Category: Food Hints

Rainbow or Marble cake

Just to brighten up a cake make a marbled or rainbow cake. The easiest way to do this is to use a bought packet/box mix or use your normal from scratch vanilla and chocolate recipes. Make the batter for 1 vanilla cake mix or butter cake mix. Divide the batter into 2 bowls. Make the …

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Chicken pasta salad

First off I have no photo, I seem to forget to do these things when I’m cooking dinners during the week BUT this was very nice you can pretty much use what you have on hand.  Add amounts that look like it will feed your family. I’ll list the ingredients I used for 3 servings …

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Healthy up your biscuits/ cookies

One simple way to healthy up your biscuits is to swap out some or all of your white flour for wholemeal flour. If you think the family will baulk and ask about those little wheat germ bits in their biscuit add a little coconut to the mix or sprinkle some coconut over and no one …

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Christmas leftovers

As our main Christmas meal was at my sister in laws so we don’t have that many leftovers, our meats are eaten over the week between Christmas and new year when everyone wanders over for a visit in dribs and drabs. Our leg ham was cut for our Christmas day breakfast and we finally finished …

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Sort of chocolate fudge balls

I found an internet recipe for an easy hot chocolate fudge sauce, in the comments a lady said that this was her chocolate fudge recipe as well so I thought I’d give it a whirl. I hedged my bets making the mix then divided putting half in a tray as fudge to set and half …

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