I am feeling rather chuffed at the moment. Our garden, planted solely with seeds from the New World Little Garden series, is producing heaps of veges! We planted sunflowers, basil, kale, tomatoes, nasturtiums, corn, cucumbers, purple tansy, beans, red onion …
Category: Baking
Back to school muffins (nut free + gluten free!)
We made it! Nearly 8 weeks later and we’ve survived the world’s longest school holidays. After 8 weeks of play dates, sleep overs, bickering, swimming, and lots and lots of fun, school is BACK! But I have to say that …
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Melting Moments
You know how it is when you find the perfect hairdresser and you will follow her to the end of the earth? I’ve found mine and her name is Olivia. Ever since the GPD (Great Perm Debacle) of 1992, I’ve …
Nostalgia and some Neenish tarts
Last week I booked tickets for the kids and I to do a fleeting pre Xmas visit to our relatives down South. This will be my first visit to Darfield where Nana won’t be there. This time there will be …
Peanut butter marshmallow bars
Sometimes life calls for a ridiculously naughty treat, and this week my life was calling for such a treat. I felt like something chocolatey and I also felt like something with peanut butter so I smooshed two recipes together and …
Nana Betty’s Christmas cake
1000 cups of dried fruit. 600 eggs. 22kg of butter. 43kg of flour. That’s what it’s taken to make the 100 fruit cakes my Nana Betty has baked over the years. That’s 1 cake for the 59 Christmases she was …
Jelly Tip pavlova
Panic stations – Christmas is only 8 weeks away! It’s never too early to start planning your Christmas Day menu and it wouldn’t be a kiwi Christmas without some sort of pavlova. This is the ultimate in Kiwi mash-ups. We’re …
Mike’s pie (beef + red wine)
My husband is a firm believer that a pie shouldn’t have any ‘bits’ in it. ‘Bits’ include carrot, celery, and god forbid, corn. In his eyes, if a pie contains any of these, it is no longer a pie. It has …
A glorified Snickers bar
What’s got two thumbs and loves peanut, caramel and chocolate? This gal. I’m a firm believer that if you’re going to waste your hard earned calories on a single chocolate bar, it might as well have more than one thing …
Peanut butter Mallowpuffs
What’s the best way to eat a Mallowpuff? Smashing it on your forehead and then picking off the chocolate before eating the rest? Or stuffing the whole thing in your mouth? I am firmly in the smashing camp. For all of you …
once upon an egg 