Category: Food

Lemon coconut cake

Based on a butter cake packet mix. 1 Butter cake mix Make cake batter to instructions on the back of the packet mixing in … 1 extra egg 1/2 cup shredded coconut Zest of 1 lemon (leaving a little for the icing) Bake as per instructions. Mix the juice of above lemon with the little …

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A Pumpkin soup twist

I made myself pumpkin soup on the weekend, hubby hates it so it was all mine, I can have it any way I want and this was my twist. Substitute half the stock liquid with coconut milk (mine was lite) and add about a rounded teaspoon of curry powder and some coriander leaves (mine were …

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Extra oranges

Silly me bought a 3kg bag of oranges when there was still half a bag at home. My husband likes to juice his orange every morning so we go through a few. Those extra oranges of course can be frozen. I like to peel and quarter them before I freeze chunks as I find the …

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My nut and seed squares experiment

I always encourage experimentation with my recipes and today I was no different in trying something a little bit different. The experiment was on my nut and seed squares, not so much as an experiment as a slight switcheroo. Who knew that adding a table spoon of coconut flour instead of desiccated coconut could have …

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Chocolate pudding log

We have a dessert here in Australia called  Choc ripple log, which is Chocolate ripple biscuits (by Arnotts) sandwiched together with whipped cream and laid in dish.  It’s then covered in more cream, smoothed out into that long log and topped with grated chocolate.  There are many variations on the use of other biscuits or …

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