Fennel and Couscous Salad
This salad came about from a stuffing recipe for chicken, a salad to go with the chicken and a salad recipe I found online when I was looking for instructions on how to cook giant […]
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Easy Pickled Chillies
Our chilli plants are producing fruit in abundance at the moment and I harvested a whole bunch more ripe ones this morning. We have always had great success growing chillies in our garden and since […]
Peanut Butter flavours experiment
This experiment came about from a conversation we had over lunch at work one day. I have made my own peanut butter for a while now (recipe here) and was inspired to try some different […]
Harvest Plum Sauce
We went up to Hawkes Bay to see the family for Christmas and Mum’s plum trees are laden with fruit at the moment so I filled a bag to bring home. Mum reminded me that […]
Ginger Biscuits
Gosh it has been a while since I dropped in for a chat. I have been busy studying and had my exam today, so to celebrate, I made some of these cookies when I got […]
Eggy bread and tomato salad
I wasn’t sure what to call this thing I invented for lunch today, but it was delicious! This came about from a piece of bread I had kicking round in the freezer for a while. […]
DIY Walnut Butter
A couple of weeks ago I was the lucky recipient of a huge bag of walnuts, given to me by a friends Mum who has a big old walnut tree on their property in Hawkes […]
Lemon Cookies
I have an abundance of lemons at the moment so had a play round with my Chocolate Chip cookie recipe and came up with these deliciously crunchy lemon cookies. They spread quite a bit so […]
Quick and easy porridge
Everyone has their favourite way to make porridge and I thought I would share mine with you. It takes 5 mins to make and is a delicious and hearty breakfast. Place 1/2 cup of rolled […]
Oh My Muesli!
I am trying to cut some sugar out of my diet and decided to have a play around with my muesli recipe and see if it would work without the oil and sugar. Oh my […]