It's a big call, isn't it? The most Aussie rocky road ever? I have a reputation for making Aussie desserts; about this time of year I start fielding questions from friends and family about when I'm ...
recipes
11 fun ideas for Christmas cooking with kids
The kids have been on Christmas holidays for fifteen days now. 21,600 minutes to be exact. I estimate that they've been arguing for 19,600 of those minutes, accounting for the brief respite of ...
Italian lollipops | prosciutto, basil, grissini sticks
Do you have created words that are exclusively your family vernacular? Misnomers that the kids started and you've adopted? The (then little) Big Sister once called our Guinea Fowl "Guinea Flowers" ...
stained glass window biscuits
Growing up, we had a red tinsel Christmas tree. It didn't matter what decorations you put on it’s sparse branches, you could not make it look any good. As the saying goes, you cannot make a silk ...
12 days of Christmas cookbook
I have loads of crazy ideas. To be honest due to time constraints (and/or returning lucidity) most of them never see the light of a blog post. But today's crazy idea is the exception to the rule. One ...
how to make pikelets
It never rains, but it pours. That's the yarn right? This week has been disaster after breakdown on the farm and not a drop of rain. The last time I blogged about how dry the farm was, it rained. ...