buckwheat pancakes with warm vanilla berries {gluten + dairy-free} + a cookbook giveaway!
I own a lot of cookbooks. If my husband Si was telling this story he would definitely be using expletives by now and would be going on about how my cookbooks are no longer contained to the one shelf above the T.V. He would be saying they now occupy premium space under the desk, beside […]
black bean + quinoa tacos with avocado, coriander + lime sauce {gluten-free + vegan}
When we were little, we didn’t do barbecues at home. I guess it was the thinking of the time, that only meat can be cooked on one of them. And being well, vegetarian, meant we didn’t even own one. When invited over to friends for barbecues my mum would buy one packet of vegetarian sausages […]
a few of my favourite things {October 2013}
I’m just putting the final touches on the last of Gourmet Gadget Challenge posts, so I thought I’d sneak in a little favourites post quickly before that goes live sometime in the next day or two. It’s been a very busy month, but I’ve managed to find some little gems on the online world to […]
kohlrabi, beetroot + apple salad with parsley + lime
Mum and Dad used to grow all sorts of fruits and vegetables when we were little. There were rows of strawberries covered in black netting to keep the birds out, rows of corn that we kids would play hide and seek in, mounds of potatoes, which if I remember rightly is where I put the […]
vegan fried rice with sugar-snap peas + chilli recipe
It feels like forever since I’ve been here. Really it’s only been a week or so, but life has been so busy these school holidays that to be honest I’ve not had even one second to pull a recipe together to share, until today. It’s been an eventful few weeks with trips to the beach, […]
Inspire me: Sarah Kieffer from The Vanilla Bean Blog
You know how awhile ago I wrote about my desire to someday meet all these amazing bloggers from all over the world, that I now call friends? Yep well, Sarah from The Vanilla Bean Blog would be right up there on the top of that list! I adore everything about this talented lady, from her gobsmackingly good […]
homemade butter recipe
There are some food trends I may never fully understand. Take Cronuts for example or molecular gastronomy. Layers of deep-fried croissant pastry or liquid nitrogen in my food, nope not for me, thanks. But there is a trend that’s gaining more and more momentum as the years go by that’s totally in line with me and my beliefs and […]
