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• Real Food Meal Plan – Week 3 2016

  

  My meal plan this week is short and sweet. The unrelenting heat has sapped my energy, and consequently there is no freezer cooking to speak of. On the up side... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Leftover Salmon Caesar Salad

  

  Serendipity: the making of fortunate discoveries by accident. Rummaging in the fridge for lunch, I uncovered a piece of leftover salmon, a small jar of avocado... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Lemon Feta Zucchini Noodles

  

  These zesty Lemon Feta Zucchini Noodles can be pulled together in around 15 minutes. Add a loaf of crusty bread and you have a simple vegetarian meal for a... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Real Food Meal Plan – Week 2 2016

  

  With the temperature in the 40C's this week, it's been too hot to cook. So my Real Food Meal Plan is full of salads designed to keep both us, and the house,... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Kitchen Basics: Oven Dried Cherry Tomatoes

  

  These little flavour bombs are a great way to use up a glut of cherry tomatoes. Toss oven dried cherry tomatoes through pastas and salads, spread them over... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• In My Kitchen – February 2016

  

  The Christmas fairies have visited, and In My Kitchen you will find lots of shiny new gadgets and cookbooks. Enjoy! It's been a few months since I have written... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Real Food Meal Plan – Week 1 2016

  

  This week's Real Food Meal Plan is all about using up the food I already have in the pantry and the freezer. I've managed to make a little room, but not much.... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Nut Free Chocolate Raspberry Bliss Balls

  

  These dense, fudgy nut free chocolate raspberry bliss balls are great for tucking into kids lunchboxes. They are also an easy way to increase protein in the... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Vegan Mini Pavlovas | The Recipe ReDux

  

  The crowning glory at any family feast during my childhood was always the pavlova. Whilst there may have been other desserts on the table, I only had eyes for... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Lentil and Roast Beef Salad

  

  Christmas dinner was at our house, and being from good country stock I had enough food to feed everybody a few times over. I have never had so many leftovers.... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• 5 Minute Healthy Snacks E-book

  

  Happy New Year! Now that the whirlwind of the festive season is over, I can finally start to focus on other things. With the new year comes a new project that ... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Eat, Drink and Be Merry

  

  So here we are, at the end of the year. How on earth did that happen? Whilst I had the best intentions of producing a few more posts before Christmas, time ha... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• 21 Homemade Spice Mixes: The Perfect DIY Gift

  

  Homemade spice mixes are the perfect last minute gift. They are very quick, and usually very cheap, to make. Package a variety of spice mixes in glass... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Our Real Food Meal Plan – Week 39

  

  Apologies for being absent without warning. I experienced the perfect storm of The Princess finishing school for the year, and having to serve four days on jur... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Oven Baked Fish Nuggets

  

  Once upon a time, my go-to emergency meal was a box of crumbed frozen fish fillets. One box, together with a few sides, would feed Mr Grumpy me. However the... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Our Real Food Meal Plan – Week 38

  

  Do you ever get the feeling the Universe is trying to tell you something? I'm thinking it's telling me to slow down. This week my oven blew up, which saw me... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Apricot and Coconut Nut Loaf

  

  In the days before new cookbooks would appear on bookshelves every other day, my Nan would write down her recipes in a faded notebook. The well thumbed pages... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Our Real Food Meal Plan – Week 37

  

  Mr Grumpy has been away this week, so dinner has been about simple dishes that require minimal washing up. We harvested our first zucchini this week, so I brok... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Tomato and White Bean Salad

  

  The Princess has been peering into other lunchboxes at school, and has decided everybody's lunch is far better than hers. To address this, she has abandoned he... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Kitchen Basics: Quick Pickled Onions

  

  I can't stand raw onion. So much so, that I've been known to meticulously pick out every last piece of raw onion in a salad before I will eat it. I do not,... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES