Donna Hay’s Lemon Yoghurt Cake

Serves 10-12 What do you do when life gives you lemons? I make lemon cake. When I was back in the mother country recently, we had an excess of both yoghurt and lemons so making this cake was [Read More]

Nigella’s Buttermilk Birthday Cake

This is the only birthday cake recipe you'll ever need. It's super easy, keeps it's shape and tastes all kinds of delicious!  I think it was Julia Childs who said "a birthday party without [Read More]

Bill’s Vanilla Whipped Buttercream

I've been fan girling over Bill Grainger for years and this has to be my favourite Bill recipe - it makes perfect buttercream every single time! I first gave it a go when I made Bill's Cake for a [Read More]

No Bake Biscuit Fudge Slice

Cuts into 16 squares You just need a handful of pantry staples to whip up this no bake fudgy chocolatey biscuit slice! I think I found this recipe in an old magazine. It's one of those totally [Read More]

Pea and Cream Cheese Pie

 Serves 4 This  posh pie is a real pea-leaser! To eat it, is to love it! Ingredients 30g butter 2 brown onions, finely chopped 2 cups (240g) frozen peas, thawed 250g cream cheese , [Read More]

Crispy Onion Rings

Serves 4 Onion rings are probably my all-time fast food favourite! I love this healthier, home-cooked version. Terribly tasty! Ingredients 1/3 cup plain flour 1/3 cup panko crumbs 2 [Read More]

Healthy Super Slaw

Serves 6+ (easily halved) It's no secret that I'm learning to love salad and learning to make my salads more scintillating, but I do love some of the old classics. I remember when I was a kid how I [Read More]

Apricot and Amaretti Cake

Serves 8 generously Now that I'm a wannabe minimalist, I might be less about the gift giving but I'm all about the fuss making, and more to the point, cake making because as Julia Childs once said [Read More]

Slow Cooker Blushing Pears

Serves 6  (low iodine) I love these pears slow cooked in port, they're as pretty as they are delicious! I love cooking in the slow cooker because you can just dump in all the ingredients in and [Read More]

Nigella’s Rainy Day Biscuits

Makes about 24 (depending on size of your cutters) I love Nigella for so many reasons, and one of them is that she collects cookie cutters, as do I. I haven't counted how many I've got but let's [Read More]