Feeding a fussy eater
As a child I was a terribly fussy eater, I didn’t like vegetables, I didn’t like meat, I didn’t even like chips. I’d eat one thing constantly for months and...
Tag: recipes
Healthy Granola Bars
As well as working out more recently, I’ve been making more of a conscious effort to clean up my eating. I’d fallen back into bad habits, especially over the festive...
Roasted Gnocchi
We hadn’t had gnocchi for ages until the other week, topped with fresh pesto it was delicious. Chatting with a friend, she suggested roasting it in the oven, it sounded...
Vegetarian Paella
I’ll start this by saying that this was possibly one of the best things I have ever made//eaten. Seriously. It’s that good. I’ve never had paella before, namely because it’s...
Homemade Chai Concentrate
A friend passed this recipe on to me, and I finally got around to testing it out this past week. It’s perfect for these cold winter days, when our fingers...
Spiced Hot Chocolate Mix
Cold days are perfect for curling up on the sofa with a warm blanket, a good book and a cup of delicious hot chocolate. I love love love this spiced...
Sweet Potato and Butternut Squash Soup
Soup. I love soup, especially through the colder months. There’s something comforting about a bowl of warm soup and some fresh bread. I love that it’s easy to make, you...
Gingerbread Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
I came down with a cold over the weekend, nothing bad – just a stuffy head and sniffly nose. Enough to make me feel like not doing too much! Thankfully...
Peppermint Creams & reviving a tradition
When I was a little girl, we used to have a big bonfire every year. We would start building it months before November, and as the fire grew bigger and...
Easy, no-rise bread dough
Happy Monday friends! I had a lovely weekend, unplugged – avoiding the noise and business of this online world – it was bliss :) Back to work mode today, and...
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...
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...