When I first made these, it was for a Thermomix demo with a few of my friends, and they were all impressed (as was I) with how soft, and moreish these chicken nuggets, made from chicken breasts actua...
My friends had bought me a chocolate cookbook a few years ago, and there was a recipe in there for chocolate cake with beetroot. It’s been on my list for a while, and I also found this recipe i...
“You know the funny thing about your cooking? …. There is always a new piece of crockery I’ve never seen before, and there is only usually one of it” – Hamsley It’...
Hamsley and I were lucky enough to be invited down to Mornington with a few others, to sample the food at Counting House. The name Counting House is based on the nursey rhyme – Sing a Song of S...
I get my sweet, chocolaholic tooth from my Grandma. I remember visiting her when she used to live in the country, she had a chocolate drawer in her kitchen, and after dinner I was allowed one treatie...
With a recipe named Really Good Gingerbread, how could I not try it? Although recipe names aren’t always accurate; Bill Granger’s Never Fail Chocolate Cake failed when I made it. Putting ...
I never thought I’d buy Annabel Langbein’s cookbook; The Free Range Cook, since I’ve never seen her TV show, or knew anything about her. But I had a quick flick through when I saw t...
Every year I seem to make myself a birthday cake. This year was no exception. To go with my chocolate peanut butter brownies, I took along this cake to share with the family. I used the Thermomix tri...
This recipe ain’t for the light hearted…. diet conscious…. or diabetic. This is a full on chocolate peanut butter brownie. Just look at the recipe, 200g of chocolate here, 200g butt...
It’s the season for sweet, crunchy Jazz. Jazz Apples that is! Jazz Apples are a cross between Gala and Braeburn apples. What does that mean if you don’t know your apples? It means they ha...
I can’t recall if I’ve even made Anzac biscuits before. I’ve had this recipe in my pile for years, so I finally dug it out with a deadline… Anzac Day this year! But I got so b...
What better way to have dulce de leche than in a cheesecake? I know at least 10 people who can vouch that this is a very good combination! You can buy dulce de leche, but I heard it can go for around...
What’s not to love about the Easter long weekend? Four days off, you can willingly eat chocolate, and take the time to make amazing food. I must admit I’ve been feeling at bit lost at som...
Happy Easter readers! Hope you are having a great time eating chocolate, hot cross buns, and all the other easter fare. I was going through photos on my phone last night when I saw a photo a took of ...
So a lot of eating has been going on, as usual; I’ve just been too busy or buggered to tell you all about it. So this is a quick post to share some of them. I made this nice sounding orange and...
I was lucky enough to be invited to Werribee Mansion again this year as part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. Last year they held an unforgettable 19th century degustation dinner, and this ...
Top and Bottom: Smoked White Choc, Coffee, Aniseed, Lemon Middle: Wild Strawberry, Pistachio Peach One of my favourite places to dine, The Langham hotel in Melbourne, has collaborated with renowned d...
Simple, easy, tasty… what more could you want? The orange element comes from marmalade instead of fresh oranges. I have altered the recipe below as we found it got a bit too bitter where the no...
Are you familiar with sweet treats that come from India, Italy, Japan, Mauritius and Turkey? I had no idea what sweets from Mauritius tasted like, but at a recent preview event to the Sweets festival...
Hamish recently declared his dislike of shiitake mushrooms. But if I can convert him for disliking poached chicken, to really enjoying it; I thought I’d give it a red hot go with shiitake mushr...
I bought bananas with the intention of doing a granola, but I was unable to go with my original plan when my neck and back starting giving me some serious grief. It was so bad I thought I should have...
So after Cherrie had been cooking practically non-stop from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals cookbook, I started watching the TV show and now want to cook everything from the cookbook. This recipe goes ...
Every time I watch a show that shows Singapore chilli crab, I salivate and dream I could be bothered cooking up crab at home. I found a cheaper, easier… most likely less authentic, but still super de...
I’m trying to do as many recipes that I been gawking at for months, even years that involve the deliciousness of summer stone fruit. There are a few mango recipes that I’m afraid are goin...
Leave the yellow boxes at the supermarket! Once you try these, you won’t need the help of Mexican flavours that come in the yellow box. You may choose to add some chilli if you need a bit of a ...
So it would seem that when they published this recipe on the BBC Good Food Website, and the BBC Good Food magazine, a few things didn’t match up. I cooked from a magazine rip out, and we found ...
Today Iron Chef Shellie turns 4! It’s been another amazing year to be a food blogger. Making lots of new friends, I finally got up to Sydney to gorge myself on Zumbo treaties and there was even...
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Traditional new year biscuits are very tedious to make, and pineapple tarts are no exception. I usually help my mum make peanut cookies, or she will make kueh bangkit, and my aunty wi...
January is a busy month; Chinese New Year, Australia Day, Blog’s Birthday & Hamsley’s Birthday (and my lovely friend Katie’s Birthday!!). So you will be getting a range of every...
Thanks to Christina from The Hungry Australian for hosting this month’s Sweet Blog Hop. With the theme being ‘Death by Chocolate’, this one was right up my alley… but what to ...
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