Firstly My Sincere Gratitude:
Please know that I’m immensely humbled and grateful once again for the most gracious, amazing comments you left me on my previous post and in celebrating my blog’s 4th anniversary, here, throughout the bloggersphere, facebook, twitter and through emails.
Thank you all, each and every one of you, your constant unfailing support and encouragement are so very dear to me.

Now to the announcement:
You may already know, or may have already guessed. Especially as I’m not the first to let the cat out of the bag.
I, myself along with 3 of my most favourite and talented blogging sisters, Ilva from Lucullian Delights whom I have great aspiration for. Jeanne, my amiable Cooksister who never fails to bring a smile ear to ear and my beloved neighbour Nanette, Ms Gourmet Worrier from across the Tasman…

have a new baby! Her name is Between Hemispheres.

In a nutshell she is a photo blog, where we four “chicas” share seasonal images between hemispheres.
Jeanne explains it best in three lines…

four photos…
from two hemispheres…
interpreting one theme.

Naturally a blog isn’t much of a blog without an audience and although we’ve been gradually building up over the last couple of weeks, it’s now time to send out a proper invitation. We would dearly love to have you visit Between Hemispheres and drop by often. Each week we have a new theme - this weeks being “Sky” and I’m rostered to post mine on Thursday, we think we’re pretty hot stuff so you can also find us on twitter and fan our flames on facebook.

No I haven’t forgotten the Apricot Tarte Tatin!
I scored myself a 10kg box of the most gorgeous little Moorpark Central Otago Apricots on the weekend and the fairies, J and I have been enjoying many of them straight out of the box. I also preserved a couple of kilos and made 4 big jars of jam with some of them today. Yet, tonight I still could not resist turning some into a little dessert.
Unfortunately as I desperately wanted to get this post up tonight before I slipped into an Apricot coma, means you will sadly have to wait another time for the recipe.
Forgive me!

Enjoy!

I think I’ve caught the Gluten-free baking bug!
Thankfully this is one bug I’m quite O.K with having. I’ve been getting some sweet satisfaction with my gluten-free experiments to date and these Gingerbread Red Currant Cakes were no exception.

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Who says omelettes have to be savoury?!

It’s true recipes for omelettes usually call for savoury flavourings, most notably herbs, cheese, (please click here to read the rest…)

There is nothing more torturous to me than seeing great food neglected and going to waste.
This was the case when we visited Ferrymead Heritage Park a couple of weekends back just after Christmas with our friends P & H together with their fairies.

While the others quickly forgot as we (please click here to read the rest…)

I’m pleased to hear I didn’t put too many of you off with my cherry story, but it’s possibly fortunate that I don’t have a similar story about apricots. It’s not that I don’t like apricots, it’s just that I never eat very many at one time; as is my habit with cherries.

I made these crumbles … well to be honest it’s a few weeks ago now and although they are last years crumbles, I still wanted to share them with you. They were my first attempt at (please click here to read the rest…)

We often have these types of meals in Summer, filled lettuce cups are always a quick meal, easy enough for kids to prepare with little to no cooking required. They’re also ideal for using up leftover barbecued meats, canned fish and we’ve even been known to fill lettuce with leftover curry or dahl - delish! Together with (please click here to read the rest…)