Everything Peanut Butter
Fix and Fogg have a new peanut butter flavour out. They are calling it Everything butter and it has peanuts, hemp seeds, almonds, pumpkin seeds. sunflower seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds and flax seeds in it. […]
Category: Recipes
Menu Planning
I have been menu planning for a while now, using the method of looking in the cupboards/fridge/freezer on a Sunday night to see what needs to be used up and writing up the menu plan […]
Homemade Creamy Hummus
While I was on holiday recently I discovered a new brand of hummus which was so delicious and creamy, I was compelled to try and recreate it at home. I had tried making hummus in […]
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 […]