Home cooking served with a side of farm life
I’m on a mission to banish brown bananas from fruit bowls across the country, so I’ve compiled the ultimate guide to baking with bananas. Don’t have ripe bananas but craving banana bread? No worries – you can easily ripen bananas quickly using the oven. If your bananas are yellow but too firm for baking, line…
Bananas are a fantastic way to start your day on the right foot. Not only are they loaded with essential vitamins and minerals (potassium, calcium, manganese, magnesium, iron, folate, niacin, riboflavin and B6 – but whose counting!), bananas are also super versatile. Here’s 19 breakfast banana recipes to get you off and running! banana breakfast recipes…
There’s an old yarn that says Fettuccine Alfredo was invented by a bloke whose pregnant wife was suffering terrible morning sickness. Desperate to find something she would eat and keep down, he created a creamy pasta dish to sustain her and their growing baby. I can just imagine this bloke cooking up a storm, leaving…
I’m generally pretty careful about what the girls eat and how we fuel their busy bodies, but on Easter Sunday all bets are off. We let them eat chocolate before breakfast. I’m not sure what qualified medical professionals let their kids eat at Easter, but I figure if they’re going to eat all that chocolate…
There’s no getting around Easter when you visit the shops at the moment. It feels like the supermarket has been filled with eggs wrapped in shiny foil since Boxing Day and this year Kmart has gone to the extraordinary lengths of marketing Easter wreaths and Easter trees – no thank you! Every year I hold…
Remember when our girls had whooping cough? Bearhands and I slept on the floors in their bedrooms for a month, so we could rub their backs and offer them little sips of water during their terrifying coughing fits. Well, I just found a little note I wrote one night lying on a single mattress, unable…
Australia is world-renowned for its Neighbours. Good neighbours become good friends – its a tune the whole world sings along too. Truth be told, living in Australia is considerably less dramatic than the TV show would have you believe. <SKIP TO THE RECIPE> I’ve been an Australian resident for 39 years now and I’m yet…
