Layered Chicken Taco Salad

Serves 4 (easily halved) This summer it's been easy to love salad because quite frankly it's been too hot to eat anything else. There's so much to love about this snazzy salsa salad, not least [Read More]

Super Simple M&M Slice

Makes about 15 squares There are so many things I want to cook from Matt Preston's Simple Secrets and Amanda's Slice is one of them. However, I married a dried fruit-a-phobe who refuses to make [Read More]

Melt and Mix Choc Chip Cookies

Makes 12 When I was in the States, I became obsessed with some American foods, all of them unhealthy, all of them sweet and all of them utterly delicious! I came home with a long "Things I want to [Read More]

Caramelised Lime Prawns

Serves 2 (easily doubled) Just like the Caramelised Lime Fish, this is one of those dishes that ticks all the boxes, it's quick, it's easy and it's full of flavour. It's perfect for a light lunch [Read More]

Raisin and Walnut Mini Banana Loaves

Makes 8 mini loaves There's nothing me and my mum love talking about more than food. We'll often compare kitchen notes and recipe ideas, like this banana bread recipe right here. My mum had made [Read More]

The 10 Most Popular Posts of 2016

I know, I know I said I wasn't going to be back on the blog before January but it didn't feel right looking forward into a new year without a little sneak peek back into the old one, and the year that [Read More]

Christmas Marzipan Muffins

Makes 12 muffins These Marzipan Muffins taste just like Christmas! This is the last recipe post of the year and dare I say it, but I think I've saved the best 'til last! As you can see my [Read More]

Cranberry, Almond and Marzipan Cake

Our "surrogate" parents were over from the UK last week and there was lots of eating, drinking and being merry. We've always called them our surrogates, which is most definitely stretching the [Read More]