We are now a quarter of the way through our challenge to bake our way through A Treasury of NZ Baking...and are looking for a new recruit to join us! If you are keen to take part - baking one Treasury recipe a month to feature on Lovely Wee Days - please leave us a comment under this post. We have a brand new copy of the Treasury sitting here to send to the winner, who will be announced next Thursday.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
thursday baking - want to help?
We are now a quarter of the way through our challenge to bake our way through A Treasury of NZ Baking...and are looking for a new recruit to join us! If you are keen to take part - baking one Treasury recipe a month to feature on Lovely Wee Days - please leave us a comment under this post. We have a brand new copy of the Treasury sitting here to send to the winner, who will be announced next Thursday.
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Ooooooo pick me! I have a baby and only small bursts of free time but need some sort of structured project to keep me busy when he has a rare long nap. And I have been admiring that book every time I go to Moore WIlsons, debating with myself whether I can justify buying another cookbook.
ReplyDeletethis homesick kiwi would love to be a part of your blog !!! and as you can see from mine I do love to bake !!!
ReplyDeleteMy husband & sisters have suggested I volunteer, I'm not baking enough apparently! I actually already have this book (lovely) but if you want a baker from time to time happy to put my hand (or wooden spoon) up, especially anything bready!
ReplyDeletehave put a link to this on my mousehouse facebook page, i'm not much of a baker but i know plenty that are!
ReplyDeleteHi! I gave you ladies an award on my blog http://mechagenkibento.blogspot.com/2010/09/wow-i-got-award.html
ReplyDeleteLove a good bake but can never decide which gorgeous recipe to try so this could be tha answer - do them all :-)
ReplyDeleteI"m totally keen. You know how much I love the blog and I"m a good baker (well most of the time). Always good to be forced into cooking something new too. So easy to get stuck in a rut. Willing to subsidise the prize with postage costs!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you guys might have a hard time choosing. There might have to be a bake off! Or lots of guest slots!
Hi - I would like to put up my wooden spoon and say pick me! I am a mum of two boys 9 & 7, have 4 chickens in my auckland back yard, 2 cats and a big vegie patch. And amongst all that I work full time. But you know what they say about giving a busy person another job ... I love baking (actually love good food in general) and reading blogs. I have made some of the recipies off your blog, and have dribbled all over the Treasury of NZ baking in the book stores and cruzed the pages of trade-me looking for my own copy, yet to justify paying full price for one. I even got one out of the library for my allotted 3 weeks of devine baking.
ReplyDeleteSo please please pick me ...
Well, I would love to do that, but it would cost you a fortune to ship it to the US. I'll throw my baseball cap into the ring anyway. I'm a baker and a blogger and I love Kiwi treats, and that's my 5c worth!
ReplyDeleteI would love to be your helpful baker, I adore your blog and have wanted to blog myself but Im not sure if on my own I would have enough material or time to create a full blog.....however to contribute to yours would be a super duper way to be a baking blogger. I am a kiwi, however I live in Bahrain so the shipping would be about $20 NZD rather than a $4 for a local.....I would happily pay shipping to be a part of your lovely blogging family!
ReplyDeleteWould you lovely Kiwi bakers consider an Australian for the job? I’ve got no funny hang-ups about pavlova, I swear. I used to live in NZ and developed a fondness for Kiwi baking. Mmm - Afghans. To demonstrate my enthusiasm for your project (and because, let’s face it, I’m a massive girly swot) I googled ATONZB and found an extract with a couple of recipes. I whipped up a slice and wrote a sample blog post for you!
ReplyDeleteGinger & Chocolate Coconut Slice
Pippa Cuthbert
With its smooshed up biscuits and lashings of condensed milk, this slice was not what you’d call sophisticated. It was very easy to make though - just melting chocolate, butter and condensed milk, combining with the biscuits, nuts and glace ginger, then forming logs of deliciousness and leaving them to set in the fridge overnight. Or two hours if you were like us and couldn’t wait. The next morning, the logs were much easier to slice, revealing a mosaic of chunks inside – a pleasing kind of chocolate stained-glass window effect. Still, mine didn’t look as pretty as the one in the picture. Of course, the photographed slice was perfectly round with a flawless coconutty exterior. It turned out to be harder than I thought to roll the gooey, wet logs in coconut and the recipe didn’t offer any guidance. But I guess since this slice wasn’t aiming for chi-chi perfection, a few bald spots here and there don’t matter. Flavour-wise, the slice was sweet. Powerfully, unapologetically, horrify-your-dentist sweet. After a few nibbles, I felt like plunging my entire body into a giant bowl of salad. I suggest serving in thin, dainty slices. It would be a perfect recipe to freestyle a bit – maybe adding pistachios for colour, or replacing the bran biscuits with gingernuts for a more pronounced ginger flavour.
21 years old, ALMOST finished my fine arts degree, either covered in paint or flour (or both), lover of all things foodie, lives to feed the masses, great way with words....shall I go on or have I said enough? Choose me and make my lovely wee day!
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ReplyDeleteI love to join!! I have been baking various Kiwi recipes since I moved here last year. I try for a new recipe every weekend. Gosh, I love Kiwi baking, they are yummilicious and more importantly they are easy and quick!! No more baking-phobia for me :-)
I've been looking for this book to add in my recipe book collection. Good luck to me.
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zeti,
Leigh, Warkworth