For the love of food
I’m very excited to welcome my first guest blogger stepping in to help me out while I’m jet-setting over to NYC! Jennifer aka Mother Thyme has been a blogging friend of mine for a couple of years now. She comes up with the most amazing looking recipes and has absolutely beautiful photos. They make me [...]
It wasn’t really a special I don’t think. $6 for a punnet of blueberries is hardly a bargain but for some reason, that particular week I was powerless to resist. I had banana and blueberry bread on the brain and I knew I wouldn’t stop thinking about it until I was eating a warm slice. Well a [...]
My research to discover the origins of the name of these little sweet treats has been rather futile. Apparently they’re nearly identical to Russian Tea Cakes and so some say, they were just re-named when the US and Russia weren’t on great terms in the 1950s and 60s. Other sources say that many countries have [...]
This week there was roast chicken in the slow cooker. Moroccan curry also in the slow cooker. A low-fat banana and blueberry bread. Honey and cinnamon oats. A beautiful morning sky. A trio of chips at Sunday lunch with the girls. All the recipes coming soon! How was your week?
I heard something horrifying on the news last night. Along with all the other terrible stories there was one about the cost of raising a child. The report said that from birth to age 24, it will cost $800,000 to raise two children. That’s not actually the part I was horrified by. What shocked me [...]
‘I’m going to turn into a burrito soon.’ That was Will last night. I’ll admit, I have been on a bit of a Mexican roll lately. We had it last Tuesday, then twice on the weekend and again last night. In the last 10 days I’ve made 48 tortillas! Last Friday night’s Mexican feast (the [...]
I love olives and I love chocolate but I’ve never loved the two together in one mouthful. Stay with me I’m going somewhere good, somewhere wonderful in fact because combined in baked-good deliciousness, these two are an unlikely but perfect pair. The matchmaker extraordinaire, Mr pine nut, brings them together in crunchy harmony. If you [...]
Chewy, no-bake biscuits crusted with coconut and topped with a smooth, rich, chocolate ganache finished with a dusting of desiccated coconut. Sounds mouth-watering doesn’t it? It sounds like something you could only have one of because they must be seriously naughty. It would appear that if you have a lack of self control when it [...]
This time in three weeks, Will and I will be on a plane heading over to New York City! We’re more than a little excited. The planning is well and truly underway and we’ve gone so overboard as to plot every place we want to go on a map. Restaurants have their own colour so [...]
I hope all the mothers out there had a wonderful day yesterday. We started the day celebrating with 10,000 other people at the Mother’s Day Classic walk for breast cancer. It was so wonderful to see so many people turn out to support a cause. Of course there was eating to be done after that [...]
I’m not here today. I’m over visiting Maureen at the Orgasmic Chef and sharing my coffee and macadamia loaf cake. Hop on over and check it out. You don’t even have to like coffee to enjoy it. I’m not a coffee drinker at all and I loved it. Somehow coffee plus cinnamon plus macadamia equals [...]
Have you ever seen such a magnificent spread? I haven’t been to many first Birthday parties but I think this may be the prettiest I will ever see. I arrived an hour an a half before the party was to start. Both girls were asleep and Sarah and her mum were calmly putting the finishing [...]
I am Claire & I love food. Here you'll find my favourite recipes, tips, tricks, restaurants & plates full of frivolity with the odd crafty post. New inspiration posted daily.
