That’s what Peter calls this chocolate cake recipe. He makes a pretty good cake, does Pete.
Quick and Dirty could also describe these recipe pages I’m making. These are no scrapbook pages, works of art, laboured over many long hours.They take about half an hour each (at the most) and I would like them to have a “banged together in a hurry” feel.
In answer to your questions about the last page and the butterfly post, I used a “Whale of a Punch” (that’s the brand!) that cost about $24 at a local scrapbooking shop. The wings are about 1 3/4″ across and they are punched out of a magazine.
The recipe page is squares of envelopes (from our office mail) just glued down with a few of my left-over butterflies glued on top and the recipe hand-written over that. I quite like to write sideways because it makes my writing look better!
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March 20, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Catie
This is really a lovely idea and your work is hardly “banged together” but quite good looking.
March 20, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Dy
this is a seriously brilliant idea and what you’ve done so far looks fabulous!
March 20, 2008 at 7:07 pm
meggie
That really looks like a treasure of a book! My daughter & I were just discussing the fact that homemade was almost a lot art.
I have faith it will live on.
March 21, 2008 at 12:15 am
Melinda
I’m going to need this recipe. NOW. I can’t read it on the angle. Yeah, yeah, its all artsy cool (love the handwriting and the scrapping techniques) but I NEED THE RECIPE. Not that I have PMS and a serious chocolate craving or anything.
March 21, 2008 at 12:32 am
pricklypearbloom
I liiiiiiiiiiiike this one.
March 21, 2008 at 6:46 am
dinahmow
Hmm…I still have an ancient Edmonds recipe book, but its pages are tearing away from the Spirax binding.They are also impossibly grotty fromyears of sticky fingers! So maybe I should re-write the favourites and make a “new” artist book…
Oh! In reply to your reply to my Thomas Murphy comment…he probably will Google;after all, he did it to grab attention! Male vanity an’all.
March 21, 2008 at 8:40 am
Isabelle
Yes, I too have recipes penned by dead hands, mainly my mother-in-law’s. Your books look lovely.
No, don’t know your Footrot cartoon (doesn’t sound THAT appealing) but glad that the driving badger will feel at home in NZ.
March 21, 2008 at 9:11 am
h&b
A quick and dirty cake seems obscene somehow and makes me want to fan myself, while blushing red and looking coy.
Thanks for your offer, BTW. But I took my credit card for a walk online - glad to see I bought the right one then :p
March 22, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Fairlie
You do realise this book is going to be such a work of art by the time you have finished that you are going to be duty-bound to publish it?
March 23, 2008 at 11:25 am
ivyarts
These pages look as good as the recipes sound. Yummy.