a lovely Australian blog, eat, little bird. Recipes that include nutella are like shiny things to my magpie brain and I knew I had to make these gooey chocolate cakes with raspberry and nutella as soon as I saw them. The fact that they did not turn out incredible was entirely my own fault - I ran out of flour and included some Bob's Red Mills gluten-free flour mix (only 40g, of 100g), which I had due to a half-hearted gluten-free kick I've been on. Huge mistake - the flavor completely dominated (though my kind visitors said they did not notice). I will definitely make them again, with no substitutions!

Saturday, February 9, 2013

2//2013 Before and after

Before//After
Not much is getting done around here these days, seeing as my craft table is otherwise occupied. But the smiles make it all worth it!

Monday, January 28, 2013

1//2013 He is here.


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Well, he's actually been here for 5 weeks at this point - he's grown quite a bit and lost a lot of hair since this photo was taken. I never imagined the time would go by so quickly, though we do little more than eat, sleep and change nappies (diapers). We are incredibly lucky to have a very chilled little fella who rarely makes a fuss. His mum and dad are completely and utterly in love.

Stripey puerperium
Donnacha was a bigun... 9lbs 11oz, almost 22inches tall, and was too big for many of his clothes from the start. Thankfully all the things I made for him still fit, though I need to get to work on more! The mammy-made object I've been happiest with is the puerperium cardigan, knit with Madelinetosh Tosh Merino DK (in denim and candlewick). Both the pattern and the wool are a joy - I'm going to cast on a larger size as soon as I have a chance! I'll make the next one stripey too; just like babies, I love stripes!