Coconut Shards (Recipe by Ray McVinnie)

    These are very similar to brandy snaps but are cooked in the oven in one large ‘sheet’ and then broken up into shards. I came across this recipe in the glossy supplement of the Sunday Newspaper. It is a recipe by Ray McVinnie, Cuisine Magazine’s Food Editor, and MasterChef judge. Mum and I […]

Instant Feijoa Ice-cream by Nadia Lim

      This recipe makes quite a lot of ice-cream, and it is a nice light caramel colour. We were still eating this ice-cream for dessert several nights after we first made it. We found that the flavour keeps getting better and stronger as time goes on. So it is good to make ahead […]

Easter Holidays

  A selection of eggs and chocolate for an egg-scellent ‘healthy’ Easter feast : Creme Egg, Green Eggs (feijoas), and Candy Covered Chocolate Eggs. (We did actually have a boiled egg for Easter Breakfast followed by the traditional Creme Egg, egg-cetera, egg-cetera). Mum had just read an article and commented on how eating dark chocolate […]