Everything is bigger in America. Including zucchinis. A guy at work was telling me about the zucchinis he had grown in his veggie garden and talked about bringing some in for me. I didn’t really expect him to (a) remember to bring any in for me or (b) the size of them. So one day […]
The oatmeal raisin cookie challenge
I love cookies … and cookie dough. Which is better, I wonder? Anyway, I was in a baking mode last week and decided to make some oatmeal raisin cookies … as you do! I received one of my regular e-mails with a recipe for ‘healthy’ oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and thought it was my duty to […]
The gluten-free snickerdoodle challenge
Ok, so for those of you following along, you will know that I love cookies (and the dough). And I love making cookie crusts for cheesecakes, pies, etc. Well, I got it into my head that I needed to find a go-to recipe for a cookie crumb crust that didn’t involve peanut butter. I know, […]
4th July weekend
Happy 4th July to all the Americans out there! I decided to embrace the fact that we now live in the US and went all out with what we considered to be stereotypical American food. Lots of cooking, lots of eating, but it was worth every minute of it! I actually had the Friday off […]
Banana custard pie and another FISH lunch
This weekend we hosted another FISH lunch (Fellowship in Someone’s Home). We had an awesome family of four join us for lunch where we served turkey burgers (recipe here) and chicken sausages (bought from Costco), followed by lemon polenta cake (recipe here) and a banana custard pie. Grant has been asking me to make a […]
Chocolate orange cake (Jaffa cake)
First of all, the reason why I didn’t post anything last week was because our Mummy-Abby time was spent on a camping trip, rather than baking. Abby and I climbed up some mountains and had some good chats while trying to figure out how to get down again! This is a picture of us at the top […]
Chocolate peanut butter pie – take 2
For those of you keeping up to date with my adventures in the kitchen with Abby, you will remember that we made a chocolate peanut butter pie for Mother’s Day (read more here). And that it wasn’t the greatest because I played around with the recipe a lot to try to get it a little […]
Leftover chocolate muffins
In a similar manner to when we used up the cinnamon rolls that I didn’t really like the taste of. this week we used up some bought chocolate chip muffins. I really should learn from previous experiences, but maybe I need to stop experimenting in the kitchen for a while. Maybe I should just follow […]
Pumpkin pie
This week, we finally got to make the pumpkin pie that Abby wanted to make a few weekends ago. But the last time I had made pumpkin pie, it wasn’t very tasty and I wasn’t impressed. Mind you, that was also when I had bought some gluten-free graham crackers to make into a crust, and they […]
Mother’s Day weekend
Happy Mother’s Day! Especially to my mum … I got thoroughly spoiled this weekend, with lots of kids in the kitchen time. Let me take you through a run-down of how it all went: Saturday breakfast (in bed): The kids found some gluten-free pancake mix on special at the local grocery store while they were […]