20 Slow cooker recipes to fill your belly and save you time..

Hello everyone! Are you starting to feel spring edge it's way in?  I have, it's wonderful isn't it? I love spring. Well I thought for all of us busy people who love a slow cooker recipe I'd put a couple together.  Set and forget meals are the best and I love my slowcooker because it makes me feel like I can cheat!  Great...

Saucy caramel cake

I'm going to apologise straight up. You can't, just c.a.n.t. make this once.  It's so lovely and moist, has such lovely caramel flavour without being overly sweet or sickly, it's a teeeeensy weeensy bit addictive.  Sorry about that. It's perfect to make on the weekend because you can make it, eat it over 2 days and give the rest...

Season Savvy Challenge Week 9 - Potatoes

Hello friends, It's Friday again, thank goodness for that!  This week should be fab for me, because potatoes are on the list of things I can eat at the moment - hoorah!  And who doesn't love potatoes? Whenever we discuss potatoes here at home, hubby puts on a paddy-irish accent and say pe-be-de-bee-potaaaetoes!  Always gets...

Make your own burger buns!

I'm struggling for ideas at the moment if I'm honest but this was so nice I think I'm going to make it just for myself a couple of times a week.  Because it feels like a real meal! The buns are sweet, have a crunchy-ish top and a soft inner, add real substance to the burger without taking the flavour from the star of the burger - in...

Should you have kids?

Well I wish I'd read this 6.5 years ago! Ok, maybe it wouldn't have made any difference.. what about y...

Gluten-free Jam tarts

Oh man.  This one was a journey.  I know there's a good few of you who either are gluten intolerant or regularly cook for people who are.  When I went to the Good Food and Wine Show a few weeks ago, I recognised the Spring Gully stand from the Worcestershire sauce.  I was given a sample some time ago and was...

Silky caramel fudge

Well you might have seen me mentioning here or on twitter I'm on a chemical free diet. I've just been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder that hopefully can be treated with some medication and may even go away eventually.  Or it may not.  Fact is, I've had chronic hives for 6+ months now and swelling of hands, feet and lips...

Frugal Fast Food: Cracked the Maccas Hotcake recipe!

I'm a happy girl, because I absolutely love these and always get them on roadtrips.  I make excuses to get them.  I know, it's bad. I make regular-by-sight pancakes for the kids but always lament that they aren't Maccas hotcakes.  Does this make me pathetic?  Probably. But now I've cracked it, finally.  It's...

Winners of Mini kitchen set + 200 recipes for kids

Beth, Justine and Sarah!  And a little extra,I also have something special for Jasmine!  If you could contact me via email - Let me know your postal addresses I'll get to the PO this week! So did anyone take up the great discount over at Mini Gourmets?  What did you get?  I got myself one of the slinky apple peelers....

Cinnamon Tea Cake - post number 1,000!

Happy Sunday everyone!  These weekends seem to go by so quickly don't they?  As do 1,000 posts really.  So this is it, the 1,000th post and of course it's baking.  Why wouldn't it be?  Lately it's been all about cinnamon for me, and this cake recipe is and oldie but a goodie.  It's scrumptious warm but also...

REMINDER! Entries close tonight to win cookbook and mixing set!

More details and enter HERE Plus, get your Mini Gourmet order in by midnight tonight Australian WST and get 10% off - code also H...

The Frills in the Hills Bakery: 20 breads for you to make...

Hello friends! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend so far!  I'll be spending a lot of the weekend writing I think, and shopping.  Shopping for ingredients on my 'yes' list for the chemical free diet my immunologist has prescribed I do for four weeks. I will be making my own bread as part of the diet, so these are for all of...

Orange self saucing pudding

Oranges are healthy right?  No reason you can't have a whole one of these to yourself then right? This is comfort food without too much guilt.  Last weeks' winter pudding was rich and delicious and totally my hubby's kind of thing.  This is more mine.  It's quick and easy, and I like that too!  Should be a hit...

Season Savvy Challenge Week 8 - Oranges

[image credit uberhumor] Hello again! My girls can't get enough oranges at the moment, and I can hardly cook with any because they seem to be scoffing them down at a rate of knots!  I'm not complaining really, they haven't had a cold in I don't know how long and this cold weather we're having breeds those icky bugs, so touch wood...

Caramelised onion quiche

What I like about this one is three things.  It's easy to make this one whilst you're doing a few other things.  It's not super quick but it needs very little attention.  The other thing is, of course, the wonderful taste.  You might imagine an onion quiche as quite stinky and bitter to taste - this is nothing of the sort....