recipes – snacks

  • chocolate peanut truffles + my thoughts on “the sugar movie”chocolate peanut truffles + my thoughts on "the sugar movie"
    Like most of you, I often like something a little sweet after dinner when the mood takes me.  Reaching for a good quality dark chocolate can certainly hit the spot, yet lately I’ve found it a bit too rich and not exactly what my taste buds are looking for. As a result, this dark ...
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  • the 10 best savoury toast toppers you’ll ever tastethe 10 best savoury toast toppers you'll ever taste
    our best savoury toast topping recipes I’m really excited about this post. I have a ‘to do list’ like most of you probably reading this, and on my list for at least six months now has been this particular post about savoury toast toppings. They do say that that ‘it’s better late than never’ though don’t ...
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  • raspberry chocolate chip muffinsraspberry chocolate chip muffins
    I can’t take all the credit for this recipe. After moving house on the weekend and finally getting all of my cookbooks out of storage, I went on a baking frenzy. I was like a wild woman let loose in the outback. Think the movie ‘Nell’ when Nell is taken back in her homeland forest. It’s truly ...
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  • orange spiced jam dropsorange spiced jam drops
    Ugly food. Ugly food by my definition is food that tastes really delicious, but looks damn ugly. That’s what these orange-spiced jam drop cookies are. Ugly cookies. I’m okay with that. Not everything needs to be pretty. What I do demand though is flavour, and these tasty little morsels do not let me down. These ...
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  • apple & almond breakfast cakeapple & almond breakfast cake
    This recipe post is well overdue. Apologies, but I have been on Italy time. Usually I would have been bending over backwards to get this post out as soon as my feet hit the ground in Brisbane, but Italy seems to have rubbed off on me. When one already has a full plate why ...
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