Meet Daphne, a 1974 Citroën D Special that I drove home from Adelaide on the weekend. Rather than tell you all about it here, may I suggest that you pop over to my new blog dedicated to car worship at goddessonahwy.wordpress.com?
Photographed enroute at Yumali, a scarcely-one-horse town on the highway south of Tailem Bend.
Fujifilm X30; mild edits applied in Snapseed app.
Whatever I do, I generally find the easy way to do it. It’s a matter of personal economy – even when I have plenty of time, I still prefer the easiest method. This is never truer than when I’m in the kitchen, and I have a favourite saying that I’d rather read a book than cook. Reading about cooking is just asking for trouble, and often a delicious-sounding recipe seems much too tiresome to even begin.
So here’s a tip from me: if you’re lazy but you really want to bake, boil it. What I mean is, if I’m baking a cake, slice, biscuits, whatever, regardless of the instructions given I always use the saucepan method to melt the butter/oil together with sugars, spices and any dried fruit then let it cool a minute before adding an egg if required, then stir in the dry mix – usually plain flour, sometimes with ground nuts, and any raising agent. Not only is it fuss free (no rubbing-in! no mixers!), there’s only one saucepan to clean. Awesome, right?
Today I wanted to make my favourite Dutch cookies, Speculaas; but who can be bothered with rubbing in butter, then chilling the dough, before wrangling it into windmill shapes? Not me. So I found a recipe I liked the sound of, and adapted it to the saucepan method, and it worked really well.
Here’s how I did it:
Lazy Baker’s Speculaas, drop-cookie style
I bake in a slow-combustion oven beneath my wood fire, and the temperature varies quite a bit – it just means the baking takes more or less time.
*While I did set out to write a photography blog, there’s nothing that says it can’t sometimes be a cooking / lifestyle / reviews blog sometimes too!
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