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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’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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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 my husband’s signature dish. For as long as I have known him (over 13 years now!) he has been cooking this dish and it was on pretty high rotation in his “bachelor pad”. Whenever he volunteers (or is “encouraged” to volunteer) to cook dinner he’s bound to go for a variation of this [...]