MY DARLING LEMON THYME

gluten-free chocolate almond cake recipe {Reine de Saba}

Cooking legend Julia Child would have been turning 100 on August 15th this year. For the past 6 weeks bloggers from around the world have been invited to cook recipes in her honour as part of JC100. Each week there’s been a different recipe from Mastering the Art of French Cooking to play with if […]

gluten-free lemon delicious pudding recipe

Citrus season is in full-swing in Perth and I’ve never seen such laden trees before moving over here! Back home in NZ our lemon tree used to take turns, you know… one year millions of fruit, the next, only a handful. But here, the trees seem to be full to branch-breaking point every year. We […]

spicy coconut noodle soup recipe

A little bit salty, a little bit spicy, a little bit sour and a little bit sweet. This is my idea of the perfect bowl of soup. Add in some slippery noodles and a tangle of Asian greens and I’m one happy lady. As I’ve mentioned before, soup is not something I cook all that […]

kids in the kitchen + gluten-free lemon coconut cupcakes recipe {guest post}

Teaching our kids that vegetables are grown in the earth, that cakes come from mixing natural ingredients in a bowl before baking instead of merely buying one ready-made, to me, are some of the greatest and most fundamental things that we can do as parents. The world we live in today is somewhat of a scary place. […]

lemon thyme mushrooms on buttered quinoa recipe

The weather this past week has been amazing. Super crisp mornings and blue as blue skies all day long. Because it’s so hot here in Perth for a good portion of the year, it’s easy to forget that it does actually still get cold in late autumn and winter. But I really don’t mind the […]

spiced pumpkin chocolate brownie recipe (gluten + lactose-free)

I came so close to calling this a cake. It’s more cake-like than brownie you see. But the recipe that inspired mine came from none other than Martha Stewart, and she called it a brownie. So who am to argue? That being said though people, go into making this expecting to eat cake. Sure, the pockets […]

pumpkin tofu curry recipe

I’m not sure if anyone noticed, but I’ve been feeling really detached from this site over the past fortnight. All with good reason. First there was a health scare or two, including a lovely spider bite just under my right eye, there was a sick child thrown into the mix somewhere there and lastly Kye’s 4th birthday […]