All it takes is three ingredients! I haven’t made coconut ice for years and while prevalent in the 70’s at just about every church fete, school fair and fundraiser, it seemed to then just disappear off the scene. But recently I’ve seen coconut ice pop up in a few different places so I’m thinking all […]
How to Make Your Own Bacon
October 20, 2014 By 36 Comments
It’s Day 9 of our 10-Day Tour and we’re still in Sydney. A few suburbs away from Tania (where we were yesterday) is Lorraine, Australia’s Uber-Blogger from Not Quite Nigella. When I first started blogging I was a little bit lonely because I didn’t yet have any cyber-friends and the only person commenting on (and reading) my […]
Flourless Double Chocolate Cake
October 15, 2014 By 36 Comments
So far in this series we’ve made a vegetarian tart, baked some melt-in-the-mouth cookies, braised some ribs cooked in rum and coke and pickled some watermelon rind. Today we’re half-way through this series and by way of celebration we’re indulging in a dark, double chocolate, chocolate cake that also happens to be gluten-free. The recipe […]
Easy Pickled Watermelon Rind
October 14, 2014 By 31 Comments
After visiting Maureen, Liz and Rebecca, we’ve had to leave the East Coast of Australia and head to the USA. We’ve landed but I just don’t know where. We’re visiting John from Kitchen Riffs and I know he used to work and live in Manhattan and I know he’s now semi-retired and has left New […]
Bundy and Coke Braised Beef Ribs
October 13, 2014 By 29 Comments
We’ve been in Queensland visiting Maureen on the Sunshine Coast and Liz on the Gold Coast but now we’re down in the Australian Capital Territory where we have our capital city, Canberra. For many reasons a lot of people in Sydney like to think Sydney is the capital, especially as some of our Prime Ministers […]
Baby Pea, Mint and Asparagus Salad
September 17, 2014 By 38 Comments
I didn’t raise my Archie to be cruel. But a few days ago he was watching some old home videos. And the video footage isn’t that old; just 18 years old which went by like three or four. But he came down from his bunker and said, ‘Mum, I’m really shocked; I’ve just been looking […]
Gluten-Free Banana and Hazelnut Cake
September 16, 2014 By 35 Comments
After her whirlwind visit, my sister Em, is now on a plane flying back to her husband and two sons in LA. It was a very brief and rushed visit and I was very grateful we managed to find a few moments to spend together. As most of you are aware, we spent Sunday together […]
Candied Citrus Peel
September 10, 2014 By 24 Comments
When I was growing up my mother loved to host dinner parties. This was in the 70’s and not the era of dialling in a caterer, ordering in pre-cooked meals or even driving to the local deli for an antipasto platter. That isn’t to say that some didn’t take a few shortcuts. I remember being […]
Gluten-Free Chocolate and Raspberry Puddings and…The Charge Nurse
June 25, 2014 By 46 Comments
After I posted my story about the Charge Nurse on the cardiac ward, a few of the nurses I trained with read it and then contacted me to swap war stories. This gave us a lot of laughs and we all agreed that tragedy plus time equals comedy. The reminiscing reminded me of another story […]
Raw, Vegan Lemon ‘Cheesecake’
June 22, 2014 By 42 Comments
I’m no longer limping. I’ve been to see an osteopath and after telling him my tale of stupidity (air-headed notion of training for less than four weeks for a 10km ‘fun’ run), he looked at me like he was dealing with a slow learner and said, ‘That’s not very wise’. I said, ‘I know that […]
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