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 […]
healthy banana, date + orange cookie recipe and kids lunch-box ideas
I’m still finding it hard to comprehend, but in a mere four days my big baby girl will be starting school *gulp*. For some reason when the kindy year finished last year, I thought that between then and now things would have changed, you know, she would seem older and I would seem well, ready. […]
a few of my favourite things {jan 2012}
I thought I’d better quickly sneak in a little favourites list as we are fast approaching the end of January! Ekk, where did that go? I’ve come across so many great and inspiring things this past month and am constantly blown away by all the amazing people creating great things out there. Love it. * a […]
gluten-free banana cake w/ passionfruit icing
Bananas used to be one of those fruits we always seemed to have laying around, with at least one from every bunch ripening just a tad too much to make for pleasant eating, destined only for baking or freezing. But since moving to Perth where bananas were selling for $19kg last March they quickly became […]
roasted cherry tomato pasta salad with Kalamata olive dressing recipe
Since moving house, we’ve had two large boxes of picked tomatoes hanging around waiting for me to do something with them. See, when we left the old house we stripped our plants of all their tomatoes, even the green ones. Which have now been slowly ripening off the vine (and some, rotting sadly). What initially […]
dairy-free strawberry, vanilla & coconut ice cream recipe
Back when I used to work in Sydney, one of my main jobs in the pastry section was making ice cream. I loved it. Playing with all that sugar, milk, cream and eggs was so much fun. We used two commercial ice cream machines to churn the custard bases, which were always whizzing away under my bench. The […]
