Chocolate Chip, Raisin Cookies – Morning Tea Baking
I have done the morning tea baking on a Saturday this week. I found the recipe with a few changes at Chocolate Covered Katie's blog. I added raisins because I love them and I also doubled the recipe...
View ArticlePasta, Mushroom and Walnut Salad
This is a quick, easy, tasty and nutritious meal when you are short on time. On Saturday we are off to Italy - I might have mentioned that half a hundred times - and there's lots to do and the...
View ArticleWhite Raspberry Chocolate Cookies
I have made these cookies before here but this time I changed the dried fruit and chocolate ingredients. I consider it one of my best granola bar/cookie recipes to date and so, when I was sent a bar...
View ArticleAlmond, Orange & Cashew Cupcakes – Gluten-Free
I'm visiting my mother tomorrow and she prefers to be gluten-free so I have ventured into the land of gluten-free cupcakes, and I made a sugar-free topping as well. So, radical moves all round. I sent...
View ArticleBanana, Chocolate, Cranberry & Coconut Muffins
I have just joined the Chocolate Party! It is a great group of food bloggers who bake with chocolate and each month they decide on an extra compulsory ingredient. This month, it is cranberries. I am...
View ArticleBanana Mousse Cake – grain, nut, dairy and refined sugar-free
The banana coconut loaf I made on Saturday is almost finished - it was that popular. So I have had to bake again to make sure we have enough for the week. Today, Monday, is a holiday here in Auckland,...
View ArticlePork Spring Rolls – a learning experience
Today I sent Adriano off with the shopping list which included wonton wrappers. Well, he picked me up 20 minutes late after work because he had been scouring the supermarket from top to bottom for...
View ArticleGinger, Coconut, Raisin & Oatmeal Cookies – Gluten Free
I have finally made the best gluten-free cookies in the world. I can’t believe they didn’t burn in our notorious oven and I can’t believe how moist they are inside and so super tasty with the extra...
View ArticleBrandied Fruit Slice – morning tea tucker
Over the weekend I found these brandied fruit slices on one of my favourite blogs, Hotly Spiced. Charlie is a mother of three children, two of whom are teenagers and, while cooking delicious recipes,...
View ArticlePotato Dauphinoise
Tonight potato dauphinoise is the side dish I cooked for the family. I didn’t want to boil some spuds and plonk them down on the plate or they would have looked at me sideways. They are used to good...
View ArticleWhite-Bean Cookie Cake – Gluten-Free and Delicious
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet My sister and I were supposed to be visiting our mother tomorrow so I made this gluten-free cake to take since she is now gluten-free and feeling the better for...
View ArticleBlueberry Oatmeal Cream Cookies – healthy weekend baking
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet All week I think about my weekend baking – in a good way. I don’t obsess, I just wonder what I will bake. So, as I visit my favourite food blogs, I keep an eye...
View ArticleTomato & Pesto Tart – leftover night
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet I had a completely different dinner planned but then saw a tomato tart on Spicie Foodie and was inspired to make one too. I didn’t have any roasted tomatoes...
View ArticleChicken Wraps with Coriander, Chilli & Ginger Sauce
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet I love wraps of all kinds. Both because they taste good and because it seems like an easy, quick meal. Mind you it depends on what you put in them. A simple...
View ArticleSnapper & Cauliflower Couscous – A Gluten-Free Dinner
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet One of the first food blogs that I discovered was Roost, a gluten-free blog run by a young woman who cooks for her gluten-intolerant husband. It is a lovely,...
View ArticleSautéed Slivered Brussels Sprouts over Wild Rice Cakes – a vegan meal
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet A while back there was a discussion on a Facebook food bloggers group I belong to about some recipe books to review so I tootled on over to the website and...
View ArticleCaramel Granola Bars – Gluten-free
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet You would think by now I had run out of new granola bar recipes and it could definitely happen. There are only so many dried nuts and fruit out there and the...
View ArticleVegetable Paella
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet This is the second of the recipes I’m making from that vegan cooking book. It’s a vegetable paella and I chose it because it brings back memories of a wild...
View ArticleRack of Lamb – Low Fodmap & Gluten-Free
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet In New Zealand we have many more sheep than people and lamb is a common meat on our dinner plates and there is nothing more succulent than a sweet rack of lamb....
View ArticleMoroccan Couscous – memories of a meal in Paris
Strands of My Life - the Low Fodmap Diet This meal has once again thrown me back to a trip I took with Adriano – our very first holiday together. We went to London, which was horrendously expensive in...
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