a few of my favourite things {july 2012}
Si dropped my Dad and Marie off at the airport in the early hours of this morning. When the kids awoke they found an empty space where their mattress had been pushed into the corner of our living room for the past four days. With such a small amount of time to spend with their Grandpa, the […]
gluten + dairy-free mexican chocolate almond cookies recipe
So sorry things have been a little quiet around here the past week or so, it’s just I’ve been a tad busy… school holidays, Ada’s 6th birthday party to organise and execute and the general day-to-day chores of motherhood have kept me well and truly busy. I’ve still been cooking lots, as always; there was this radicchio […]
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. […]
