Wow! Mother’s Day came around so quickly after Easter this year it felt like the baking didn’t really slow down.  It is really nice to make something for your Mum and home-made is always appreciated.

I thought I would make a few different Easter Goodies this year. A friend gave me some coloured fondant and I thought I could use some of this on the cookies.

After seeing so many lovely homemade gifts on line I decided to set to and give a couple of them a go. The first was a white chocolate and strawberry fudge. Never having made fudge before this was very interesting and tiring (stirring). However, the […]

I came across some gingerbread place names and decided it would be good for my left-over gingerbread.  I decided to use a bell as my base as I didn’t have a great deal of other items to choose from and it was a good size. […]

A little late this year getting the gingerbread house finished. The humidity we have been experiencing here in Melbourne didn’t help matters. We had a couple of little ‘breakages” and had to do a patch here and there, thankfully the lollies cover everything, and only […]

I visited my local library recently and found the Donna Hay Life In Balance recipe book and decided to borrow it so I could read this more fully at home.  There are some really good healthy recipes for all areas of cooking and I decided […]

Just one of the chocolate sculptures on show. I recently visited the Fine Food Show in Melbourne and it was fantastic. The variety of exhibitors this year was really good. I think more emphasis for this show was on products both local, interstate and overseas, […]

My husband loves anything with apple, so I decided to go through recent recipe finds to see what I had. I came across a loaf recipe using blueberries and it sounded really good. I thought I had either frozen or dried blueberries available but on […]

My grandson Kelly will be attending the NASA Space Camp in September along with approximately 200 other vision impaired students travelling from all over the world.  This is a very exciting event and a once in a lifetime opportunity for all those involved. Space Camp […]

  I tend to only make Anzac Cookies around Anzac Day. Although I really love the taste of them they are usually very sweet. Whilst reading some of my emails recently I came across a more healthy version using ingredients I am tending to use […]