• Baking Recipes,  Bread-making,  My Comfort Food,  Timeless Treats,  Yeasted breads

    When life kicks your butt, make pizza

    Lately I’ve been on a roller coaster of sorts, both physically and emotionally. It has nothing to do with anything particular and everything to do with the normal way of life. Sometimes living can suck the energy out of you, which is ironic in a way. Ending the day feeling tired to the bones feels like proof that I’m living a real life and no longer in the protective bubble that I seemed to have lived in during my years as a student. Life had been fairly simple back then, my only responsibility to do with doing my best in school. I’ve never been much of a slacker in the…

  • Autumn baking,  Baking Recipes,  Must-Makes from Martha,  Pies & Tarts,  Timeless Treats

    A slice of apple pie a day keeps insanity away

    Things have been crazy around here. The effects of the flood have not, to put it mildly, been pretty. In fact, looking at the aftermath of it is depressing. We’ve packed a lot of old clothes and shoes for the relief drive, but on a personal level, the damage and loss we have sustained in our own family company is also brutal. Let’s just say we’ve been cleaning for three days non-stop and haven’t even made it to a quarter of the stocks and other things that need to be rescued. The paperwork on my desk is slowly piling up, neglected in favour of other more dire priorities. I reckon…

  • Experiments & experiences,  Recipe Round-Up

    {Kitchen Diaries} Fruity Comfort Food

    What’s your favourite kind of comfort food? For a lot of people that is probably a tough question. I know I’ve got quite a few at the top of my mind, but one of them happens to be Apple Crisps or Apple Crumble. I just love the cinnamony scent and taste of the tender apples contrasting with the deliberate grittiness of the topping. I love how its simplicity, and the fact that it can be so easily and quickly thrown together, essentially epitomizes a lazy day at home in your pyjamas; hair unkempt, kicking back with a nice warm mug of coffee– no pretentions, no embellishments. Nothing else except plainly…