Author: Sarah

Lots of baking this weekend (lots of eating, some exercise as well!).  I learned a lot about various things that I’d like to share with you all – feel free to comment on any of these or add your own experiences! The type of white cooking chocolate used in recipes is really important.  Generic brand […]

This weekend I tried out a number of recipes I’ve been finding on the internet – those I’ve wanted to try for ages, but other things (like life) have gotten in the way.  Unfortunately I didn’t have that many successes … not to say the recipes were at fault, it was more likely my conversion […]

I had a number of successes this week .. and some failures that weren’t actually that bad. Wins: Really soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies (recipe here) Really soft and chewy peanut butter cookies (recipe here) Arroz con leche – rice pudding – with cranberries instead of raisins (recipe here) Not-so-successful: Flourless chocolate chip cookies – […]

I’m giving you the opportunity to have a say in what recipe I next post on this website.  I’ve done a reasonable amount of baking this weekend, although I’ve tried to make it a little healthier i.e. less added sugar, more natural ingredients.  And what I’d like to know is whether any of these finished […]

To all of you that look at this website – I NEED YOUR HELP!!  Grant has given me the task of finding the recipe for the ultimate gingerbread cookie.  He had some gingerbread at Christmas time one year and fell in love with the flavour – now he wants me to re-create it.  So, I’m […]

This weekend I wanted to try something new with some of my recipes.  Just some small changes to various aspects based on stuff I’ve read and seen on the Internet.  Some worked, some didn’t!   Flourless peanut butter jam cookies Recipe: Chocolate almond butter cookie Changes:  Peanut butter instead of almond butter, jam on top before baking.  […]

For some reason, this weekend I decided to do a lot of baking with oats (gluten-free of course!).  It probably stemmed from it being Anzac Day and me wanting to make Anzac biscuits.  So I did.  And then I continued on the oats theme … I know that I made fruit mince pies just recently, although […]

I actually wrote the majority of this post last week, but amongst the moving overseas, I didn’t manage to download the last few photos in time for this to be sent to you just after the birthday weekend.  Hope you understand!! The beginning of April was the weekend of both my and Abby’s birthdays – […]

Last week, in a phone call at midnight, my boss told me he wanted me to come back to Australia as soon as possible for work.  Our flights are booked for next week, leaving just over a week to get everything sorted out.  And part of getting things sorted out is to figure out what to do […]

I’ve had the amazing opportunity to spend lots of time in the kitchen over the past week or so, helping me lower my stress levels … but not my waist-line.  Everything I’ve made recently has just been so yummy, I’ve had to up the exercise routine to make up for it!  But the best part has […]