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. […]
Tag: homemade
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 […]
Christmas gifts / Handmade / Homemade / Knitting / Letter writing / Sewing
Christmas Crafting
Now that the madness of Christmas has subsided and all of the gifts have been opened, I thought I would share with you some of the gifts I made and gave in 2018. I had […]
Oh Christmas Tree
Christmas is my favourite holiday and on the 1st December, without fail, I put up the Christmas Tree. I have a wee ritual of eating mince pies and watching a Christmas Movie, normally Love Actually […]
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 […]
Winter Woolly Delights
Now that we are in the proper throes of winter, I can indulge my 2 favourite winter pass times. Numero Uno is snuggling up next to the roaring fire with a good book and coming […]
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Local / Love food hate waste / Preserving / Recipes / Sustainability
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 […]