celebrating two milestones with cupcakes…
Today is a pretty special day. Not only is my baby girl turning six, but the Dalai Lama is celebrating his 77th birthday and this here little blog is turning 2! I’m not going to get all sentimental… but lets just say it’s been great. Better than great in fact. When I first started this […]
jerk tempeh with coriander (cilantro) sauce recipe
It’s all too easy in this day and age to focus on the bad, sad and ugly reality of life that faces so many around the world. Obesity, diabetes, cancer and disease as well as genetically modified foods, additives and chemicals are catch phrases we are all too familiar with in the 21st century. But amongst all this sadness there […]
gluten-free apple berry pandowdy recipe
I awoke yesterday to a very distraught little girl pleading with me to let her stay home from school. “My tummy really, really hurts mum”, she said. There have been all sorts of nasty bugs doing the rounds lately and even though Ada has a bad habit of saying something hurts on a daily basis, for […]
keeping the bugs away, naturally
With all this rain we’ve been having over the last fortnight I’ve barely even looked at our garden. I have ran out to pick the odd lettuce or rocket leaf and we are starting to eat a few outer leaves of the kale, but I have to admit it’s been a tad too long since […]
chilli tofu recipe
It’s freezing today. I mean proper finger numbing, toe aching, shiver-inducing cold as cold can be. Perth is the craziest place of extremes, hot as hell in summer and then just as freezing as back home in NZ in the wintertime?! That’s why I enjoy spring and autumn so much, give me mild any day. […]
gluten-free chocolate almond cake recipe {Reine de Saba}
Cooking legend Julia Child would have been turning 100 on August 15th this year. For the past 6 weeks bloggers from around the world have been invited to cook recipes in her honour as part of JC100. Each week there’s been a different recipe from Mastering the Art of French Cooking to play with if […]
gluten-free lemon delicious pudding recipe
Citrus season is in full-swing in Perth and I’ve never seen such laden trees before moving over here! Back home in NZ our lemon tree used to take turns, you know… one year millions of fruit, the next, only a handful. But here, the trees seem to be full to branch-breaking point every year. We […]