Recipes I have created or acquired that I love
With roast pumpkin left in the fridge from the other night, what better way to use it than to make pumpkin soup. You can’t beat it. So warming and great for these cold winter days. I bought a large pumpkin the other day for just $3. It doesn’t get much Read more…
I love having Bliss Balls in the fridge. You feel like a naughty snack and bingo, there you have one. They taste delicious but they are NOT naughty, just yum. The last batch I made were so moist and full of yum it was like eating uncooked biscuit mixture. The Read more…
Yesterday I was walking the dog in Cornwall Park and a mother was there with her 2 year old daughter. They spent the whole time with the daughter playing in her yellow gumboots in the puddles. It made me laugh, the Mum probably wanted to go for a walk in Read more…
It’s my daughter’s birthday tomorrow and she has requested a Hummingbird cake. I love making hummingbird cakes!! The luscious ingredients make for such a moist delicious cake. I was at Greenland hospital today taking her for her eye check, and discovered a recipe for Hummingbird cake in the cookbook at Read more…
It’s always good to try something new. It’s Easter Monday and after a long and lovely weekend, we are having a quiet day around the house, the sun is shining, I am trying to finish my book club book, Villette by Charlotte Bronte, with its old English language and 657 Read more…
In the middle of rolling up the carpet of our bedroom and before I began to write my novel for the day,(which I am very excited about and started writing about 3 weeks ago, in fact at about the same time as I started this blog!) I decided to bake Read more…
I have developed a love for Pão de queijo over the years and have now finally perfected the art of making it. It is one of my favourite things about going to Brazil, of which there are many of course, but this delicious cheese bread, made from tapioca starch is the stringiest Read more…
Lunch time on Saturday and I was starving. With the whole family in the house, husband shifting dirt from our renovation and two daughters doing homework I thought, scones. Doesn’t take long to whip up a batch of scones, we could be eating in half an hour. (It was already Read more…
Pebre is a fantastic accompaniment to any meat, empanada or dish. It is a popular Chilean salsa. It is a staple on Chilean tables, like Italian pesto or Argentinean chimichurri. It is very simple to make and when we lived in Chile, it was the favourite thing to have, at Read more…
Spanish Tortilla On Thursday I made Spanish Tortillas for my daughter’s school’s Family Festival. It involved having a food stand. I came up with the idea for this about five years ago and with my sister’s help have been doing it ever since. A tortilla is a Spanish Omelette Read more…