mich's dishes - feeding your baking addiction with my own. mmm, delicious.

Chicken pot chicken pot chicken pot piiiie!

2010-09-27T18:01:00.000+10:00

Miss me? Worried about me? Angry at me for the desertion? Just the first two? Aw, how sweet… If you’re mainly just the last one though, here, look at these eggs, no one can look at these eggs and harbour ill feelings, smiley face eggs make ill feelings inharbourable. And that right there is a fact. And a made up word. (Interesting side note: this egg face was 100%

'Allo Almond!

2010-03-28T12:12:00.005+11:00

Only recently have I begun to really appreciate the whole "sweet and salty" thing. I'm not at the bacon lolly stage of the appreciation process, I'm not sure if I ever will be, but I'm definitely moving in the right direction (my diabetes prone genes aren't quite so enthused but they don't get a vote. Just as I'm sure my Nan's diabetes will be passed down to me, I know that her (unintentional)

Bananarama

2010-02-03T00:02:00.000+11:00

"Try to use very ripe bananas for a sweeter, richer cake." Yes Hummingbird Bakery, I know, I've read the countless recipes banging on about these rotten narnies, it just took a little bit of work to get around my whole silly "not consuming rotten food" thing. Sure, it's just fruit that is so old it couldn't legally be sold to consumers, pssht, what was I worried about again? Well anyway, after

Chahan Induced Nostalgia

2010-01-14T21:45:00.006+11:00

On the 20th of December it was exactly one year since I left Japan. It's a bit sad not being able to think "this time last year I was..." I've had to move onto "this time two years ago..." Which can be weird, I cant believe it was so long ago, all the memories still feel so recent. One of the hardest things is seeing what my friends still in Japan are up to, statuses from friends all over Japan

Queen of Kitchens, Thy Name is Nigella.

2010-01-11T22:20:00.014+11:00

Forgive me Nigella for I have sinned. The first time I met you (ie saw you on an ad for tea) I thought you were snobby and full of yourself, swanning round, smirking about drinking tea in bed. But oh how I was mistaken, the shame I feel for ever judging you is immense. I now harbour no ill feelings towards you, only feelings of wanting to be you. I know it was Austar that decided to put on a

My Little Gingerbread Army

2009-12-11T23:32:00.006+11:00

Timeline of Michelle's transition into the Christmas spirit: 24th of October - Walking through Big W exclaiming "Oh come ON, its not even my BIRTHDAY yet!" every time I walk past Christmas decorations. 13th of November - Late night shopping in the city, shaking my head in disbelief at the groups of carollers singing around the place. Followed by me telling everyone I spoke with over the next

Accidental Absences and Macadamia Mania

2009-11-08T00:11:00.003+11:00

Why hello! If you are reading this, thankyou for coming back to check on me, even though I have been lame and haven't given you any fun food to look at in a while. If you aren't reading this, then, um, woah... I just blew my own mind. So, did my absence make your heart grow fonder? If it just filled you with annoyance at my laziness then i plead with you to forgive me, please, ill even show you

Aoli Adventures.

2009-10-15T15:43:00.003+11:00

Aoli and chips. I lived for over 23 years without knowing what this tasted like, and now I know that they were wasted years. The only problem with the stuff is it changes everywhere you go. Cheaper places tend to taste like minced garlic from a jar mixed with mayonnaise, which while edible is not the best. I found some at the supermarket but it had a weird plastic-y taste to it, not very cool. I

A Fiesta of Paella, followed by a Siesta in a Sombrero.

2009-10-11T15:02:00.001+11:00

Before I started this site I spent about a week trying to think of a name for it. I made lists and tried them out on my mum and sister. Some of the names were based around cupcakes and im so glad none of them were successful in the end. A site purely dedicated to cupcakes never would have allowed me to share this amazing recipe with you all, and that would be downright silly. This chicken paella

Now we're baking with yeast!

2009-10-07T15:46:00.007+11:00

You know how a few posts ago i was going on about how i don't BAKE bake, like, i have no patience for bread baking and all that? Well, turns out my curiosity has overpowered my laziness. And now I'm here to tell you that while curiosity didn't kill any cats, it definitely resulted in some meeeean monkeybread. "Monkeybread?!" i hear you fellow Australians say, what the heck is monkeybread??" Well

The markets and me.

2009-09-30T00:42:00.000+10:00

Ive mentioned a few times how i had my own market stall now, and im sure, there are people suffering from this, suffering from curiosity! I know, its mad and exciting and its just plain wrong that ive kept it from you all for this long. Well im here today to tell you that you need wait no more, its market stall time. (much like hammer time but with tighter pants). A couple of times this year

For when it's too late to bake.

2009-09-23T20:03:00.011+10:00

One night I was up late, everyone else was in bed, and i got this massive urge to make something. I knew it was too late for baking, something about baking after midnight, it just doesn't seem quite right. I was looking at this website called Peanut Butter Boy and going through his astoundingly large collection of peanut butter recipes. I heart peanut butter, so yeah, this is my kind of site. I

Savoury? More like flavoury!

2009-09-21T23:06:00.013+10:00

When i say im a bake-aholic, i really mean that im a sweets bake-aholic. I read bread recipes and go 'eh, all that effort, and i still have to put something on it to taste good?' I think the closest i ever came to real savoury baking was the cheese and vegemite scrolls i made once. they were good, but they had nothing on bakers delight cheddermite scrolls so i abandoned savoury baking for another

Coffeeshop failure, pineapple flower success!

2009-09-19T17:26:00.010+10:00

A little while ago I was asked by a coffeeshop owner to bake some of my cupcakes for them so they could see if they wanted to buy them off me and sell them in their store. At this point i think i was very lucky that i didnt widdle myself on the spot. Ive been so bored and have wanted to bake, but not eat all the baking, so i figured this would be perfect! I went into the shop with a list of

jersey caramel cookies and the fimfam, a lovely mix.

2009-09-19T16:26:00.008+10:00

A few months ago my mum found this recipe in the sunday paper by donna hay, it seems kind of un-donna-ish; jersey caramels dont scream class to me but hey, im not classy and am in no place to judge donna so i cut it out and saved it. I wasnt just saving it for any time though, i knew that if i baked this and my cousin wasnt around to eat them all, well, he might just never let me see his

oreos and cheesecake and 21st birthdays, oh my!

2009-09-18T12:52:00.008+10:00

So the other day was my sister’s boyfriend’s 21st. I’d already bought him an early birthday present in August (a 10 bucka copy of hotrod) but decided it wasn’t quite enough so I thought i’d give him the gift of cheesecake, martha stewart style. I got martha stewart’s ‘cupcake’ book a little while ago and have been using every excuse possible to bake the hell out of that book, its awesome, i want

baking: my blessing, and my curse. my super delicious curse.

2009-09-17T12:38:00.002+10:00

So many nice, non fattening, portable hobbies out there. I look at those people on the bus, doing their Sudoku, looking all content and relaxed, all those people of an afternoon going for a run. Hobbies you can do almost anywhere, almost anytime. I was even one of those people once, I gave knitting a go, I would knit of an evening while watching telly, while talking with my roommates. It made me