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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

Peanut butter flavour experiment

Have you spied that Fix and Fogg have a new flavour out?  Of course I had to try to recreate it at home.  I haven’t tried their one but my version was pretty tasty so […]

Read More

Easy peasy soup

It’s cold and raining here today so I whipped up this delicious soup for lunch.  It was so easy and cheap,  I thought I would share.  You can make it vege by leaving out the […]

Read More

Lockdown pickles

My normal saturday ritual involves a visit to my local vege market to get our fruit and veges for the coming week.  Since we have been under lockdown the vege market has been closed.  We […]

Read More