Home Cook Giveaway this month at Frills in the Hills

We all love to cook right?  But sometimes we're a bit short of time or a bit lacking in inspiration.  It happens to the best of us and it just takes a TV show sometimes, or a good flick through a recipe book or magazine to get that inspiration and the beautiful food follows! This month TWO lucky readers will win a Home cooking...

Bloke food - Oven baked maple pork ribs

My husband is mad for ribs and really as much as I like them they really are a 'man's meal'.    If hubby is having mates over (very rare) or there's a footy game he'd like to watch - I always include the ribs.  These ones are easy to set and forget and the kids just go mad for them - cut them up into individual ribs with kitchen...

Pressure cooker recipe: Quick, hearty, healthy soup

Yesterday I was back to my days with newborn twins:  Up to my eyeballs in nappies and living on 3 hours sleep.  Except I didn't have any babies.  Confused?  Well - I manned the Bubblebubs (modern cloth nappy) store for Mathilda's market - didn't get to bed until quite late and up early to get everything in the car, the...

The 'Bake up' and the Hang over diaries

Hello everyone! Now this one will have a few of you questioning me why on earth I would put this on the blog but I assure you I have my reasons.  You see, I don't really drink these days - in fact I can count on two hands the number of occasions I've drunk since I got married.  Kids are the ultimate turn off to big nights out or...

Roast mixed vegetables with oregano, balsamic and halloumi

I know some of you are literally gagging for some vegetable recipes - but I'm pretty boring when it comes to the world of side-dishes and this is something I need to extend myself with.   If you're not a fan of 'squeaky cheese' as my frills call it (halloumi) - this would be great with swiss cheese or even blue cheese... actually I'm...

Are you on Pinterest? We're having a giveaway this weekend !

I have only just gotten into pinterest but oh MY.  You could spend forever on it! What is pinterest? You 'pin' or bookmark sites or webpages that interest you - you can categorise pinterest pages - things like 'recipes'  'sewing'  'books'  'research' 'holidays' 'parenting' 'craft' 'renovating' 'funny stuff' 'photography'...

Try it this weekend: Pork belly with sage, pancetta and apples

Fridays are such a mixed bag in this house.   There's generally an air of relief that the working and school week is coming to an end and if we're lucky, there's at some point in the next few days we can stop and relax - not have to rush somewhere or have a gajillion things to remember to get ready. But also on Friday, with two five...