recipes – snacks

  • hot chocolate with cinnamon & vanillahot chocolate with cinnamon & vanilla
    This is one of those recipe posts that hardly warrants a recipe, but at the same time requires some time in the spotlight to bring its simplistic creation to our attention. Many of you may in fact already be doing your own versions of this hot chocolate with cinnamon & vanilla, however I find ...
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  • mojito slicemojito slice
    I’m not going to spend paragraphs talking about the weather, but seriously, how cold is it! You would think someone who grew up in country Victoria and spent four years in Canberra would be okay with the cold, but nope. I’m a big sook. My husband is from Invercargill, so he saunters about on ...
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  • silverbeet & dill pestosilverbeet & dill pesto
    So…we finished our house! Wooo hoooo!!! After three years of hard work, a few tears, perhaps a few (thousand) swear words and some very supportive and understanding friends, family and neighbours, we are happy to say we have now officially laid down our tools. The house is on the market and we are two ...
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  • carrot cake chia puddingcarrot cake chia pudding
    Chia puddings are about as fashionable as Nina Proudmans wardrobe (Oz based joke sorry international readers). There are plenty of them on the web, so I was hesitant to add another one to the mix. But then I thought, I have a favourite Carrot Cake Chia Pudding that I think is pretty stellar and ...
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  • easy besan crepeseasy besan crepes
    This is one of those recipes I have been meaning to post for ages but never quite got there until now. I think I was deterred by the ugliness factor of photographing flaccid crepes. Hopefully I have conquered my fear and (hopefully) shown just how beautiful these easy besan crepes really are (currently imagining ...
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