mango yoghurt popsicle recipe, a ferris wheel and two happy kids

The kids and I went off to the supermarket the other day in search of some yoghurt. I usually make my own, but stupidly used up the very last of it without saving a little to make my next batch. Duh. Anyways, here we were standing in front of the chiller section looking at all […]
vegan green papaya salad recipe

If I could eat just one salad for the rest of my life, it would be green papaya salad hands down. It’s a crush that started many years ago when I first moved to Australia as a keen and somewhat naive teenager. Up until then I had never even heard of eating papaya (paw paw) green. […]
chocolate filled gluten-free cookie recipe

I’ve left enough time between chocolate cookie posts eh? Of course I have! Especially when it’s a recipe for soft gluten-free chocolate cookies sandwiched together with rich chocolate ganache that’s on offer right? Yeah, I thought as much… In case you hadn’t noticed I’m online once again and with Si starting back at work this week after […]
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 […]
vegetarian dolmades recipe

As I sit here typing, my mother-in-law is busy working away in the kitchen making her famous Vietnamese pickles. There are jars of carrot and daikon lined up along the bench as well as a whole sink-full of an Asian green I’ve never known the name of. It’s a little hard to get in the mood to […]
gluten-free mulberry, orange + almond tarts recipe

Everywhere you look around our neighbourhood at the moment you see laden mulberry bushes, branches hanging low with the weigh of their load and the ground littered with berries no one has picked. Coming from New Zealand where I’ve never even seen a mulberry bush it’s quite a sight, and somewhat heartbreaking at the same […]
tadka dahl recipe

Recently I picked up Gordon Ramsay’s~Great Escape, at a book sale in town. Now, I’m not usually one to be sucked into the whole ‘celebrity chef thing’, and with this book nothing has changed. I buy a book for its content over the name of the author any day. When I picked this book up and started […]