On Saturday I roasted tomatoes. I am not sure how many tomatoes were roast, but there was a lot. I cut each roma tomato in halves or quarters and roasted them on big baking trays in the oven, drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with basil leaves and shards of home grown garlic. I wished […]
Apple Berry Pockets
‘Hand Pie’ is the trendy name for them, and they the flavour of the month at the moment, and with good reason. But, since we are far from trendy, we call them ‘pockets’ in this house. Just like we do with every other folded over food, like pizza pockets. But these apple berry pockets are […]
Adventures in Cooking from Scratch – Mmmm Burritos!
My kids would eat Tacos every meal in the summer time. That’s why I learned to make my own taco seasoning and my own flour tortillas. But I try not to buy veggies that are totally out of season, so now that the cold weather is here, I’m not buying fresh tomatoes and cucumbers which […]
A Quick Biscuit Recipe Round-up.
The start of another school week and another round of school and kinder (preschool) lunches and snacks to be made. I try hard not to buy too many pre-made snacks and treats for school lunches. I’m no snack saint, I have a stash of sweet biscuits for those days when I just can’t be bothered, […]
My World Famous Ginger Biscuits!
Ok so maybe not world famous (only famous to my family and a few of the north westers!) and I can’t take any of the credit since I got the original recipe from this awesome blog but for anyone who has asked here is the recipe. It’s pretty much what is on the blog with […]