A light & fresh grain-free summer menu for a relaxed evening of entertaining as you enjoy these warm nights. With lots of make-ahead elements this menu is perfect for entertaining: 3-Cheese Almond Rosemary Crackers, Spicy Pickled Shrimp, Herb Butter Roasted Chicken, Really Good Greek Salad & Brown Sugar Pavlovas & Rum Butter Peaches
With August looming, I thought it was time to share some hot weather recipes - a beautiful grain-free summer menu with lots
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How to Kitchen Basics
Easy Homemade 3 Ingredient Flatbread
Many of us love flatbread: whether it be garlic naan, a wrap or pita bread filled with veggies & meat, but have you ever stopped to read the label on the bread you're buying? It's mind-boggling how many ingredients are listed on the package of something as simple as bread? An average list can
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Homemade Fajita Seasoning
Homemade fajita seasoning is mind-numbingly easy to make & most of the ingredients are things you'll probably have in your spice cupboard. With none of the added crap.
Do you consider yourself a reader of food labels? I like to read anything & everything. I don't use a lot of
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What to do with that leftover ginger…
We've all done it: bought a piece of ginger for a recipe, used what we needed & left the remainder to shrivel away in the fridge or fruit bowl until we eventually chuck it out. Only then to need ginger for another recipe weeks later & then having to buy more & the whole process starts
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Spring & Summer
Blueberry Lemon Glazed Scones
A little weekend baking is happening in our house: Blueberry Lemon Glazed Scones. With a few simple ingredients & a light touch, you can be snarfing warm scones with a perfect brew in under 30 minutes. Ready, set...
For quick breads such as scones & muffins, I used self-rising flour
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spicy sambal shrimp with mango salad
Shrimp + mango + chilies = perfection. Shrimp paired with tropical fruit works brilliantly. Especially in this throw-together, lively meal of spicy-hot grilled shrimp served with a to-die-for vibrant and herbaceous mango salad.
Both the shrimp and the beautiful fresh salad take their
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Warm Grilled Veggie Cous Cous Salad
Warm Grilled Veggie Cous Cous Salad: Thin slices of eggplant, sweet potato, onion & asparagus, perfectly charred & layered atop of almond basil cous cous. Hel-lo meatless Monday.
When it comes to removing whole food groups from my diet, I show little restraint. I have this on
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Autumn & Winter
Mustard Beets with Pine Nuts & Feta
Serve Mustard Beets with Pine Nuts & Feta as a side dish or enjoy them as a meal with a simple spinach salad. With only a handful of ingredients, including fresh basil, this roasted beet recipe is easy to make & can be prepared a day or two in advance.
I'm going to spare you the
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apple sangria
There is no time of quite like autumn. The beautiful colors as the leaves start to change, the prospect of making pies, soups & stews, that sense of nesting. The nights get longer as the days get shorter. Fires crackling. Warmer clothes. And apples. I never truly appreciated the new season's
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warm roasted carrot, tomato & lentil salad
Warm roasted carrot, tomato & lentil salad is one of the many easy, fuss-free recipes I make that I hesitate to share because of its simplicity & rusticness. Wholesome foods that are inexpensive & quick to prepare requiring no great kitchen skills or any sort of snazzy appliances...I
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Lifestyle
Bedroom reno before & after
When we bought our home every room in the old house was a different color. The second most shocking room was what is currently our bedroom. Two walls were the hottest pink I've ever seen, the other walls were nuclear lime green. Being a fan of muted colors, this room made me quite uncomfortable
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Bathroom reno before & after
We bought an old house - 117 years worth of old. Thankfully the big things like the roof, windows, plumbing & electrical are okay. Every room in this house was a different color. The bathroom, which is tiny, was a dark sage green with dark cupboards & a tiny dark sink. All of it made the
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Nightstand before & after
We have a very big bed - both tall & wide. So tall in fact I need a step to get into it so I don't throw a hip out for the mount & dismount. When it came to finding a nightstand/bedside table for my side of the bed I couldn't find anything tall enough (looking back now I have no idea why I
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