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Lemongrass Kangaroo Noodle Salad
An easy winter salad, with goats cheese, bresaola and sweet potato, to keep you warm and happy on those long cold nights.
The Best Chicken Salad
An easy winter salad, with goats cheese, bresaola and sweet potato, to keep you warm and happy on those long cold nights.
Creamy Roasted Garlic & Chicken Fettuccine
Creamy Roasted Garlic & Chicken Fettuccine Recipe We had the first glittering scattering of snow here in Scotland on Sunday! I always say the first snow falls at the end of November, and this year was no different. So in honour of such a cold, yet beautiful day, I decided to make my thoroughly indulgent, […]
Home-made Sizzler Toast
Cheesy Sizzler Toast If you grew up in Australia, then you’ll be very familiar with Sizzler toast. It was that gorgeously golden, deliciously cheesy bread that would be served alongside the salad bar at every Sizzler restaurant. In fact, it was so loved by people it was the main purpose of many people’s visit! However, […]
Mustard Crusted Roast Potatoes with Crispy Bacon
Mustard Roast Potatoes with Bacon Bits Recipe I have never met a person who doesn’t love the humble roast potato. Crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside, they’re a delicious dinner staple in millions of homes around the world. And our home is no different! However, when it comes to roast totties, […]
Proper Garlic Bread (with roasted garlic)
Proper Garlic Bread Spaghetti is a regular feature on our weekly meal plan, and as we all know – you can’t have spaghetti bolognese without garlic bread! However, we don’t just do any old plain and boring toast. In our house, we make proper garlic bread! This proper garlic bread is for people who don’t […]
Creamy Chicken One-Pot with Spinach and Broccolini
Creamy Chicken One-Pot with Spinach and Brocollini Recipe The weather has been strange here in Scotland, making deciding what to cook each day that much more difficult. The mornings are brisk and chill, whereas it warms up throughout the day to something rather uncomfortable. I like to think it’s Scotland’s last attempt at Summer! But […]
Lemon Drizzle Cake
Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe I’m not the biggest fan of sweets – never have been, and never will be. But when offered a slice of lemon drizzle cake? Or any lemony delight for that matter, I’m completely won over. To me, the blend of sweet and bitter come together perfectly in cakes such as this […]
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream (no churn)
No Churn Homemade Vanilla Icecream Recipe To me, buying ice cream is a risky business. Especially vanilla ice cream. Will it have a nice rich flavour and texture? Or will it be bland, flavourless, and icy? It’s a big risk and when you look at the price of a tub of ice cream, a risk […]
Vietnamese Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps
Vietnamese Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps Recipe I eat a lot of pork belly. There’s just something about the richness of pork belly that sings to my soul. And so of course I’m always looking for new, tasty ways to incorporate it into my dinners. This weekend I decided on Vietnamese pork belly lettuce wraps. Gorgeously […]
Super Easy Choc Chip Muffins
Choc-Chip Muffins Recipe Over the weekend, the family went on a day trip down the River Clyde on the Waverly paddle steamer. Now, when you’re out on the water all day, snacking is essential. And with my family, snacks are my domain. So of course I made my very easy, super tasty choc chip muffins. […]
Spicy Chicken & Cauliflower Soup
Spicy Chicken and Cauliflower Soup Recipe Chicken and cauliflower soup seems to be a British staple, though I have never been too fond of it myself. However, this week I decided to get a little creative. I asked myself how can I make this typically mild soup something sensational instead? And of course, I thought […]
San Choy Bow
More Pork Recipes San Choy Bow (Spicy Pork Lettuce Wraps) Recipe San choy bow is hands down one of my favourite Chinese dishes. I have been eating this for as long as I remember, and loving every single bite of it. Spicy, stir-fried pork mince served in lettuce leaves? Yes, please! And this recipe is […]
Smoked Salmon Bagel with Lemon & Capers Cream Cheese
Smoked Salmon Bagel with Lemon & Capers Recipe Many years ago when I lived in Brisbane, every Wednesday I would head to the food market, line up beneath the hot Queensland sun, and buy myself a bagel. And although I would try to vary my order each and every week, more often than not it […]
Rustic Tomato Salad with Crunchy Croutons
An easy winter salad, with goats cheese, bresaola and sweet potato, to keep you warm and happy on those long cold nights.
Minute Steak Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
Minute Steak Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe Despite my Aussie roots, I am far from a fan of hot and humid weather. And the past week or so in Scotland has been both hot and humid. However, always one to see the positive in every situation, this warmer weather of course means more excuses for […]
Honey Roasted Carrots
I think we can all agree that sometimes a Sunday roast can start to feel a little same-ish. And sometimes you simply need something a little bit different to bring back the excitement of the roast dinner. And that’s exactly what I’ve done with these simple, but delicious, honey roasted carrots. This honey roasted carrot recipe […]
Gluten-Free Choc-Chip Banana Bread
Gluten-Free Choc-Chip Banana Bread Recipe Being gluten-free means that if we want sweets in this house, they need to be homemade. Having a gluten intolerance can be incredibly frustrating as finding sweets or bakes that are gluten-free can be difficult. And finding trust-worthy, delicious recipes for home-baked treats? Sometimes you can be scared to try […]
Spicy Chipotle Sausage Traybake
Spicy Chipotle Sausage Traybake Recipe Traybakes. Is there anything easier and more satisfying than throwing things in a pan and “setting and forgetting”? Or in the case of my favourite sausage and corn traybake – roasting in the oven for 45 minutes! Especially after a hectic day when all you want to do is eat with […]
Honey Lemon Baked Salmon with Broccolini
Honey Lemon Baked Salmon with Tenderstem Broccoli Recipe After the indulgence of Christmas and the new year, I have been feeling drawn to much lighter dishes, especially seafood. And for me, when it comes to seafood or fish in general, there is no greater delight than baked salmon. I do love the festive season and […]
Curry Beef Pie
Curry Beef Pie Recipe If Australian cuisine is known for anything, it’s the good ol’ Aussie meat pie. Australians love pie in all its forms, and I was surprised to find that here in the UK they’re just not as common (or readily available) as they are back home in Australia. And so I make […]
Bacon Stuffing
Bacon & Onion Stuffing Recipe I love Christmas. Adore it completely. In fact, Christmas is one of the reasons I left Australia and moved to Scotland! After all, Christmas is all about celebrating winter, with comforting food, knitted sweaters, and plenty of friends and family. And of course – the Christmas roast dinner. I have […]
The Best Easy Flapjacks
Flapjacks Recipe When Scottish immigrants relocated to Australia many many decades ago, they, of course, took with them their recipes. I was recently chatting Scottish recipes with a good friend of mine, who noted that the Scottish flapjack was likely the progenitor of the Anzac biscuit! This, of course, inspired me to make this recipe […]
My Childhood Lemon & Coconut Slice
My Childhood Lemon & Coconut Slice Recipe One of the firm rules I was growing up with, was if visiting anyone, whether friend or family, never arrive empty-handed. Likewise, whenever we had visitors, there must always be a sweet treat on offer. Sometime these treats would be store-bought, but more often than not,us kids would […]
Homemade Spreadable Compound Butter: Thyme & Onion
Homemade Spreadable Thyme & Onion Compound Butter Recipe One of my earliest cooking memories was making garlic bread for the family. Every Tuesday night, my mother would make Spaghetti Bolognese, and of course, garlic bread was a necessity! Every now and then, however, we would have herb and onion bread – deliciously sweet from the […]
Beer-Battered Fish with Minted Mushy Peas
Today we have another British classic – beer-battered fish and chips with mushy peas. Given we haven’t been able to visit our favourite pub this year, despite this beautiful weather, I decided this week to bring a little bit of pub grub to us. We grabbed a few beers, and then ate our fish and […]
Super Simple Sausage Rolls
These super simple sausage rolls are party-perfect!