Food

Cooking up a pizza storm with Target.

May 21, 2013
Thumbnail image for Cooking up a pizza storm with Target.

Brought to you by Target Australia.  There is one thing that brings my family out of the wood works and that’s pizza night. Roll out some dough, laden it with cheese and hey presto they’re all over you like flies. Interesting factoid Suger, you may be thinking, but what’s it doing in a Target post? [...]

Read the full article →

Thai Inspired Pork Noodle Soup.

May 1, 2013
Thumbnail image for Thai Inspired Pork Noodle Soup.

When grocery day arrives with all the buying, the carrying, the loading and unloading, packing and unpacking no one EVER feels like cooking. EVER. There’s all this fresh beautiful produce sitting there staring at us and cooking takes effort we can’t really muster. BUT there’s one thing that helps, saves us from ourselves and the pizza menu [...]

Read the full article →

Lenards Gave Me Chicken aka Low Sugar Fast Meals

April 9, 2013
Thumbnail image for Lenards Gave Me Chicken aka Low Sugar Fast Meals

This post contains items gifted for the purpose of creating content. Mrs BC, Debbie and I.   A month ago {time flies folks} I was invited to a BBQ hosted by Lenard’s Chicken. Each of the blogger’s were given a $50 voucher prior to the event and a gift bag to take home from the event. Hubby [...]

Read the full article →

Leftover Roast Vegetable & Brown Rice Salad

April 2, 2013
Thumbnail image for Leftover Roast Vegetable & Brown Rice Salad

Oh hi, guess what? It’s recipe time. I was putting this baby together over the Easter weekend and thought, I bet you guys would like to see it. It’s simple, fast and can be done while dinner is cooking. Plus you get to use up all those leftover containers full of half eaten vegetables in [...]

Read the full article →

Holy Heck Awesome Chickpea Salad

March 1, 2013
Thumbnail image for Holy Heck Awesome Chickpea Salad

Excuse the iPhone photo please. But you see, when I said yesterday that I was a little stuck for post ideas Faith suggested that it might be time to share another foodie type post. A recipe or a how to. That got me thinking, ages ago, a lifetime of Instagram ago I posted a photo [...]

Read the full article →

How to make flipping good pancakes.

February 7, 2013
Thumbnail image for How to make flipping good pancakes.

See what I did there? Hilarious. Somebody help us if that’s the quality you should expect from this post. It probably is. Let’s face it. So, moving on. It turns out that post Plus Size Fashion Weekend Australia there was a bit of buzz happening about my pancakes. I’d blush and pretend to be all [...]

Read the full article →

Green Monster Smoothie

January 19, 2013
Thumbnail image for Green Monster Smoothie

My Dad is the king of healthy living. He still wear a size 29 waist and he turned 60 last year. Fit, would be an understatement. He is a long term advocate of all things preservative and sugar free. This holidays he got to reading Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko. I haven’t finished reading [...]

Read the full article →

Mangos, get your mangos!

January 15, 2013
Thumbnail image for Mangos, get your mangos!

I have a mattress on the living room floor at the moment. I lay on my stomach, legs kicking in the air, fan pounding away as the air con churns on. It’s cool and lovely and makes me feel a little bit different about working. More casual. Laid back. For now, it works. Today I was [...]

Read the full article →

Peanut & Chicken Noodle Salad

January 8, 2013
Thumbnail image for Peanut & Chicken Noodle Salad

I am always a bit wary about posting recipes here. I don’t want to feel like I have to. Nor do I claim to be any kind of expert or invent mad recipes much to the delight of my family and friends. I mostly find stuff I like the look of and recreate it from [...]

Read the full article →

Let them Eat Cake

December 17, 2012
Thumbnail image for Let them Eat Cake

Yesterday was Hubby’s and my Mum’s birthday. Each of us charged with something to bring for the family dinner, I was going to make a cake. Originally they wanted an ice cream cake. I pulled out of that at the last minute when the weather turned hot, hot and I couldn’t be bothered messing around [...]

Read the full article →

Chicken, Tomato & Cheese Baked Goodness

July 13, 2012

  This is a perfect meal for a couple {like us} or a crowd {like the one I had here during the footy last month}. You see you just keep buying chicken pieces until you have enough for one per person. Two if you use little thighs or your guts are big eaters. The cooking time barely [...]

Read the full article →

Thai Chicken and Pumpkin Noodle Soup

June 29, 2012

  This one is a family favourite. We make it by the large pot full and freeze it when we just can’t eat any more of it. It’s a simple chicken soap base with lots of Thai flavours added. I do this usually by using the Gourmet Garden Thai herb mix as a base and [...]

Read the full article →

Thermomix Egg Custard with Lemon

June 21, 2012

Now the Thermomix, it’s pretty darn essential to me. And when it comes to desserts, it’s the boss. Hands down. And this creamy, thick custard takes the cake. Or makes the cake as the case may be. So this recipe is one that gets a work out around here as a stop-gap to Hubby’s constant requests for [...]

Read the full article →

Red Lentil and Tomato Dahl {Thermomix}

June 3, 2012

This vegetarian Dahl is all kinds of amazing. I add that wondering if ALL Dahl is vegetarian anyway? Maybe it is. I don’t know. moving on however I’m going to share it with you. It’s from the Thermomix everyday cookbook but if you’re a little savvy in the kitchen I’m sure you’ll be able to modify it to the [...]

Read the full article →

Beef, Sun-dried Tomato & Spinach Frittata

May 20, 2012

  Sometimes dinner needs to be easy. Really easy. Let’s face it. Dinner pretty much always needs to be easy around here. Especially in the last days before the fortnightly shop. On days like those I go frittata. The recipe for this one is easy. So easy I didn’t have cheese to top it with [...]

Read the full article →

Egg and Bacon Pies

May 12, 2012

Now I make a mean lazy bacon and egg pie. You know the one where you just wind the bacon around and crack some eggs on it? Yeah, that. But I was flipping through the April 16th New Idea magazine and they had a full blown recipe for bacon and egg pies. So how could [...]

Read the full article →

Brisbane Times Good Food Guide

May 11, 2012

The Brisbane Times Good Food Guide is about exactly what it says it is. It’s a guide, to food. good food, in Queensland. Basically it’s a resource of dining locations and recommendations. you can sort them by hats {like stars but more cheffy, don’t you think?}. Basically anything. At the moment there are some great posts about [...]

Read the full article →

Salmon, Broccoli & Brown Rice Warm Salad

May 5, 2012

OMG, Yes. This is all kinds of awesome. You are NOT going to regret this one. Make it in advance. It seems to just let the flavours or soak through the rice and makes it super delicious. It also means that you can give the brown rice as long as it needs. I put mine [...]

Read the full article →

Carrot Almond & Poppyseed Cake

April 28, 2012

So, I lost the photos of my cake, so I grabbed this one from a cool recipe blog I found called Spicy Icecream. This blog is SO worth a look. Click here to go there. This pic is of their lemon and poppyseed cake. Oh yes, YUM. but, where were we, oh yes, what you’ll [...]

Read the full article →

Fructose Free Shortbread

April 21, 2012

150g Rice Flour 50g Ground Rice 50g Dextrose 150g Butter Method; Put the rice flour, ground rice and dextrose into a bowl. Add the butter and work them into a smooth, stiff dough. roll out the dough to 1cm thick and shape as you like. Cookie cutter, slice into fingers… You know, go nuts. Place [...]

Read the full article →