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Paleo and vegan carrot dip
Paleo and vegan carrot dip Stay with me I haven’t totally changed my eating habits over night. I’m not one to latch on to the latest craze diet, in fact I’m quite against them in general. My idea of a...
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Zucchini and olive hommus – paleo, vegan, gluten-free
Zucchini and olive hommus I was deliberating over which dip to buy when an older lady asked for assistance. ‘Would you mind helping me?’ she asked. ‘Of course not, how can I help?’ She’d forgotten her...
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Nigella’s chocolate olive oil cake
Nigella’s chocolate olive oil cake It was a tough decision trying to pick a recipe for such a momentous occasion as my grandma’s 95th Birthday. She is the woman from whom I got my sweet tooth (I...
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The best ever chocolate mud cake
The best ever chocolate mud cake I know I know, another chocolate cake but before you close the page close your eyes. Actually open your eyes and read this then close your eyes and imagine this. You...
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Passionfruit and lime cocktail cookies
Passionfruit and lime cocktail cookies Where do ideas come from? I like to think of myself as pretty creative. Sometimes I surprise myself with the ideas that I come up with but there’s not really a...
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Lime & macadamia Pinata cake – Happy Birthday to me!
Lime & macadamia pinata cake For at least a week I had the same after work routine. Come home, change into something more comfortable then mix up another batch of flour and water and carefully...
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Chocolate swirl Easter cake
I should have written this yesterday. If I had written it yesterday I could have told you that I was sitting at the table at mum and dad’s place looking out at the ocean, feeling the warmth of the sun...
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Easter and mum’s fancy potato bake
I can’t remember the last time the weather looked as good as this on Easter Sunday. I know it’s a bad habit but I check my phone when I wake up, perusing all my social networks and clearing my junk...
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Chocolate honey jumbles
I’m not home today I’m visiting my lovely friend Chris at The Cafe Sucre Farine. You can find the recipe for these choc-ginger pillows of deliciousness aka chocolate honey jumbles at Chris’s house. If...
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Spanish tortilla with sweet potato
We’re leaving Morocco today and hitting the high seas. Head to the port at Tangir, in the north of Morocco, jump on the ‘fast ferry’ and 2 hours later you will find yourself in the land of senoritas...
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Shredded beef sliders
‘I don’t care what mine looks like just please…. give me some food!’ To some, this may seem demanding and rude but sometimes in my house it’s acceptable. On this particular occasion, Will had been at...
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A pretty pink first Birthday party
Have you ever seen such a magnificent spread? I haven’t been to many first Birthday parties but I think this may be the prettiest I will ever see. I arrived an hour an a half before the party was to...
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No-bake coconut macadamia biscuits with chocolate icing
Chewy, no-bake biscuits crusted with coconut and topped with a smooth, rich, chocolate ganache finished with a dusting of desiccated coconut. Sounds mouth-watering doesn’t it? It sounds like something...
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Hummingbird cake with lemon cream cheese icing
I heard something horrifying on the news last night. Along with all the other terrible stories there was one about the cost of raising a child. The report said that from birth to age 24, it will cost...
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Mexican wedding cakes
My research to discover the origins of the name of these little sweet treats has been rather futile. Apparently they’re nearly identical to Russian Tea Cakes and so some say, they were just re-named...
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Orange and hazelnut kisses
I’m back! It was an extraordinarily long flight home with a nice little 3 hour detour via Noumea thanks to the fog in Brisbane but we’re home. We had a fantastically wonderful time but I have to say,...
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Chocolate freckle biscuits
Very very exciting news. Ok it’s really only exciting to me but I unpacked the last box on the weekend. It was the one with all the cookbooks that didn’t fit in the cupboard above the fridge (how did...
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White chocolate mud cake with raspberry buttercream
I know I may have mentioned it once or twice (or a thousand) times before but I am a Birthday cake addict. I’m not fussy either. It doesn’t have to be my Birthday, I just love Birthday cake. I love...
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Lemon and ginger shortbread
Surprise surprise look what I’ve got for you today… another lemon recipe! Last time I posed the question of what should I bake next with my luscious lemons, the lovely Katy Potaty suggested lemon and...
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Double chocolate walnut biscuits
When I made brown sugar walnut biscuits, Will announced that they were the best biscuits he’d ever had. Ever since, whenever I ask him what sort of cookies I should re-stock the jar with, they are his...
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