MY DARLING LEMON THYME

gluten-free chocolate tofu peanut butter pie recipe

This month has been a hard one for me, for many reasons that I won’t go into here. I’ve had my fair share of moments of feeling sad and overwhelmed, but at least when Si’s working away we get phone calls every night to say sweet dreams, I love you, goodnight. And at the end of his […]

homemade almond milk recipe

Have you tried almond milk before? I hadn’t up until a week ago. This may sound rather strange for someone who has been mostly dairy-free for over three years, but it just always seemed way to expensive to justify buying it and we simply got used to the sweet thinness of rice milk in place of cow. Back […]

split pea soup with coriander (cilantro) & cashew nut pesto recipe

Okay, so now I feel silly. Here I was saying that it’s not very often I cook soup, then I went right ahead and made… split pea soup. Go figure. Maybe it was all that talking about it that had me two days later craving it? I went with it, knowing full well that only […]

bitter orange, rosewater & almond marmalade recipe

When Si came home from work the other day holding a huge box of freshly picked, organic, fluro-coloured oranges, mandarins and tangelos, I knew instantly that I’d have to hide a few to make marmalade. You may remember from last year that I have a wee addiction to making preserves, even though we don’t tend […]

fresh hibiscus cordial recipe

Our backyard is awesome. It’s fully enclosed so the kids can happily play out there alone without any fear of them running onto the road. It’s flat. There’s grass. Trees. Two lemon trees. Rose bushes in full bloom. And an overgrown hibiscus plant covered with bright pink pom-pom like flowers.  One day recently as the […]

miso-curry butternut squash with tofu + cavolo nero recipe

Few people have made an impression on my life lately as much has Heidi Swanson. If it wasn’t for her cookbook Super Natural Cooking I may have never found her blog 101cookbooks, I may never have found my fellow tribe of food bloggers lovers and I know I would have never thought to start my own blog. I also know […]