It's Father's Day (breakfast-in-bed-day), and I decided to get the girls to help me with some baking whilst hubby had a sleep in. These cupcakes only require gentle mixing, so as I measured and added the ingredients, the girls took turns in stirring the batter. Too easy. These cupcakes include lots of healthy ingredients, and turn … Continue reading Fruit Salad Cupcakes
Broccoli are great to have in the backyard. After you have picked the first head of broccoli. The plants shoot out broccolini stems all over the place, so you have continual growth of sweet and tender broccolini for at least a month. Now is the season for broccolini, and we have an abundance of this … Continue reading Broccolini Salad w/ Maple Glazed Sweet Potato, Pine Nuts & Goats Cheese
Quinoa, is a great ingredient to serve as a side dish, main or dessert. Because it is an ancient grain, I feel greater confidence in serving it than I do some of the other GM foods available on supermarket shelves today. Quinoa can be served warm or cold, which makes for a great salad. We have … Continue reading Quinoa w/ Radicchio & Gorgonzola Salad
Recipes for Chilli Jam & Chilli Oil
Feeling peckish?
Perfecting the Mushroom Risotto...
Open a fridge in the Hare & Tortoise Kitchen on any given day...and you will find a jar of home made char-grilled capsicum. Easy to make, easy to eat!!Add a little to pasta sauces, casseroles and paella for extra flavor. I prefer these over raw capsicum because the skin tends to become fibrous when cooked … Continue reading Char-grilled Capsicum “Pepperoni Arrostiti””
Southern Italian Cooking
We love making our own Toasted Granola Muesli. Usually we make a batch every 2-3 weeks, experimenting with various ingredients, depending on what's in season.We also enjoy interchanging various dried fruits and nuts, according to our heart's desire. Compared with the supermarket Granola's, homemade granola is inexpensive and much tastier, especially because you can add … Continue reading Toasted Granola Muesli
Preserving your Tomato Passata... Cook once, eat twice..or maybe five or six times!
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