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Easy Breakfast Ideas & Tips For A Smooth Start To The Day
Everyone agrees that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but it is often the one where the least amount of effort is made. It can also be hard sometimes to get kids to eat a decent breakfast, particularly if they aren't 'morning people' and just getting...
Easy Coconut Cake
Baking recipes that are quick and easy are always something I'm trying out. If it involves less than 5 ingredients, only one bowl or can be mixed and in the oven in under 10 minutes, that gets a big tick. This simple, but very tasty Coconut Cake recipe certainly gets...
Butter Chicken Curry
I wasn't really sure why this curry dish was called Butter Chicken because the recipe I was taught (during a local cooking class) had no butter at all. So, I did a little research and it turns out the original recipe developed a looong time ago, did use butter to...
Roasting A Whole Chicken In The Slow Cooker
There is rarely a week that goes by when I don't cook a whole chicken either by roasting it or cooking it in the slow cooker. Both ways I get a quick and easy meal, plus a carcass that is used to make stock for another day. Cooking a whole chicken in the slow cooker...
Perfect Porridge – Recipe and Topping Ideas
At this time of year, porridge is standard breakfast fare in our house. It's always been a favourite of mine and I still remember when Mum (who was very challenged in the kitchen, but could do porridge) served it sprinkled with brown sugar and a (big) dot of butter....
Bubble Bread (or Biscuits)
Question: When is a bread not really a bread? Answer: When it's Bubble Bread OK, I realise this needs some explaining so here goes. I recently made this 'bread' to go with a batch of soup (Pea and Ham) and although the recipe calls it 'bread', it came out more like...
Minimising Food Waste – A Plan of Attack
Wasting food is something we are all guilty of, although some people are definitely better at it than others 🙂 I find that I tend to go through periods where I become acutely aware of how much we are wasting and start to make a concerted effort to try and minimise...
Super Sesame Snaps
One of my favourite treats growing up were Sesame Snaps which were basically little thin crisp morsels of sesame seeds and lots of sweetness. They were delicious, crunchy and very addictive. The only problem was that they would all stick together so usually you...