Make ahead baked peach french toast

Weekends of late have been a bit frantic.  Since we got back from our holiday it was straight back to work, so unpacking has quickly turned around into getting ready for school and getting back to the farmgate, stocking up our freezer...  I picked up these gorgeous peaches and right now we're at the end of the stone fruit season...

Make your own tinned (canned) apricot preserves!

' I have a few things I can't resist to buy.  1.  A good handbag   2.  Cute cupcake papers   3.  Gorgeous fruit in season.  I went farmgating on the weekend and saw these apricots and I bought everything they had.  I asked if they had more.. unfortunately not.  I had 1.5 kilos from the farm...

Bookmark this! Frills in the hills Muffin Encyclopedia - 25 muffin recipes to inspire you!

I find muffins are the staple of my lunchbox arsenal - they are quick, easy and produce big yields that can be frozen and added to lunchboxes easily.   I usually like to have two types going at one time, allowing some variety.  I don't put them in every day but on those busy days they are a godsend.  I also like to take...

Lunchbox legends: Banana passionfruit 'schoffin' muffins!

Where did the school holidays go?  We even had an extra week for our trip and it still seems to have flown!  In our house there's usually at least one child who is itching to get back to school but this year, there are none.  I think it's because it's been such a busy holiday period for us perhaps. So here I am last minute...

Our family do Disneyland California

We set out after our big day in LA, in a car, again with Blacklane from Hollywood to Anaheim.  This took about 1 hour and quite easy to find A to B. The kids however didn't know where we were going - I find surprises have two benefits with kids - the build up and consistent nagging 'are we there yet?', 'When are we doing XYZ?' can often...