The Dutch have a Russian potato salad (don’t even try to figure out that connection), which consists of mainly mayonnaise! It’s delicious, but perhaps a tad heavy. I have fond memories of my vegetarian sister devouring it at a bbq where there was no dish in sight that didn’t contain meat. I didn’t explain to…
A taste of radical
I was just reviewing drafts that I never published….and this one made me laugh. So below is something I wrote years ago, and it’s not finished, but I don’t think I will delete it. Kind of nice to look back a bit. Old draft – A taste of radical…. In August last year, I went on…
Chocolate and coconut roughs
In the last 12 months I have had a big turn around in what I eat, and have discovered Cyndi O’Meara’s HGC Elimination Protocol. Last January (2013) I weighed in at 75kgs, and although all my friends told me I was slim or fine, I just didn’t like how I felt. Plus I felt bloated…
Hot cross buns
This recipe is taken from Karen Martini’s recipe in The Age. I used Stevia instead of sugar in the buns and I also grated the rind of an orange instead of using candied orange peel. Really happy with how they turned out, and everyone seems happy with the flavour! Ingredients Buns (this is half the…
Limburg cherry crumble flan (Limburgse kersen kruimel vlaai)
Doesn’t it piss you off when a recipe book can’t do the basic thing they are meant to do, and enable you to recreate it? Well, they have excelled themselves in the Dutch Cooking Today cookbook and got the proportions so out of whack, that I have finally decided to rewrite the recipe after testing…
Date pecan rum balls
Due to overwhelming feedback from my Facebook friends, here’s my latest and greatest guilt-free dessert. Awesome for the wheat-free, sugar-free, fat-free conscious friends. I picked this recipe up today at work, attending a healthy cooking class (I work for a Health Insurance company, so it’s good to see the company promoting this stuff). Never mind blogging…
Wild rice porridge
Another road trip bought me by this beauty of a breakfast – perfect for those of you who want something hearty that isn’t laden with gluten or egg. We escaped down the great ocean road a few weeks ago, and stopped in Port Fairy. I must say I could live in Port Fairy indefinitely. The…
Exhaustion = no blogging action
It’s been a while since I have last blogged. It’s been a mad house here. Literally. In the last few months Tom and I have undertaken the mammoth task of completely renovating a house and turning it around for the rental market. This sounds impressive, but to be honest, we didn’t do most of the…
Vietnamese chicken salad
We had healthy food day at work the other day, so I decided to take a salad. I have been blogging for a year now, but have forgotten to add this beauty to the blog. I only made this salad for the first time last year, and it’s so good that you could eat it…
Crochet strawberries
Check out the ingeniousness of my blister-in-law Rose. She whipped up 5 strawberries for Amber’s first birthday, and popped them in a strawberry punnet. Some people are so clever – don’t you think? I don’t posses the talent of crocheting, and normally I couldn’t care less until I see something like this. What I love…
10 min Asian style chicken and noodle soup
Fuelled by a comment made my my 5 year old (who constantly reminds me that she is 5 and a half!) that I haven’t made chicken and noodle soup in a long time, I whacked one up today in 10 minutes, and it must have been pretty good, because it is being touted by all…
Beating the post natal haze with a blog…
A year ago to this week I gave birth to the beautiful Amber, and for the next few months did all the normal mum stuff you do when in the hormone/sleep deprived daze that is with a new baby. I did however do this with a difference this time. Knowing from past babies that I…
Getting re-rooted 