I love, love, love dates in any form - fresh, dried, Sticky Date Pudding (mmmm), stuffed with cream cheese or on a cracker with blue cheese.
And they are great in this Yummy Banana & Date Bread!
I always seem to have a few bananas from the bunch that go brown before we eat them, so banana [...]

I realise that by showing you my methods for keeping track of recipes I might be exposing myself in all my control freak glory, not to mention a fair bit of geekiness. But you already knew that, right?
I have to confess I am a compulsive recipe collector. I love reading cookbooks, food magazines and food [...]

This recipe is definitely in the top ten favourite meals in our house. Even the kids gobble it up with no prompting or bargaining from us! Like just about all my recipes, it’s very easy and the prep is pretty quick. It takes 1 hour to cook so its not a last minute option, but [...]

I saw this recipe the other day posted by Dee at Words, a new blog I have been visiting, and thought it would be a good recipe for a bit of Mother/Daughter holiday baking.
Sultana Cookies Recipe

They are seriously yummy and very quick and easy to make. There’s plenty of easy sifting and mixing for the [...]

As usual, I left planning dinner to the last minute tonight and almost forgot that I got chicken drumsticks out of the freezer yesterday. I got distracted looking at menu planning and home organisation tools online. How’s that for ironic?
This recipe is really quick to prepare, although it does take an hour or [...]

I really miss Hot Cross Buns at Easter. They are normally a staple in our house this time of year, but you don’t seem to be able to buy them in Mexico. So, I’ve had to resort to making my own at times and I have to say they are surprisingly easy. When we lived [...]

I’d really like to be better at Menu Planning, but some days I just don’t have the chance or the energy to think about dinner until the last minute. So I like to have a few recipes up my sleeve that are quick to make and need ingredients that I always have in the house.
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This recipe is adapted from a Donna Hay classic and is one of my never-fail, stand-by, throw-everything-left -in-the-fridge type recipes. I start with the basic egg mixture and use whatever vegies I have. My lazy twist on the traditional frittata recipe is to bake it in the oven using a cake tin, pyrex or roasting [...]

I’ve never cooked Lamb Shoulder before; never even seen it in the supermarket in Australia, but Lamb is pretty hard to find here in Mexico, so whenever I see it, in any form, I grab it. In fact the Lamb Shoulder is similar to a Leg of Lamb and can be cooked in similar ways [...]

This is one of my Nanna’s signature recipes and is always requested in our house when we have Roast Lamb. I’ve never been very good at making real gravy from the drippings, so this is an easy and really tasty alternative. I often baste the lamb with a bit of the gravy part way through [...]