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…

This is a toasted muesli or crunchy granola. The lovely aspect of this recipe is that you can gunsling with it and make it suit your taste buds and preferences in terms of the nuts and the dried fruit that you include. Coconut is optional too but I think it adds a lovely toasty dimension….

These are simple and incredibly scrumptious and crumbly…and you probably already have everything you need in your pantry. Perfect with a pot of tea. Fun and easy to make. Enjoy. I’m now roadtesting a chocolate version. Will publish if they work for me. Biscuits 195g soft butter 65g icing sugar sifted vanilla extract qtr cup…

This recipe has been requested by a couple of you, so I’m happy to publish it here and with the kind permission of Belinda Jeffery….one of Australia’s celebrated professional cooks. It is taken from ‘The Country Cookbook’ – a fabulous read as much as a wonderful addition to your kitchen shelves. ….and so easy to…

I had the privilege of being given a book called Mix & Bake by its author, the very lovely Belinda Jeffery, who happens to be one of Australia’s finest cooks.  It’s a wonderful book to read, with beautiful photography, and all very honest, down to earth recipes.  Her tips and little aids are fantastic.  Anyway,…

I was invited to afternoon tea at our neighbours in Tasmania where we’ve living for a few months. I hadn’t been out – even for a coffee – for weeks and weeks and so it was something of a novelty to do my hair, pull on a dress and even slap on some make up….