Fiona McIntosh - Author

I’ve set up a new facebook group called Bake With Me. This is a friendly, supportive page with 45 regular home bakers who share recipes, laugh at failures together, cheer for the triumphs and generally offer fun and friendship through baking. We come from all walks of life. If you’re on facebook, join us. Everyone…

Do yourself a favour. If you’re a home cook who loves to bake, you could do so much worse than treat yourself to Belinda Jeffery’s ‘Mix & Bake’. Everything is explained, loads of great tips and the recipes I’ve found to be failsafe…always elegant but striving for simplicity. They’re country, they’re scrumptious and they’re grounded…

Gavriel Kay’s Tigana BY:
FIONA MCINTOSH From:
The Australian June 02, A 10th anniversary edition of Guy Gavriel Kay’s 1990 novel Tigana. Source: Supplied MY FAVOURITE NOVEL FROM its opening sentence – a long one, too – I sensed I was embarking on a special journey with Tigana, a fantasy novel by French Canadian author Guy Gavriel…

This is a very easy recipe. I used 375g of redcurrant – or 3 small punnets. They’re expensive but this will make you two jars as you can see. The only other ingredient you need is 375g of sugar. I used caster and I warmed it in the oven for a short while. Have a…

I promised to publish this because it is just so good. The recipe is by David Lebovitz, which I have slightly adapted. I have made it several times and can assure it is a winner. INGREDIENTS: 1.5 cups whole milk 3/4 cup sugar (I used golden) 1.5 cups whole coffee beans small pinch salt 1.5…

Pleased to tell you, as I stare at the stunningly beautiful roses that Adelaide gardens are giving us right now, that I have delivered the first draft of my new fantasy to Voyager worldwide and my editor in Australia sounds extremely happy with the story. Obviously lots of hard yards yet to travel with the…

My next saga is set in France with WWll as the backdrop. I’m delighted to say that this morning I sent off the last chunk of the copy edit to my editor at Penguin Books Australia, which means we are now moving into the final straight, galloping toward our publication date of April 1, 2012….