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2
May
2011
Masterchef Australia 2011.
Dear Bake & Bloom readers,
If you have seen the promo ad , the 3 minute long sneak peek or the first episode of Masterchef Australia 2011, then you may have noticed a familiar face. Yes, It is Shannon Smyth from Bake & Bloom!!!
photo sourced from Masterchef website
On behalf of Shannon, I would like to inform you all that she will be absent from this blog temporarily and will not be able to discuss or mention her involvement in Masterchef Australia until the final episode airs on TV. In the mean time, on behalf of Shannon, I’d like to thank you all for visiting and add that you’re more than welcome to leave comments below to show her your support.
Sincerely,
Shane, AKA- Mr Bake & Bloom.
14
Dec
2010
Thank You- Over & out for now.
Dear Readers,
I am writing today to tell you, for now at least I will no longer be blogging on Bake & Bloom.
I am sure any Bride to be will tell you it is a big task to plan a wedding, and l have a lot of commitments to meet in my personal life at the moment including my veggie garden which is now huge! Changing jobs & finally getting really into floristry & trying to be more active in my family life which I have neglected for for quite a while now. Finding the time to commit to make this blog all it should be has become fairly difficult.
I would like to thank each & every person that has ever stopped by to say Hi or read a recipe, and especially my regular loyal readers & friends.
In particular I would like to thank my friends Mel (From Bread n’ Sniff It) & Christie (From Fig & Cherry) for making me really feel like a part of of the blogging family. You’re both a total inspiration to me!
Rest assured I will be back some time next year.
So for now my friends, goodbye. Keep cooking & know that I love you all. Thanks for making my life for the last year & a half a little sweeter & I am sure we will speak again soon!
xoxo Shannon Smyth
5
Oct
2010
The Art of Cleaning Ones Pantry in 6 (Hideous) Hours!!
This is the dream
Have you ever opened your pantry to look for something & quickly thereafter decided it isn’t worth the effort? I have been doing this for the last 4 years. Instead of looking I will just go to the market & buy more of whatever I was looking for. Even when we moved house I decided it would be far too traumatic to actually look inside containers or clean anything.
Such laziness has resulted in dozens of unsorted health food store bags full of nuts, cocoa, salt, assorted flours. Hundreds of random spice packets, loose tea, half empty bags of rice. You name it I have it hidden away in the dank corners of my pantry.
It was the perfect system, until a bucketing wet weekend meant I was too afraid to drive my dodgy little hatchback to the only store in my area that stocks gelatin sheets rather than the awful powdered kind. I knew they were in there somewhere.
This was a search & rescue mission.
3
Sep
2010
Could these be Australia’s Worst Macarons?
I realise I am no authority in these things. I have never had a genuine Parisian macaron from Laduree or the genius Pierre Hermes. But I confess myself stunned, stupefied & disappointed.
There was such promise when Shane & I were walking around Canberra, nosing around for the best places to eat when I stumbled upon a small charming patisserie Croissant D’Or. Had I blinked I would have missed it entirely.
31
Aug
2010
Best freakin’ vacation – Ever!
There was snowboarding, bike-riding, a romantic picnic & then there was the sweetest proposal ever uttered.
“Marry me honey”
Shane & I are getting hitched!
