Raspberry & Almond Cake
Happy Monday! It was a wet, overcast autumn day here yesterday, the kiddos and I spent the morning snuggled on the sofa, watching some cartoons and eating pancakes. Sundays often...
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Hot Spiced Apple Juice
Oh Autumn! I love this season so much… one of my favourite things about the cooler weather is drinking hot spiced apple juice. The smell and the taste are so...
Homemade Jam
One of my favourite things about summer here is the abundance of fresh fruit we can harvest. Strawberries, plums, raspberries, currants, blackberries. They taste so good warmed by the sun...
Making lunch times fun
Lunch times…. while we don’t need packed lunches for school every day, we still have plenty of home-ed groups and daytrips that require us to take lunch with us. Soggy...
Homemade Humous
We didnt’ get any baking time this weekend, so no weekend cake – plus it was too hot to be in a stuffy kitchen! I did whip up a batch...
Cherry Almond Cake
Oh what a perfect weekend it was! Sunshine., friends, bbq’s, music, paddling pools, chilling – everything you could want! Life seems so much more laid back when the sun is...
Spiced Pear Cake
This was actually Fridays cake, but hey! Weekends seem to fly, Saturdays are taken up with kiddos groups and yesterday we headed to Techniquest with friends for the afternoon. The...
Tomato Soup for the Soul
Rainy days call for comfort food, movies and board games. Miss Kiki took a nasty tumble on Friday night, we’d spent the evening watching a band in our local park,...
Lime Cheesecake bites
Weekends are for cakes, right? We have a little more time, and often have friends round, so for us, the weekend is the time to bake and have fun! This...
Organic Muffins
The recipe for this weekends cakes came from EcoMarket.com‘s blog. They have some great DIY ideas on there. Miss Lola whipped up a batch for our picnic dinner by the...
Chocolate Brownies
Kiddos favourites – chocolate brownies! Miss Lola made these and they lasted, um, about five minutes!! SO good! Warm with ice-cream or cold with a cup of tea – perfect!...
Cinnamon Swirl Cake
Another long bank holiday weekend here. we made the most of a couple days beautiful sunshine. Playdates, BBQ’s, gardening, park trips, art clubs, movie night, discos and a long afternoon...
Carrot Cake
Weekends in our house are about relaxing, gardening, family time, but mostly cake… I’ve posted a recipe for carrot cake before, but I got handed this one by a friend,...
Honey Cake
Weekends are always good for baking a cake, especially when you have a mountain of eggs thanks to the chickens in your backyard! The kiddos made some chocolate muffins and...
Homemade digestive biscuits
the good ol’ digestive… plain, un-fancy maybe… but they taste so good! i’ve tried to make them once before, but they didn’t come out great… this time? oh boy were...