These apple and berry parcels are quick and easy to make, and are a delicious treat filled with whatever seasonal fruit you have on hand. The last berries! The very last of our frozen berries went into this recipe, and it’s only May! If we ever hoped to save enough summer berries to make it […]
Just Make Pikelets.
He bellowed like a wounded wilder beast. “But you promised!” I did promise, but I really didn’t want to paint, I just didn’t. The toddler add a “I hungey!” for good measure then the chorus went around…. “I’m hungry too.” “Me too.” “But you promised I could paint! Your proooomised!” Some days all I can […]
Easter Cupcake Toppers
I’m all about last minute. Got a presentation to give? Write it on the plane on the way to Sydney. Got a deadline to meet? Finish your article at 11:55pm and submit it fast. Got a party to go to? Make your cupcakes the morning of the event, you’ll figure out some way to decorate […]
Super Simple, Not At All Healthy, Jam Swirls.
Sometimes you just have to throw all your good intentions out the window and make something quick, easy, and sweet. For those times, I give you my super simple, not at all healthy, Jam Swirl recipe. Actually this isn’t so much of a recipe as it is a set of instructions… So if you need […]
Fruity Oaty Breakfast Muffins
My middle boy starts school on Wednesday. He is ready and oh so excited about it all, except for one thing. He doesn’t do mornings. He is five going on fifteen when it comes to getting up in the mornings. “Just five more minutes… pleeaasse’ he moans as he throws the covers back over his […]
Twelve Sweet Treats to Bake.
I may not have anywhere to store all the food (it will be a while till my huge walk in pantry is done) but I have a functioning kitchen again, and I intend to put it to good use! Here are twelve of our favourite sweet treats to bake…. Fruit Oatmeal cookies Apple Berry Pockets […]
Oven Dried Strawberries
We reached critical mass with home grown strawberries a few days before Christmas. I know, I know, it is such a terrible terrible thing to grow so many strawberries that your freezer is over flowing, you’ve run out of jam jars and you can’t bear to eat another one. We have such a hard hard […]
Cooking With Kids – Jelly Fluff Recipe
So I am cooking in my new kitchen… even though it’s not entirely finished! So soon I will have some new Pickle Farm recipes to share, but while I get back up to speed here is another lovely guest post from Kylie from Octavia and Vicky. Have you ever tried Jelly Fluff? It’s a gorgeously […]