Oh chocolate, that most glorious food of the gods! It's one of my most favourite things to eat, especially dark chocolate with it's lovely bittersweet edge. Milk chocolate is pretty good too, but not white chocolate, no that's reserved only for times of desperation when I've … [Read more...]
Caprese Salad
Caprese Salad, it's one of those dishes that is such a signature of Italian cooking. In fact, this salad isn't even cooking. Just beautiful fresh ingredients with barely any preparation and you have a total taste explosion. Of course, such simplicity can also bring you undone … [Read more...]
Roasted & Salted Nuts
I am a complete sucker for a crunchy, salty snacks. I love the salty hit you get from potato chips and as delicious as they are, sadly... they're just not that good for you. Why do delicious things have to be unhealthy? Enter these fabulous golden roasted and salted nuts to … [Read more...]
Oatmeal cookies – ANZAC style
These Anzac biscuits are on regular rotation here, they are a favourite of my Dad's. This is also where we run into a translation issue as biscuits in America are a very different thing to biscuits in Australia. What we call biscuits are cookies in America. Which actually … [Read more...]
Seed & Nut Bread
Oops, that turned out to be a much longer break than I planned it to be, especially when I’m only a few posts in. It’s amazing how life gets in the way sometimes, although to be honest there was a bit of laziness involved too! Anyway, I am back and plan to post much more … [Read more...]