Raspberry Semifreddo

    This semifreddo recipe by Belinda Jeffery has a lovely texture; it is smooth and creamy, and the flavour is deliciously intense with swirls of bright-red raspberryness. This semifreddo is cool and refreshing and is a great way to capture that true summer-berry flavour of raspberries. This is absolutely YUM! Semifreddo means ‘partly cold’ […]

Baileys Chocolat Luxe Liqueur with Ice-cream and Crushed Mint Biscuits

    This is mightily good stuff and this smooth chocolatey liqueur is pretty much a dessert by itself. Chocolat Luxe is a combination of the original Baileys Irish Cream and Belgian chocolate that apparently took three years to perfect and is the first-ever combination of real chocolate and liqueur. Try it served over ice, […]

Origin Earth Chocolate Milk – Hawke’s Bay

      Origin Earth is keeping it local by using locally sourced Hawke’s Bay products to flavour and sweeten the chocolate milk.   When I researched Origin Earth’s chocolate milk product I found very worthy sentiments and core values behind this milk. Origin Earth is a small Hawke’s Bay milk company based in Havelock […]

French Toast made with Sourdough Bread

  French Toast – made with sourdough bread. This is topped with a selection of fruits, cinnamon sugar, maple syrup, and the item in the bottom left corner of the photo is custard. Try it, and you will see that custard is a crucial element on the plate with the sweet eggy bread, and cinnamon […]

Christmas Decorations

  This year sees a gorgeous selection of Christmas decorations available. Here are a few of the ones I like (and trust me, I have done a lot of looking about (which I will term as ‘shopping research’) to bring you this list!)   3-D LIGHT-UP STAR   I just love this night-light shaped as […]