These homemade pizza rolls make a great hot lunch or dinner, or pop them in your kid’s lunch box cold for a great alternative to sandwiches. My kids take a packed lunch to school every day. That’s four lunches, five days a week. That seems doable – a piece of fruit, a homemade muffin or […]
Grow It and Eat It – 12 Super Spinach Recipes
I am not a winter gardener. I just can’t bring myself to battle with the frost and ice and mud that we get here over winter, so I pretty much give up gardening during the colder months. But despite crazy icy mornings this year, and total and utter neglect, good old reliable spinach is growing […]
Quick and Easy Flat Bread.
It’s a sad reflection on my crazy life that it is easier just to make flat bread from scratch than it is to load all four kids into the car and drive all the way into town to buy some! But it’s also a reflection on how quick and easy this flat bread recipe is. […]
Simple Lunch Box Ideas
Thanks to one of my long time readers for suggesting this week’s ‘Keep it Simple’ topic – lunch boxes! I’ve been managing school lunches for the past seven years and I don’t love it. Trying to come up with new ideas, dealing with kids who don’t eat sandwiches, and the relentlessness of the task, it […]
Easy Corn Fritter Recipes
A little while ago some friends and I dragged ourselves out of bed early one Sunday morning and went to the Peninsula Hot Springs. It was lovely. We sat around in pools of natural thermal mineral water, we plunged into totally freaking freezing plunge pools, we sat in steam rooms, we walked over bumpy rocks […]
Lazy Bread
I’ve been in love with my bread machine for a while now. I don’t even use it to cook the bread, and I still love it. I love that I can just dump the ingredients in, turn it on and walk away. I love that it does all the hard work of kneading and rising […]
Spinach and Potato Slice Recipe
This spinach and potato slice makes a great lunch or easy dinner that is packed with green leafy veggies. We’ve got a lot of ‘green stuff’ growing in our garden at the moment. ‘Green stuff’ is the generic term used by my children to describe any green leafy vegetable. It could be spinach, kale, silverbeet […]
Veggie Nuggets
My husband ate my blog post. Yep, you read that right, my husband ATE my blog post. I made some delicious little veggie nuggets for dinner last night, and before the ravenous hoards scoffed the lot, I hid a couple in a container in the fridge so I could photograph them in better light this […]