North Indian spiced cauliflower with ginger recipe… and sun, glorious sun!

It seems someone was listening to my ranting about the weather of late, we’ve just been blessed with not one but three days of sun! So we’ve spent our days out doors lapping up the Vitamin D, climbing plum trees, playing at the beach and going for walks… I thought I’d share a few shots […]
spring fennel, pear and pecan salad recipe

It feels a tad strange writing about Spring salads because as I write rain is once again falling outside. We’ve had the fire going all day long the past few days and it still feels like winter to me! I was talking to my Dad the other night and we were both whingeing about the […]
gluten-free chocolate, chilli and blueberry slice recipe & the big three O

So my birthday has come and gone. I’m 30. It’s funny, most birthdays pass without me giving them much thought, I’m not usually one to fret and think about getting older. But here’s the thing, I remember my own mother turning 30. I remember her party, I remember the band that played up at my […]
gluten-free rosemary and lemon cookie recipe

Making cookies was one of my main jobs when I first started out cooking in a local cafe as an eager 17-year-old. We didn’t have a cake mixer at that time so it was all done by hand. I got pretty good at creaming butter and sugar with a wooden spoon, something my Nana and […]
chocolate tofu mousse recipe

Last year a friend of mine (Rosie Percival) and her friend Ruth Friedlander put out a cute little cookbook, self published and self promoted the girls have done such an amazing job of it that I just felt I had to share! Martha goes green is a precious little cookbook, and today’s chocolate tofu mousse […]
quinoa with roast Kumara & chimichurri recipe

Quinoa, my friend. We go a long way back, you were my Savior when I couldn’t eat anything else! For months on end I cooked you up, along with plain roasted root vegetables and ate you, over and over again. Thank you for your sustenance. But now it’s time to add a wee bit more flavour and […]
gluten-free spiced gingerbread cake recipe

Back when I was still breastfeeding Kye and eating was like walking on eggs shells (with all fingers and toes crossed) hoping that what I was eating wouldn’t leave him screaming in pain all night, my lovely brother Louie sent me a wonderful and life saving book over from Scotland. Vegetarian cooking without by Barbara […]