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Nana's Recipe Drawer
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This blog is a side-effect of a clean out of Nana's recipe drawer - an almost metre-deep cave filled to the brim with magazine cut-outs and handwritten recipes dating back to the late '60's. The recipes are being carefully typed up along with other family recipes to create a family cookbook. Consequently I am testing a lot of the older recipes to pay homage to Nana's culinary past - and photographing everything!
- Author: Kate
- Listed in: Food & Drink Recipes
- Tags: recipes food cooking 1970s retro food grandmother
Recent Posts
Two-tone lasagne (pics to come!)
Being Sunday, and with a little time up my sleeve, I decided to attempt my first lasagne. I hit the cookbooks and Tastespotting in search of a vegetarian lasagne that would fit the bill, but was disappointed with the samples I found. In the end, I fo...
Orphan's Christmas '08
My favourite dessert was this one - made by Ivan from a recipe I found online. This was the only Christmas leftover I didn't mind eating!Mango, Lychee & Passionfruit SaladServes 8 40 lychees, peeled, seeds removed (or 4 tins, drained)4 mangoes, c...
Gingerbread: Take 2
I'm stubborn when it comes to cooking and wasn't about to be beaten by something as simple as gingerbread... so the first thing I did when I woke up this morning was to make the liquid base. Then during our weekly trek to the supermarket a few hours ...
I really am my grandmother's grand-daughter
For my 21st birthday, Nana as always, took charge of baking the cake. The request was for 'the usual' - chocolate - which Nana could churn out whilst sleepwalking with both hands tied. I arrived home from Auckland (where I was studying) and a few ni...
A 50/50 success on the biscuit front
I bought some new kitchenalia this week - two cookie cutters (a dog bone and a foot), a rolling pin and some measuring cups - so I was looking for a new-old recipe to try them out on. I figured biscuits were the way to go, and found a recipe for Vani...
Banana-na Cake
Nana's a prolific banana cake baker. Every time I stayed at nana's she'd always have one sitting on the bench to be taken home to Auckland. Most of the time it made it back intact, but once or twice we'd get hungry on the way home and eat a slice. Wo...
