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Mango Coconut Chia Pudding
It’s mango season and have a look at this beauty on the left…. Usually when you buy organic, the fruit and vegetables are smaller. Not this mango, weighing in at 750g! when most larger mangoes are...
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Crunchy Quinoa Muesli Bars
Who doesn’t like a muesli bar? Especially when is a particularly good one, like this one is! I was intrigued to try this muesli bar as it has toasted quinoa in it. I am used to boiling my quinoa to...
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Fried Rice with Barley
Fried rice is one of those really easy, throw everything in one pot (or wok) meals that’s really tasty and filling I was inspired to use barley today because, well, I had cooked barley in the fridge...
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Green Pea Soup
Is it really possible to make soup from just two ingredients? It sure is! Years ago when I had my cafe, if we were short on time we would quickly whip this up for our ‘soup de jour’ and my customers...
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Carrot Soup with Cashews, Coconut Milk and Coriander
It’s only the second day of Winter here in Sydney, yet already it is bitterly cold outside. Despite clear blue skies and sunshine, this morning when I went for my walk it was only 9 degrees! When it...
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Chocolate, Pecan and Raisin Biscuits
Chocolate, pecan and raisin biscuits served on antique china since we had a holiday today to celebrate the Queen’s birthday!! I had a serious biscuit craving… These delicious biscuits satisfied that...
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Baby Kale Salad with Blood Orange and Fennel
Have you seen this gorgeous stuff in your green grocers or supermarket? Its baby kale The taste is much milder and the leaves are much softer than regular bunch kale, making it perfect for salads and...
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Cauliflower, Red Lentil and Coconut Soup
Here is a great quick and easy soup recipe to warm you up on what is supposed to be the coldest weekend in Sydney in 60 years! Cauliflowers are in season, plentiful and reasonably priced right now....
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Cauliflower “Fried Rice”
What a great and easy Meat free Monday meal. Really tasty and full of vegetables…. Cauliflowers are at their peak in July and the market was full of them, so I bought a few and wanted to try...
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Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Black Beans and Coriander
I have discovered my new favorite way of making pumpkin soup. It somehow seemed to be a lot easier than the usual way of making soup, and the flavour was amazing. First I roasted the pumpkin until...
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Banana Caramel Ice Cream
Have you ever tried frozen medjool dates? They taste just like caramel! I’m sure you are all familiar with making banana ice-cream out of….just frozen bananas! Try blending it with frozen medjool...
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Nut and Seed Crackers
these are delicious! Don’t you just love a good cracker? I certainly do! yummy goats cheese on my new favourite nut and seed crackers – oh gosh they are goood! I am more of a savoury (than sweet)...
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Chocolate Prune and Walnut Brownies
Sooo squidgey! My husband told me that I had to make something chocolatey over Easter So given that I always do as I am told (???), I made these chocolate prune and walnut brownies… can you believe...
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Carrot and Quinoa Seed Loaf
Many months ago a lovely girlfriend shared this recipe for a seed loaf, called ‘The life-changing loaf of Bread‘. To be honest, I thought it looked really dry, dense and heavy. Memories of my...
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Apricot, Date, Macadamia and Ginger Biscuits
Sometimes you just feel like a biscuit. So what do you do? I say have one. Especially if it is only sometimes. But what if you feel like having a biscuit more than sometimes? Many of my clients who...
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Carrot, Leek and White Bean Soup
Here’s a great soup recipe for anyone who doesn’t have much time to spend in the kitchen… I made it this week as we’d just returned home from a 3 week trip to the UK to an empty fridge and almost empty...
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Moroccan Pumpkin and Chickpea Soup
It’s been cold, wet and miserable here in Sydney for too long now. But the up side of this is that I have been making LOTS of soup and experimenting with new and interesting flavours I love to use...
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Cumin-Spiced Lentil and Spinach Soup
Recently we spent a weekend in Melbourne, visiting my 100 year old grandma, and I had a delicious soup just like this one… Lightly spiced with cumin and thick with lentils and vegetables, it was the...
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Chewy Chocolate Chunk Cookies
So, what makes a good chocolate cookie great? Is it just the right amount of chocolate? deliciously chocolatey and chewy Is it the chewy texture? Or do you prefer yours crunchy? these have a lovely...
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Banana Date and Walnut Bread
OMG, it really is possible to make a cake without sugar. A cake that actually tastes delicious too! Okay, so it doesn’t have sugar, but cakes are meant to be sweet, so what did I use to sweeten this...
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