vegetarian sushi recipe and tips…
So usually I only post recipes if I think I can add a new modern spin on a classic, or have come up with a combination I think it really amazing. But occasionally it’s quite nice to just highlight a dish that is perfect, just how it is. Sure, I went through a phase of […]
beetroot and aubergine pilau recipe
We eat rice in some form or other pretty much every day, whether it’s rice porridge for breakfast, rice milk smoothie, rice flour in baking, rice as a side or rice as the shining star. This dish is definitely the later. Rice forms the basis of this deceptively tasty dish, along with meltingly tender spiced aubergine (eggplant), […]
a few of my favourite things {feb 2012}
It’s been a big month so far in our house, so many changes. Si starting back at work, Kye starting kindy, Ada starting school… and losing her first tooth all in the one week! I’ve had to turn into super mum and have started cooking dinner at lunchtime to help ease the melt-down madness after […]
red currant and rose lassi recipe
Pushkar… colourfully adorned camels, streets lined with delicious sweets, mountain monkeys swinging outside my window, rose and amla lassi… is what my dear friend Grace wrote while on a recent trip to India. I remember it well, even though it’s been well over 10 years since I stepped foot on Indian soil. I remember with great […]
gluten-free peach & mulberry cake recipe
It’s been one of those weeks. You know the kind where every moment feels like you’re trying to catch up? On chores, on work, on sleep. Sleep. Mostly sleep. Every parent out there knows the feeling of insomnia caused by tending to sick children. It’s a killer. After a promising start to the school week everything went […]
black bean, corn and coriander salad recipe
As I’ve watched each of our jalapeno chillies grow and ripen I’ve been thinking about what I might do with them first. This time last year we were packing up our life in NZ all ready to make the move over the ditch so I hadn’t bothered planting much in our garden that summer. The […]
what to do with strawberry runners…
Ever wondered what those long dangly bits are that grow from your strawberry plants? They’re called runners and basically what they are is the plant trying to expand. If you look closely you will see that underneath each bunch of new leaves growing on the runner, there will be a little root trying to shoot out the […]