I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and happy and safe New Year. 

Just in time for Christmas my grandson’s decorated gingerbread house. I guess you could say he rather likes freckles, I don’t think there is one side of the house without them.

My grandson came home and said he needed food for his school party, because his dad was so busy with work I said I would make something for him. My grandson said he wanted something sweet, so I decided to refer to the Donna Hay […]

Leading up to Christmas, time seems to get away from you, and all your plans of what you want to accomplish suddenly become impossible. I usually make quite a few baked goodies for the festive season, my first item for this year was this really great tasting […]

  Since my grandson has decided to eat vegetarian it is sometimes hard to find food that looks similar to what others eat. These vegetarian sausage rolls not only look similar to those that we know but they taste really good. In fact at a […]

I was going through recipes that I have taken out of magazines and printed off the internet trying to put them into some sort of order when I came across this recipe. It was called the magic cake.  When all the ingredients are mixed together […]

It has been a while since my last post and that is partly due to my being a volunteer for Fish For Life an organization raising funds for the Cancer Council. We have just had our Official Launch Event and there was a great deal of time […]

Although it is still winter here, and believe me we have had some really cold and windy days, there have been the odd pleasant ones with a blue sky and some sunshine. On a day that was sunny with very little wind we decided to […]

My cumquat tree is laden with fruit and I wanted to find a recipe that would use this rather tart ingredient. I have made a cumquat cointreau jam previously, but we are not great users of marmalade or jam, so I wanted something a little […]

I had been doing quite a bit of savoury cooking using ricotta cheese but had bought far too much and had a substantial amount still in my fridge. I decided to surf the net and see what I could find using ricotta cheese but in […]