gluten-free peach & mulberry cake recipe
It’s been one of those weeks. You know the kind where every moment feels like you’re trying to catch up? On chores, on work, on sleep. Sleep. Mostly sleep. Every parent out there knows the feeling of insomnia caused by tending to sick children. It’s a killer. After a promising start to the school week everything went […]
black bean, corn and coriander salad recipe
As I’ve watched each of our jalapeno chillies grow and ripen I’ve been thinking about what I might do with them first. This time last year we were packing up our life in NZ all ready to make the move over the ditch so I hadn’t bothered planting much in our garden that summer. The […]
healthy banana, date + orange cookie recipe and kids lunch-box ideas
I’m still finding it hard to comprehend, but in a mere four days my big baby girl will be starting school *gulp*. For some reason when the kindy year finished last year, I thought that between then and now things would have changed, you know, she would seem older and I would seem well, ready. […]
gluten-free banana cake w/ passionfruit icing
Bananas used to be one of those fruits we always seemed to have laying around, with at least one from every bunch ripening just a tad too much to make for pleasant eating, destined only for baking or freezing. But since moving to Perth where bananas were selling for $19kg last March they quickly became […]
roasted cherry tomato pasta salad with Kalamata olive dressing recipe
Since moving house, we’ve had two large boxes of picked tomatoes hanging around waiting for me to do something with them. See, when we left the old house we stripped our plants of all their tomatoes, even the green ones. Which have now been slowly ripening off the vine (and some, rotting sadly). What initially […]
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 […]
roast eggplant, tomato and feta salad with pomegranate molasses dressing
So it’s been awhile since I’ve talked about our garden, or should I say pots? Moving house the week before Christmas means that we still haven’t found the time to do anything about making those new garden beds, to house all the transferred plants. But not too worry, most of them are doing okay where they […]
