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Craft/ food story Developer, Writer & Photographer for Newspapers & Magazines. first Book on Quilts out March 2015 with @Interweave All images and content belong to Siobhan Rogers, if you would like to use my images please email me.

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Happy Days







I have JUST finished a huge huge quilt with a wicked quick deadline.... cue the bath soak for my sore neck and shoulders.


To celebrate and help me buy/ make some new things I thought I would do a flash sale on my website

link to the left of my blog

50% off almost everything! 
(excludes my pre sale book and little patterns)



Some things you will come across in the sale 

- very cool big Pom Pom trim 

- Leather zipper clutches 

and of course

- Some Quilts


Happy Shopping

Siobhan Xx



Monday, July 6, 2015

Roll up roll up



I'm looking for brands and shops that fit my style and ethos - If you think that thats you
email me





email me siobhan at hillgallery dot com dot au

Xx Siobhan Rogers

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Bananas



This Banana loaf has been a regular in our house for many many years, I might have even blogged about it here before.... I cant remember!

I instagramed a picture recently and I had a few requests for the recipe - so here it is.


Banana Loaf

I use a 10 X 20 cm loaf tin - you could bake it any size or shape you like. My batter usually comes up to about an 1/2 an *inch below the top of the tin when I pour it in.
*its the quilter in me - I like using inches

Grease the cake tin with a little butter

Pre heat oven to 170c Fan forced


Ingredients & Method

3 medium very ripe bananas mashed 
1 cup raw sugar
1 tsp cinnamon powder
80g butter melted
1/2 tsp vanilla paste
2 large eggs
3/4 cup milk

mix all the above ingredients until well combined.

add in

2 1/4 cups plain flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
200g block of dark chocolate roughly chopped into big chunks 

mix until just combined

pour/ scrape into the prepared loaf tin and sprinkle about a tablespoon or so of extra raw sugar onto the top of the cake batter in the tin


bake for 1 hour - checking with a wooden skewer that the middle is cooked.

Turn the cake out of the loaf tin whilst still hot and let the cake cool on a wire rack.

Yummiest eaten still warm and fresh or sliced and toasted the next day.
















I also had a go at making homemade Nutella.

Funnily I cant actually remember how I made it..... 

I vaguely remember that the recipe I found called for 2 cups of roasted hazelnuts, 1 cup cocoa, 1 cup icing sugar and a little vegetable oil until you get the right consistency. All whizzed together in the food processor.

 It tasted a little lacking - I added in half a block of dark chocolate and we were in business. 

I really need to mess around a little more to get the recipe right, but definitely worth a go and something for the kids to try. 

I would have liked to add coconut oil instead of vegetable oil..... but the kids in our family aren't coconut fans (insert sad face because I LOVE coconut)and I suppose it then wouldn't be Nutella but a hazelnut chocolate & coconut spread.



Let me know how you go with the cake or any tried and tested Nutella recipes you may have

Xx Siobhan 




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