beetroot + orange salad with honey mustard miso dressing

Lately we’ve been returning home from the weekend markets laden with bags of citrus. There’s always a couple of different kinds of mandarins for the kids lunches, sweet Bindoon oranges for eating and last week I even went crazy and bought a 12kg bag of oranges for juicing. I really do have to find myself […]
chickpea and leek soup recipe

I’m feeling way better than I did a few days ago. I’ve been drinking loads of my lemon rosemary tea and clearing my sinuses with this, but Si’s still been complaining that I’m keeping him awake with my constant dry cough all night long. I’ve been so tired it hasn’t even been waking me up, but […]
soothing lemon, honey + rosemary tea recipe

Something’s been trying to get me these past few days. It’s been lurking at the back of my throat threatening to worsen. I had felt like I was managing to keep it at bay by overdosing on vitamin C, Olive leaf extract and Colloidal silver, but this morning I woke up feeling like crap. My nose […]
jerk tempeh with coriander (cilantro) sauce recipe

It’s all too easy in this day and age to focus on the bad, sad and ugly reality of life that faces so many around the world. Obesity, diabetes, cancer and disease as well as genetically modified foods, additives and chemicals are catch phrases we are all too familiar with in the 21st century. But amongst all this sadness there […]
gluten-free apple berry pandowdy recipe

I awoke yesterday to a very distraught little girl pleading with me to let her stay home from school. “My tummy really, really hurts mum”, she said. There have been all sorts of nasty bugs doing the rounds lately and even though Ada has a bad habit of saying something hurts on a daily basis, for […]
chilli tofu recipe

It’s freezing today. I mean proper finger numbing, toe aching, shiver-inducing cold as cold can be. Perth is the craziest place of extremes, hot as hell in summer and then just as freezing as back home in NZ in the wintertime?! That’s why I enjoy spring and autumn so much, give me mild any day. […]
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 […]