Apricot and Almond no knead bread
I had another go at making the Cranberry Walnut bread recipe that I made a couple of weeks ago (this post) but this time I made it with apricots and almonds in place of the […]
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Bran Muffins 3 ways
A few weeks ago one of our local Op shops had a table full of free books out the front. I grabbed a copy of The best of Alison Holst and as I was having […]
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Zucchini Tomato Sauce
The next chapter in the Zucchini glut saga is making some zucchini tomato sauce. I have loosely based this on Nicola Galloway’s Roasted tomato and courgette harvest sauce recipe. I used tinned tomatoes as our […]
Easy and delicious Foccacia bread
I found a delicious and easy no knead foccacia recipe on Pinterest the other day and I have made this twice now. I made a couple of tweaks to the recipe the second time I […]
Blueberry, Ginger and Walnut bread
I like a good dutch oven bread recipe. No kneading, leave it to rise overnight and bake it the next day. I found this Cranberry Walnut no knead bread recipe on Pinterest the other day […]
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Zucchini glut!
We are currently experiencing a zucchini glut in our garden and in desperation I turned to Google for some ideas to use them up. I had already made this cake (it was delicious by the […]
You can improve on a good thing
I have a recipe for chocolate chip biscuits that my mum used to make for us when we were little. I have made it so many times that I know the recipe off by heart. […]
Spicy Jalapeno Hummus
I have been a bit slack lately and have been buying hummus from the grocery store rather than making my own. I was cleaning up all of the bits of the paper stuck to the […]
Easy Risotto Recipe
I am going to give you the long story of how I came to make this risotto. We order our groceries online and get them delivered and last Friday when they arrived, there was an […]
Cheese roll filling – aka Cheese “Crack”
One of the things we got given for Christmas was a jar of Cheese roll filling. For those of you not familiar with what a cheese roll is, it is a slice of white bread, […]