Do you plan your meals? I usually shop fortnightly though I do get a weekly ethical groceries (EGG) order which supplements this. As I do my main grocery shopping fortnightly I generally do a menu plan for the fortnight. For a while I was posting about our menu weekly but haven't done that in a… Continue reading What’s Been on the Menu Lately?
We've got a lot of pumpkin at the moment. I bought a whole butternut pumpkin and them my mum gave me a home grown pumpkin. So I've been wondering what do with all of this pumpkin? Particularly, as I'm the only one who would willingly choose to eat pumpkin in our house. What can I… Continue reading What can I make with Pumpkin?
With Christmas just a few days away, I'd thought I'd share this round-up of last minute Christmas recipe ideas. Just in case you're still looking for ideas. Our usual Christmas Menu involves cold chicken and ham, with salads. Followed by plum pudding and other desserts. There are of course also lots of other Christmas snacks… Continue reading Last Minute Christmas Recipe Ideas
Recently we were given quite a few home grown sweet potatoes. So, I've been looking for Sweet Potato Recipes to use them in. We've give away some of the sweet potatoes but I'm still looking for recipe ideas that use sweet potatoes. A pile of sweet potatoes ready to use Sweet Potato Information We really… Continue reading Sweet Potato Recipes
Lemon Crunch Slice was one of the biscuits that we always had at Christmas time growing up. Two of the others were Mum's (Grandma's) Choc Afghans and Melting Moments. These recipes are in my mother's recipe folder. My mother used to make them for Christmas each year and I took over making them when I… Continue reading Gluten Free Lemon Crunch Slice
If you've been reading my blog in the last few months you'll know that we've been renovating. In the last 5 days or so we've been able to fully use our new kitchen. So today as part of the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge I'm talking about cooking in our new kitchen. Our… Continue reading Cooking in Our New Kitchen
Six weeks ago today we packed up our kitchen to prepare for renovations. The renovations are nearly done. Although I've got a pretty good temporary kitchen set up in our garage I've been without an oven & hotplates for nearly 6 weeks. I've been working out how to bake without an oven. Breakfast, lunches &… Continue reading Baking without an oven!
We've been in our house for over 10 years now. During that time we've always talked about moving the laundry upstairs to be closer to the outside clothesline. Our kitchen is finally being renovated and there is going to be some changes to the layout in the house. We've gone through various places of where… Continue reading Renovations starting
These biscuits are based on some Honey Oat Biscuits from Itchin' Kitchen. Based on Jess' suggestions for making them oat free I have used a mix of quinoa flakes, organic desiccated coconut & hazelnut meal or flax seed meal. I used a mix of brown rice flour, corn starch, tapioca flour and yellow maize flour. … Continue reading Maple Quinoa Biscuits
The original recipe was in our Day to Day Cookery Cookbook. This was the cookbook we used for school Home Economics lessons at high school. My mother had a copy of this cookbook so I didn't get to have a newer edition. I remember visiting my friend (when I was in high school) one weekend… Continue reading GF Raspberry Coconut Slice
