the best fruitcake ever!

30Apr09

I have made the best fruitcake in the world, got it right – well, nearly right, see below – first time. But then, it is an easy recipe. And it is great for diabetics, no added sugar, you don’t need it with all the fruit that is in it (there is fructose there, of course). [...]

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Tags: baking, cake, cake recipe for diabetics, cooking, diabetics, easy cooking, fruitcake, type 2 diabetics

Adam becomes a cook

27Apr09

When I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes late last year, one of the first things I did was become a member of Diabetes Australia , the primary institution here for collating research, funding diabetes management programs and providing information. The fact that there were supplying a free blood glucose level monitoring device to new [...]

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Tags: cooking, diabetes, eating well, health, healthy food, managing diabetes, pancakes, pikelets, recipe, type 2 diabetes

making my Book of Trees

13Apr09

One of my posts from last year talked about how I prefer to use Adobe InDesign to create a photo-book, rather than online resources. Well, that made me think of actually doing one, about trees, so that’s what I am doing now.
A bit of other stuff has been happening, that’s why it has taken me [...]

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Tags: Adobe InDesign, desktop publishing, fun, making a book, photobook, publishing, self-publishing, trees, using my photos