• Baking Recipes,  Pies & Tarts

    The egg tart story

    I have this strange love-hate relationship with egg tart, stemming from this period during my teenage years when my Dad went through this crazy egg tart phase. For months it went on that he would buy one box of Lord Stow’s Egg Tarts every single Sunday, and then during afternoon teatime he would gather us around to finish the box off together. Us kids would gobble them up in a matter of seconds. At first I loved this weekly snack-time routine because Lord Stow’s back then made really mean egg tarts (not so sure now since I haven’t had one in a loooooong time). Despite loving these afternoons of family bonding, after so many…

  • Baking Recipes,  Simple cakes

    Banana Nutella Squares born out of excitement

    If you’re a reading fiend like me you probably have an obscene amount of books lying around in your room. My shelves are filled with novels in different genres, cookbooks, and even magazines. Despite that I still always have this need to buy any title that captures my interest, whether or not I’ve finished reading other novels on my to-read list, or cooked more than three recipes from a certain cookbook. It’s the same thing with magazines, only I am quite partial with buying issues only of magazines I like. I’ve got a select number of Donna Hay magazines because those make my eyes pop with the amazing photography and…