After many, many years of making school lunches, I still struggle to come up with lunchbox ideas. I still struggle to come up with lunchbox items that are not super expensive, that don’t take loads of time to prepare, that travel well, and that are not sandwiches. Yes, I have two kids who don’t eat […]
Lemon and Rhubarb Cookies
Whip up a batch of these lemon and rhubarb cookies, they make the perfect thank you gift! When we moved from the inner suburbs of a big city to ten acres in the country one of the big changes was our neighbors. We no longer live so close to our neighbors that we can hear […]
Cooking with Kids – tips, tricks and recipe ideas
As his tantrum subsided into just plain old sobbing he managed to tell me he was hungry. That might go some way to explain his meltdown over what seemed like nothing, so I jumped at the chance to fill his belly and redirect him into something more calming. “Do you want to make yourself some […]
Easy Orange and Cranberry Bread
“Can we make a cake Mum?” It was a sunny Sunday afternoon and there seemed no reason why we couldn’t make a cake, except that I don’t really like cake. I tried to tempt the kids with banana chocolate chip cookies, or raspberry and oatmeal bars, or fruit crunchies, but they stood firm. They wanted […]
I didn’t do anything today, but…
“I didnt get a thing done today” I told my friend as we sat watching our kids dance. She nodded. “I’ve had a day like that too. I just don’t feel like I have achieved anything!” “At least we got our kids to ballet on time” I told her, and we laughed. I felt like […]
Gingerbread Cupcakes
Usually when I bake with my four year old I spend a lot of time reminding him not to stick his fingers in the mixture, not to lick the spoon while in the middle of mixing, and not to taste every ingredient as it goes in, but today was different. Today we made gingerbread cupcakes […]
Plain, Boring, Easy, Homemade Bread
When I first decided I wanted to make homemade bread it was a big challenge. I didn’t have a lot of kitchen skills back then, and I made a lot of really terrible loaves of bread. I made loaves that were more like lumps of rock, loaves that were all squidgy and doughy in the […]
What are we doing to our children?
The world is a difficult place to live in right now. Every day there is another news story that makes me want to cry. Some of them seem like big, huge, scary things. Some of them seem like smaller, sad, things. But every day there is more and more, and every day I am haunted […]
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