creamy coconut rice pudding with date compote recipe {dairy-free}

As a mum, I feel like I spend all my life preparing food. As a food blogger, I feel like I spend all my time thinking about food. There’s barely a second that goes by when I’m not doing one or the other, so much so that some would call me obsessed. I do. […]
dairy-free mango + coconut ice cream recipe

We are just coming to the end of mango season here in Perth with only two or three fruit left on our trees. At the start of the season we gorged ourselves on the unripe ‘green’ ones that fell in the wind, sliced thinly and dipped into chilli salt or Ada’s favourite; sugar and fish sauce (she’s […]
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 […]
dairy-free chocolate sauce recipe

Strangely for Vegetarians, we don’t consume a whole lot of soy. We eat tofu around once a week and have a carton of soy milk hanging around for cups of tea, but more often than not the last little bit goes off before being consumed. I prefer to use fermented soy products like tempeh and […]
salted coconut caramels recipe

In amongst the flurry of packing last week, Ada had her last day of Kindy. It was a big day as any mother knows, my baby is all grown up and ready to start pre-primary next year! Far out. As a little token of my appreciation for all the hard work her teachers have put in this […]
vegan mango jelly with strawberry + mint salad recipe

Sometimes it’s funny how things turn out. Right when we were starting to feel like the world was turning against us (hurt ankle, broken leg, bung computer, notice to vacate our house… you get the picture) a little light in the form of two mango trees appears at the end of the tunnel. It’s such […]
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 […]