Category: The Blog!

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 […]

This website is called ‘Cook at home’, but my blog this week is titled ‘Cooking away from home’ … interesting! I am travelling.  Again.  But this time I am blessed to be staying with my in-laws and they have graciously allowed me to invade the kitchen when the baking craving hits.  And those of you […]

I have made it my mission to go through all my recipes on here so far and take photos of the finished products that I make myself.  And if that means that I have to re-visit some of my favourite recipes, and have to taste them to make sure they really represent the recipe, then, […]

Today I thought I’d try some experiments with my chocolate crackle cookie recipe.  I guess I should have paid attention to the old adage – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!   For those of you keeping up with my adventures, you will recall I tried substituting the milk chocolate and cocoa powder with […]

I didn’t get to post a blog (or cook, for that matter) last weekend as I was travelling, but as soon as I got back I got right back into the kitchen and tried out a few things. Almost as soon as I got home from the airport I went into Monster Cookie mode!  I had thoughts […]