Category: Favourite Recipes I Have To Share

End Of The Box Fun Food Pasta


Have you ever opened your store cupboard to find that each pasta container has too little pasta left to make up a meal?

Carrot Soup And Butternut Squash Soup {{ Thermomix Recipes }}


*These recipes are written for the Thermomix, but can be made in any high speed blender. I cooked them in the Thermomix, but you can cook them on the stove too.

Vranameer Chicken : A Family Recipe


The moment I finished reading the topic for this months Carnival of Natural Parenting: Family Recipes, I knew exactly which recipe I would share: Vranameer Chicken.

Festival of Food: Best Ever Vegan Chocolate Cake


Welcome to the Festival of Food Carnival. In celebration of the tradition of Easter chocolates, we’re sharing recipe ideas for healthier alternatives – sweets and treats featuring real cocoa. Hosted by Diary of a First Child and Hybrid Rasta Mama, you’re welcome to join us next time, or if you have a previously published recipe…

Lazy Sunday Buckwheat Pancake (Flapjack/Crumpet) Recipe


Sugar Free Buckwheat Banana Bread Recipe


As part of my quest for gluten-free living, I’ve been experimenting with buckwheat. Baking is such a big part of my life that quite honestly, I don’t see how I can go gluten-free if I can’t bake. I’ve really enjoyed this experiment, and while I find it is more expensive to use buckwheat, there hasn’t…

Easy Egg And Salmon Muffin Tin Breakfast Recipe


Nothing sets you up for a busy day like a good breakfast. An occasional cooked breakfast is always a treat around here, and one the children can help with all the more!

“Chocolate” Date Ball Snack


We’re huge chocolate fans around here, to the extent that I’m sometimes a little worried about it, because it’s just not that good for us.  I found some organic, vegan, good for you chocolate bars in our local health food shop, and nice as they are, I don’t think my bank balance can handle a…

Ice Cream For Breakfast Or Desert


My daughter, Ameli, like most toddlers, loves ice cream. I don’t want to deny her the fun things in life, but I certainly don’t think she has any lack of sugar intake. I came across this recipe for frozen banana ice cream a couple of months ago, and it’s been a regular staple in our…

Pink Juice – AKA Berry Green Smoothies


Food, food, food. It really is my nemesis.I love everything I’m not supposed to eat and can barely stand the things that are good for me. I go through ‘healthy’ periods and the rest of the time, not quite as much. Chatting to a friend recently, she said that she almost feels like she needs…


Food, food, food. It really is my nemesis.I love everything I’m not supposed to eat and can barely stand the things that are good for me. I go through ‘healthy’ periods and the rest of the time, not quite as much. Chatting to a friend recently, she said that she almost feels like she needs to ‘re-learn’ cooking and I nodded along vociferously. I feel exactly the same.

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