honey + thyme figs w/ yoghurt + almonds
I thought I’d stop by quickly today to say hi and to share a lovely little fig dish I made while staying over at my mums house on the east coast. I’ve been missing this space more than I ever thought I would, could or should do and didn’t realise how much my rambling on […]
banana coffee oat muffins à la Vanilla Bean Blog
We have arrived safely back home in Raglan, NZ and it feels like we never left. It’s funny how the instant you return to a place as familiar as this, the past few years seem to disappear in an instant. Already it feels like our life back in Perth was just a dream… Today I have a very […]
almond cake à la London Bakes
I really did have full intentions of getting at least one more recipe up before we take off, but alas my days have been way too short and my list of things to do much too long. Lucky for me the lovely Kathryn from London Bakes has come along to help out by means of […]
mango, mint + lime lassi recipe
The tooth-fairy nearly forgot to come the other night. It was Ada’s fourth tooth to fall out so she knows the drill by now. I stumbled in to bed just before midnight, after a busy day of cooking/writing/editing photos. I was rudely awoken about an hour later by a little tap-tap on the shoulder from a small […]
baby potato salad with minted yoghurt dressing recipe
Growing up, summer meant freshly dug baby spuds… baby spuds cooked with mint. Scratch that, baby spuds cooked with mint and smothered with lashings of butter! To me there is nothing quite as memory-inducing as the smell of minty spuds cooking and it’s something I’ve often wondered about. Why is it that only the fresh baby […]
strawberry + coconut popsicle recipe {vegan}
I’m not always that good with change. Just like the kids I quite like knowing what’s going to happen next and absolutely hate that feeling of not knowing the local language when thrown in the deep end. And so I find myself sitting here typing up this post on my trusty old computer while the brand-spanking new […]
tofu, herb + mango salad with dijon mustard dressing recipe
A few weeks back we were over at my mother-in-laws house when Si’s cuzzy Luke Nguyen came on telly. He’s not really his cousin but like so many other South Vietnamese we share the same surname as him (I’m actually a Nguyen by marriage, but I still go by my maiden name most of the […]
