So I haven’t blogged for quite a while, sometimes life gets busy and your attentions diverge but, as a friend said to me only yesterday, 2020 has begun by being hard on everybody. I read that the bushfires around Australia impacted almost all of us on some level and while we were still reeling, along […]
Some of the best discoveries come from mistakes, the lamington springs to mind, popular myth tells of the kitchen maid of Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, who dropped a sponge cake into a vat of chocolate icing and, rather than waste the cake, cut it up and covered it in coconut. True? Don’t know, makes […]
Who would have thought that when I said to Karen “let’s do a funny little gluten, nut and dairy free cake with prunes and seeds” that it would become our run away best seller, not me, nor Karen, I remember the look on her face! But there you go, sometimes you just can’t pick the […]
I am a bit concerned about my Story Apricot this year, always this tree is one of my harbingers of Spring, first come the jonquils, then the Story Apricot gradually opens its buds until it is as snowy and flashy as any bridezilla, then comes the almond tree and finally, the daffodils start to wake […]
One of the big no nos on my dietary dont go there lists is any type of refined vegetable or seed oil. Cold pressed sunflower seed oil, okay- gets the tick, regular, refined sunflower oil? I am reaching for my asthma inhaler and feeling like I have rolled down the hill at the back of […]
I love puddings! There, it has been said. I love self saucing chocolate pudding, and lemon delicious pudding and raspberry and coconut pudding…..but most of all I love Sticky Date Pudding. So you can imagine my dismay when I was found to be dairy intolerant, gluten intolerant and grain intolerant (no, those last two are […]
