One of Australia’s most successful and endearingly loved magazines is Better Homes and Gardens. With a circulation of over 300,000/month, it has an extremely loyal following. While the magazine is successful enough to stand on its own merits, it is certainly benefiting and remaining in the spotlight from the outstanding success of the Better Homes […]
Archives for September 2015
How to Make a Bus Cake with a Stiletto Shoe
September 25, 2015 By 34 Comments
When Arabella chose, ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert‘ as the theme for her 21st birthday party I knew I’d need to make an appropriate cake and thought about what best symbolised the movie/musical. The realisation came upon me that central to the movie is the bus named ‘Priscilla’ with its giant sparkling stiletto perched precariously […]
A 21st Birthday Party
September 23, 2015 By 50 Comments
Here at Hotly Spiced Headquarters we are all moving just a little bit slowly as we recover from Miss Arabella’s 21st birthday party. This year, a low-budget Australian film that was shot in just three weeks, then became an international success and then a long-running musical on Broadway, also celebrates its 21st birthday. Thinking that […]
Iced VoVo Biscuits
September 17, 2015 By 37 Comments
If there’s ever a biscuit that brings out nostalgic feelings in an Aussie, it’s the Iced VoVo. Yes, the other one on the nostalgia list is the Tim Tam but for today, we’re talking about Iced VoVos. Back in my school days, there were a lot of lunch boxes that contained Iced VoVos and if […]
Pasta with Asparagus and Bacon
September 15, 2015 By 36 Comments
Last week I was up at the swim centre watching the little guy pound up and down the black line as usual. While he did his laps I was thinking about the meal I was going to cook for dinner. And I was totally prepared and organised as I knew I had an organic free-range […]
Mini Chicken and Leek Pies
September 13, 2015 By 32 Comments
You will be pleased to know I did manage a front row seat at the recent concert where the little guy sang Danny Boy. How I managed it was miraculous. I arrived 40-minutes early and there were a few other anxious mothers waiting outside the doors. One of them, (the doctor who raced in the […]
Sausage Rolls with Homemade Sauce
September 11, 2015 By 32 Comments
Short post. No time to scratch. But I’ll just take a few minutes to fill you in on why I’m running around like a blue-arsed fly. The day started early. Alfie needed to be at school an hour earlier than normal due to being bussed off to an all-day choir rehearsal for a concert he’s […]
Hydro Majestic High Tea
September 8, 2015 By 28 Comments
Most people who grew up in Sydney and are from my generation will have memories of visiting the very pink Hydro Majestic Hotel in Medlow Bath in the Blue Mountains. Perhaps as early as 1901, Mark Foy, of Mark Foy’s Department Stores, sold shares in his business to finance what was to become Australia’s first […]
In My Kitchen, September 2015
September 6, 2015 By 29 Comments
While Spring so far has been much colder than I would like, there’s plenty going on in my kitchen to keep my mind off the weather. In my kitchen I have a birthday cake I made for a very special boy. He loves the Sydney Swans so I made in a cake in the team’s […]
Asparagus and Poached Eggs on Toast
September 3, 2015 By 34 Comments
With the exclusion of the Gen Y’s who are reading my blog, would it be fair to say Gen Y’s are useless? They’re not stupid as they’re perfectly capable of getting amazing results for their final school exams, and they walk right on into amazing universities, and they hold down jobs. They can even converse […]
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