If there was ever a name to grab my baking attention – Fat Rascals has to be up there at the top of the list. It’s cheeky and fun yet describes perfectly this scone dressed as a cake. How this name came about is a mystery but the cakes have been made... Hopefully you’ve been following progress so far on the construction of the kitchen garden. Things have picked up over the week as the wet weather has started to break although it’s still been very cold and windy. The fun has really started with the actual... Despite my years of learning Spanish the finer differences between El niño and La niña as far as the weather is concerned are a bit of a mystery to me. All I know is that El niño is not something that we really want as it brings lower than average temperatures,... I do wonder what the early European settlers to New Zealand were thinking when they loaded their menagerie on the boats. What must have been on their mind when they added hedgehogs to their payload? Perhaps they thought they were bringing a potential washer woman,... Of all the foodie production systems I have a fascination with its wine making. This was first sparked when we visited Cape Town, South Africa on holiday many years ago when we toured the luscious wine region of Stellenbosch. It was during my virgin wine tasting... 