We're having a heat wave.  Normally I would like to be cooking on the barbeque, but the Toddster doesn't really "get...

I contend that there is no such thing as a boring salad.   When we were first married Todd would moan when I would say that I had made a ...

     WE do love a good cobbler in this house.   We grow all of our own soft fruits in our back garden . . .  black currants, strawberries,...

The rain is bucketing down today.  It's not a great day to go out and do much of anything.  How fitting for the first day of the summ...

     After baking these delicious bars today I may never bake regular chocolate chip cookies ever again.  Seriously.  Thes...

   I had in my mind to make Friands today, but not just any friands . . .  raspberry and marshmallow friands.   I went to the shops and pi...

There are some days when you just don't feel much like cooking.  We all get them.  Even I have those days once in a while.   Those ar...

When I was 9 years old I saw the Disney film, The Moonspinners, starring  Haley Mills.  It instilled in me a hunger to v...

I saw a photograph of this in one of my Donna Hay books the other day and it just spoke to me.  She always presents her food so beautifu...

Do you buy your herbs and spices online? If you do, when you buy spices do you think about their nutritional qualities? Some have great...

When I was a child we ate only very basic foods.  There really wasn't much out of the simple or the ordinary on our dinner table.   M...