I love that recipe too Poppit. Yummy served warm with custard :qfrog: Have you tried freezing it? She says you can, but I can't imagine it defrosting all that well?

Yip froze last season and defrosted fine. HAve both the cakes I made in the last couple of days in the freezer Last nights batch of muffins packed to take away with us today

Oh cool, good to know thanks! I love how all her recipes are so huge Makes it easy if you're making a meal for someone else, to just keep half for yourselves and give the other half away.

Poppit, I love that vanilla plum cake recipe. Always delish and we use all sorts of fruit in it.

The slow baked pork and apricot recipe is really good (from second book I think).

Have made choc eclairs a lot over summer too using her choux pastry recipe and the ganache and they have been super easy and delish!

GOing to make sticky buns for DD2s birthday end of this month. might have to try the sachets of yeast and usually use the jars. I find it much better to heat the milk a bit and slowly add the yeast so it doesn't clump and stir it for much longer than she says.

We've made the vanilla cake recipe as cupcakes and frozen them and they defrost fab.

Ohhhh I'm so I just won her latest book "Free Range in the City"

I've been eying it up since it came out and recently recieved my library copy and there are sooo many scrummy things in there!!!

Mmm I loooove choc eclairs, have resisted making hers though as I just know I would eat them all

How did you go with the sachets of yeast??

Let us know what you make from the new book RMS I must dust it off and try some more things.

I made Caramalised Onions from TFRC last week, which I have since used in a quiche and with marinated steak, mushrooms, courgetter and feta on ciabatta buns Also made her Crumble Topping, froze half of it, but I haven't actually used any of it yet At least it keeps for 4 weeks in the fridge

DD2 LOVES her caramelised onions. She would eat and eat them (and boy can you tell the next day on her breath lol). I tend to serve them with steak or sausages.

HAven't tried the sachets yet. Didn't end up making for birthday and I'm dieting now so don't want the temptation. In a couple of weeks I might allow myself a few

Fair enough Wuz, I'm in the same boat with the dieting. DH tried the crumble topping tonight with fresh peach. Said it was yum. Going to friends tomorrow night for a bbq so going to make the Blueberry Crumble cake for dessert

The blueberry crumble cake was a hit! I tried a tiny wee sliver

I also made her Thai Pork Sticks (except with beef mince) to take to the bbq. They were super yum, will be doing those again. From her Busy Lives book.

Made the Baked Ricotta and Apricot Cheesecakes tonight. Very nice. Worked out the calories and only about 260cals per serve (we halved recipe which was more than enough for 4 ramekins) - for those doing MFP

Thanks Wuz, I saw your comment on MFP, great to know!

So I learnt something today about the cinnamon scrolls!

Mine never look like hers - always a bit rough around the edges uneven and not realy round!!

Well today I thought I'm going to give them a gentle squish down when they were in the baking tray and now they look exactly like the picture - round and perfect!

Totally stoked!

God my munm has got the harvest tomatoe sauce recipe down pat Just the right amount of chilli and fresh basil and lovely sweet ripe tomatoes!!!
Just had it for dinner and added some smoked chicken and served on top of fresh pasta - sooooooo good!!!

ooh that sounds divine SIA! I never thought to try it with some smoked chicken......adding that to the meal plan!

I notice tomatoes seem pretty cheap ATM. I might make some up.

Its delicious with meatballs too.

It surely is delicious with meatballs!!

Mum just got some cheap packs of smaller tomatoes (normally tries to get the beefsteak ones but no one around here seem to have any in last few weeks!) at one of the fruit and vege places - so got 2 packs of about 20 tomatoes each for $3.

A local place was offering pick your own tomatoes for $1.50 per kg last weekend. Should have checked if it was on this weekend, I forgot!

Our local fruitworld often has older tomatoes really cheap at this time of year