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Some tracks from the upcoming release of The Great Gatsby are available for listens via Spotify:
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More baking – this time a purple and white swirled rosette cake for the mother of one of my best friends who is celebrating a birthday this weekend. Can you believe this is my first purple cake? It’s travelling to Okaihau today so I hope it has a safe trip!
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Been baking. These are vegan cupcakes with cream cheese flavoured duotone buttercream roses. I know, cream cheese and buttercream do not sound vegan. Did you know professional buttercream is made from vegetable shortening? It keeps better*. Thank goodness – doing a cake decorating course without sampling the frosting would have been rather difficult. These babies will … Continue reading “”
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Cute! I helped Nathalie at work to make a cake for her little brother Aaron’s 8th birthday this weekend. It’s a dirt race-track with grass, if you can’t tell! Cake is eggless chocolate cake with vegan chocolate buttercream, the grass is tinted vanilla buttercream. The banner may be my proudest moment, so THAT’S why I … Continue reading “”
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Photo galleries at work sometimes have amazing images submitted. Coast has a competition to “win a second honeymoon” by submitting a photo from your wedding day. This has to be my favourite image, but there are lots of W T H photos too.
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Why I Read Thought Catalog
Link: Why I Read Thought Catalog Sometimes there are hits.
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After the storm
Go-to playlist. Piles of folk/pop/dance/rock (I hate genres), that feels good and is perfect to read or work to.
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Spiced roast veges
For Alex. Tasty variation on the standard roast vege fare. Substitute whatever you have – pumpkin, sweet potato, potatoes, garlic, shallots, spices etc. This is what I used in a dish for girlfriends here for Friday night potluck… Would be nice with pumpkin/sunflower seeds too. Ingredients 2 large smooth golden kumara (sweet potato), peeled and … Continue reading “Spiced roast veges”
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Sugar free Raspberry/Chocolate vegan Smoothie
Fiona had the most amazing raw, gluten/vegan raspberry and chocolate cake for her birthday last weekend. So good. I’ve taken to slicing and freezing overripe/surplus bananas for smoothies. I find they make them super creamy even without any kind of milk, more so with milk. A thicker “smoothie” negates any ice cream craving, this recipe … Continue reading “Sugar free Raspberry/Chocolate vegan Smoothie”
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The profile photos of everyone in the Camp a Low Hum Facebook group have a certain flavour about them.
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Tiny Furniture (2010) written, directed and starred in by Lena Dunham. Just had to screen grab these outfits. Aura especially. Little review on Letterboxd.
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Vegan Coconut & Cardamom Pancakes
This weekend I learned that pancakes don’t really need eggs in them at all. And after two mornings in a row cooking vegan pancakes, I’m feeling a bit smug about this delicious discovery. Also, they are “superfast” to make. Eggs creep me the hell out. Some will have heard the story of a particularly disturbing … Continue reading “Vegan Coconut & Cardamom Pancakes”
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Roasted Portobello Mushrooms on Spinach/Kumara SaladFor Lauren <3 This tasty recipe sounds harder than it is. I wrote it for the mushrooms and salad to be prepped together. I think it would serve two but as quite a light meal. The dish would also work well with Pumpkin in place of Kumara (though pumpkin would … Continue reading “”
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Made some adorable cupcakes for my workmates to celebrate our last day of work for the year tomorrow. I had these cute red and white polkadot cupcake cases from Look Sharp ($5NZD for 25, bargain!), and filled them with lemon coconut cake. The frosting is white chocolate marscapone buttercream, and I bought a bag of … Continue reading “”
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The Greenest Salad
This recipe from 101 Cookbooks is a winner. My garden is bursting with lettuce at the moment, asparagus is in season and broccoli is also very cheap. It’s definitely worth toasting and adding the pistachios, I only used a small amount but they went very far. Yum.
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Coconut & Chia Spiced Oats I’ve been eating oats for breakfast for a long time now, and am starting to play a bit more with what goes in them. This morning I was feeling like coconut, and this first try recipe is a hit! Oats Oat Milk Vanilla Essence (1 tsp) White Chia Seeds (1 … Continue reading “”