When I was a teenager at home and my parents would go out for a date night or a church group they were part of, I would always beg ask my mum to buy the same thing for me to bake for dinner for my sister and I: breaded goat’s cheese coins. God, they were…
This light, summery, sweet cake was one of the first things I ever re-made to be low in sugar. I attempted it when we had some friends over for dinner, friends I knew to be true foodies and great cooks. They approved. Very much so. So I figured baking low sugar treats couldn’t be too…
Anybody else just given up on roast chicken? I’ve got some lovely recipes I make again and again with chicken, but roast chicken just doesn’t cut it for me anymore. Sometimes I stick a chicken (or two) in the slow cooker at the weekend and use the pulled chicken meat for lunches throughout the week,…
We love wraps in our family. Our sweet potato & black bean burritos are delicious, but we love mixing things up with breakfast egg-and-veggie-filled burritos or quesadillas, or using leftover meat to make yummy enchiladas (recipe coming soon). They are just such a simple way to make vegetables more fun, and allow for more creativity…
Anybody else kind of bored of chicken? I find it such an easy meat to get wrong – it can be dry, bland and dull in many dishes. But it is cheap, easy to prepare, and quick to cook. So it nearly always winds up in our meat box anyway. The thing is, the more…
Salmon. So good for us. But SO expensive. I don’t know about you, but our food budget can get pretty stretched at times, and while we prioritise quality food (including free range meats, organic dairy & eggs, organic produce and other quality ingredients) as much as possible over other areas of our budget, fish is…
