Last night, Sweet Pea and myself went around to our friends for lunch, an old school friend on mine from High School. As always I was interested in what we got to eat, how would you like me to come to yours for a meal I really am pretty useless, especially when the meal is [...]
I love this time of year the cold weather gives me an opportunity to get out the notebook I have with my mother’s Dutch recipes dutifully recorded. Given this is now officially soup weather, I have to make Dutch Pea Soup; Snert or Erwtensoep as it is known to the Dutch. This soup is a thick stew [...]
I think I am safe in declaring Winter officially here. Rain, wind and cold define winter for me and so time to break out the old body warming dishes. Last Tuesday it was a pot of fresh Chicken soup and over the weekend I cooked this favourite of my sister, Chickpea Soup. I have made [...]
Sweet Pea, sitting there last night reading his sales reports, suddenly comes to life and asks me why all recipes seem so complicated. Indeed he went further and commented that when he was lad he use look at knitting patterns used by his Grandmother and wonder how on Earth anyone could actually produce anything from [...]
Some things we do, or prepare, in a kitchen which everyone should know how to do, boil an egg, poach an egg, cook spaghetti, whip cream, cook a steak…. You see where I am going with this I have had Sweet Pea asking me for days now about how would he should do that, or [...]
While yesterday’s recipe was ideal for kids to take to school or eat while sitting down somewhere quiet, today’s recipe is more for the dining table. This is still another great way of getting kids to eat fruit, and again is so easy to prepare. Now baked apples sitting on a plate are nothing but [...]
While putting together the last few days of recipes for the children I remembered this special treat. While some of you might think it has a few ‘naughties’ do remember that most of the treat is fresh apple, now that can’t be all bad can it, can it? This is so quick and simple there [...]
My third idea for school lunch boxes are these Apple and Pecan Sticky Buns. My two, maybe three if I include little Sweet Pea, but our secret, I don’t want to embarrass him. These ‘sticky buns’ are a favourite and again I tend to substitute honey for the sugar in the actual bun. I also, [...]
Yesterday I wrote about biscuits which I include in my children’s lunch boxes, today here is another ‘treat’ I include. Carrot Cake is another ‘oldie, but goodie’ and again gets me around the worry of buying commercially prepared food. Like yesterday’s recipe, I substitute honey for sugar, but with the Pineapple and Cinnamon included it already [...]
A customer in Manjimup this morning purchased a Doughnut Bake pan this morning after expressing surprise that the pan existed, stating “aren’t Doughnuts deep fried?” Quickly the staff explained to her that no it was the case that some Doughtnuts need to be baked. Further, they told the customer they would get some recipes posted [...]
2 Apr 2013
For the past month, Kitchen Needs in Bunbury have been celebrating the beginning of Autumn by hosting a competition to [...]
26 Nov 2012
In my desire to satisfy all my friends for Christmas, I looked at vegan gifts to make in my kitchen. [...]
2 Nov 2012
November already and we are starting to look at Christmas just around the corner. We have been shopping hard for [...]
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