growing mint, the easy way
There’s nothing like having fresh mint on hand to add a little life to boiled potatoes, freshness to salads and colour to desserts. It’s one of my favourite herbs and one I would hate to do without. You can grow it from seed, from little seedlings or from cuttings as I like to do. My […]
little gluten-free mango cakes recipe
I have to say, I sometimes forget we are even living in Australia. As a mum you just get on with life, doing whatever has to be done to keep the kids fed, happy and healthy. So much so that there’s not really a whole lot of time left in the day to actually just […]
vegetarian dolmades recipe
As I sit here typing, my mother-in-law is busy working away in the kitchen making her famous Vietnamese pickles. There are jars of carrot and daikon lined up along the bench as well as a whole sink-full of an Asian green I’ve never known the name of. It’s a little hard to get in the mood to […]
a few of my favourite things… {october 2011}
If you follow on facebook or twitter you will have already heard that as of last week I am computer-less (sigh), yes a bloggers worst nightmare! I’m not 100% sure our computer is fixable at this stage and with Si still off work (his leg is mending well, just slowly) popping out to buy a […]
gluten-free mulberry, orange + almond tarts recipe
Everywhere you look around our neighbourhood at the moment you see laden mulberry bushes, branches hanging low with the weigh of their load and the ground littered with berries no one has picked. Coming from New Zealand where I’ve never even seen a mulberry bush it’s quite a sight, and somewhat heartbreaking at the same […]
tadka dahl recipe
Recently I picked up Gordon Ramsay’s~Great Escape, at a book sale in town. Now, I’m not usually one to be sucked into the whole ‘celebrity chef thing’, and with this book nothing has changed. I buy a book for its content over the name of the author any day. When I picked this book up and started […]
homemade pickled ginger recipe
We love sushi in this house. Actually some would say we live off the stuff! When the kids were little living back home in Raglan and being gluten-free the only place we could really ever take them ‘out’ for lunch was to the local sushi shop. They kinda had no choice in the matter; they […]
