This is a dense cake, almost the texture of a steamed pudding – which means it survives well being bounced around in a lunch box.
I can’t say this is fast and easy. It’s a long slow Sunday afternoon recipe, and it creates quite a bit of washing up! But there’s a good return on investment – for an hour or so of Sunday afternoon baking, you can have several very healthy dinners and lunches made ready for the week.
This week’s Challenger uses pecans and apple (both in season) and a secret ingredient – beetroot.
You can tell we’re heading towards the southern hemisphere Halloween – we have pumpkins in such abundance that you can see where the idea of cutting faces in them came from.
Squid are generally a fairly safe choice – they breed fast, die young, and may even be over-filling their niche as their natural predators struggle to maintain their populations.
This is an Indian style oil-based pickle that is fantastic on the side of a vegetable curry, and really really good with cheese on bread.…
This all started with an item in the Sunday papers about how women really should do weights training. I looked at the weights, but that idea lasted all of about two seconds.