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Spiced Sweet Potato Chocolate Cake

christinajbartlett — Wed, 13 May 2015 01:20:06 +0000

It dawned on me, after three years of living in Canada, that we don’t get kumara here. We have sweet potato (yellow kumara) and yams (orange kumara) but none of the beautiful dark red/purple skinned potatoes we get back home. The typical New Zealand kumara, which we used to roast alongside lamb for Sunday dinner […]

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cinnamon chai bundt cake

christinajbartlett — Fri, 16 May 2014 04:13:19 +0000

I’ve been flicking through the pages of the latest Little & Friday Cookbook, themed Celebrations and full of wonderful, celebratory recipes for a host of occasions. And every time I bookmark yet another recipe that needs to be tested, ie that I am dying to taste. Chocolate Beetroot Salted Caramel Cake for a Chocolate 21st, […]

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salted caramel & spiced apple crumble bars

christinajbartlett — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 06:25:04 +0000

Despite fall being long since over (it’s snowing a storm out there), there are some seasonal flavours that never pass, like tangy green apples spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s one (of the many) combinations our household has no resistance for. Combined with salted caramel and toasted walnuts, these are some killer crumble bars suitable […]

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maple wholewheat pumpkin bread

christinajbartlett — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:06:02 +0000

I’m milking pumpkin season for all it’s worth. You see, us New Zealanders don’t bake with pumpkin. This pumpkin-mad season is all quite foreign, quite exotic, and altogether quite fun. Also uncommon in New Zealand is pumpkin carving. With Halloween barely celebrated (compared to North America anyway) and giant orange pumpkins near impossible to find, […]

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spiced apple cake cookie’wiches {with browned butter}

christinajbartlett — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:26:02 +0000

It seems Jesse and I complain an awful lot about being out of our comfort zone (Fresh veggies are so expensive! Our families are so far away! The midnight sun makes it hard to sleep!). We went through some early journal articles about our decision to leave New Zealand. Our main reasons for moving to […]

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donut shaped apple cinnamon muffins

christinajbartlett — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:02:09 +0000

Canadians are not really muffin people.* But they are donut people. For the first month at this new cafe I was baking ‘morning tea’ (aka elevenses) style muffins. Apple and bran, banana and oat, lemon and poppyseed. And most people turned their noses at them. I get it. New Zealanders would too if every second […]

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yoghurt & granola parfait

christinajbartlett — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:40:01 +0000

We grew up calling it muesli. Which is the accurate name for the raw oaty mix found in our breakfast bowl every morning, commonly found in health stores. The toasted, sweetened cereal that is more common on the supermarket shelf is indeed more accurately called, as they say in North America, granola. “Muesli was created […]

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