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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Sunflowers
Welcome to the weekend! Today I thought I would share with you some photos of the sunflowers that are giving us a beautiful show in the garden at the moment. This is the second batch […]
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Sewing Update – Burnside Bibs
Every so often, I find a sewing pattern that is so good, I end up making multiple garments of the same pattern. Burnside Bibs by Sew House Seven is my latest fav make. I have […]
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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 […]
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Mini Christmas stockings
You might be forgiven for thinking this is a post about some stockings I made for Christmas 2022. I was super organised during the holidays and made these for gifts for Christmas 2023! I have […]
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Calendar pages to envelopes
While I was visiting my friend in Christchurch, she gave me some old calendars to recycle. She had given me some a couple of years ago and I made envelopes out of them as we […]
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T-shirt to cushion transformation
I popped down to Christchurch the weekend before Christmas to visit my oldest friend who had a significant birthday on Christmas Day. We have been friends since we were 11 when we became penpals, she […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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