You know when you find a recipe that is so incredibly yummy and easy to make and perfect for entertaining a crowd, you want to have people over all the time just to have an excuse to make it?

This is one of those recipes for me. I discovered it when we were running the ski [...]

Recently, we went away for a long weekend to a colonial town and stayed in a beautiful old restored house, operating as a B&B. The breakfast was a very traditional Mexican dish, known as Huevos Rancheros. It’s something I’ve been wanting to try ever since we moved here, and I can’t believe it took so [...]

I haven’t made dumplings for so long and yesterday when I was trying to think of something to do with mince that was a bit more interesting than Spaghetti Bolognaise I came upon my dumpling recipe.
My husband loves dumplings and usually I put them on top of a veal goulash or a traditional beef casserole [...]

Of course, I had to make Anzac Biscuits today, seeing as how its ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. A day when we remember the troops who fought and died at Gallipoli in the First World War and when we pay homage to diggers, past and present who have fought for Australia. I am [...]

After our idyllic honeymoon in the snow in Whistler baking Choc Chip Cookies, we were obsessed with finding a way to spend another season skiing. The only way to do it was to find jobs in the ski-fields, and since we were spending the summer in London, the perfect place to look for work was [...]

My Nanna was famous for her Chocolate Caramel Slice, which we always called Chocolate Value in our family. She was famously making it from at least the 70s, when my Grandfather was a University professor and warden of one of the colleges. They lived in for a few years and would host an afternoon tea [...]

I have been making this recipe for years, so when we moved to Mexico I was interested to see how my recipe compared to the real thing. For a start they call it Carne con Chile here which actually makes much more sense - Meat with Chilli, not Chilli with Meat (unless your version is [...]

A stir-fry is always one of my last-minute fail safe recipes that I turn too when I’ve had no time to think about dinner until late afternoon. I always have the makings in the house and to be honest, a lot of the time I make it up as I go. I just use whichever [...]

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 [...]