I’ve been enjoying expanding my horizons by doing the US National Food Day Challenge (see here for more details). The family has also enjoyed the new recipes I’ve tried … and given constructive criticism when the recipes haven’t turned out quite so well. So I thought I’d update this website to include some of the favourite […]
A pumpkin theme
I tried a whole pile of new recipes this weekend, and had most of them fail majorly! Maybe I just don’t know what I’m doing with pumpkin puree … and would greatly appreciate any tips you may have for me! Leave your comments below and I’ll give them a go the next time I feel […]
New toys & a new look
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post – not that I haven’t been cooking, as you will notice by the new recipes and updates on my challenge, so I thought I’d just summarise what I’ve been doing since I got my new toys. You may also notice a change to the website – […]
Catering adventures
I’ve been in Canada on vacation for the past 3 weeks, and have been incredibly blessed by my brother and his wife, who have let me invade their kitchen many, MANY times. Thank you SO much Brian and Briana – your hospitality has been amazing! But they have also asked me to do some catering […]
Comparison – monster cookie recipes
This is the experiment you’ve all been waiting for … the battle of the monster cookie recipes! Since I found these two recipes, I’ve been wanting to try them out, but since Australian M&Ms contain gluten, I’ve had to wait until I went to North America again to do this. And then I had the […]
Comparison – brown vs white rice flour
Travelling to Canada has been an eye-opener for me in terms of gluten-free cooking. I guess I got a little complacent with a really good gluten-free all purpose flour blend that I could get from Aldi Food Stores in Australia. I bought a big bag of GF flour the first day I was here, and […]
So much to learn!
I’m currently on vacation (yay!) and I’m visiting my brother and his family. He’s kindly let me have the run of his kitchen, and as you all know, this makes me very happy! It took me less than 24 hours before I got stuck into baking here. But, I didn’t have many things turn out […]
Savoury foods
Most of you would be aware by now that most of my time in the kitchen is spent making sweet things. But I do enjoy trying (being the operative word) to make delicious main-course dishes as well. Trying to make them from scratch, rather than relying on packet or jar mixes, and I’ve had some […]
Trying new recipes
Along with my National Food Day quest (follow my adventures here), I’m still trying some new recipes. However, this hasn’t been without dramas either . This weekend I’ve managed to: Break our food processor, affectionately known as ‘The Wazzer’, meaning we needed to buy a new one … Burn the filling for a special dessert […]
Peanut Butter Cookie Day & the beginning of a new quest
June 12 is National Peanut Butter Cookie day in the US. So, in honour of this holiday, I am giving you a summary of all the recipes for peanut butter cookies I have tried with success … Feel free to try these and let me know which one(s) you like the best. Recipes can be […]