The oven is doing double time round here. Cooking dinners and baking tasty treats. My latest creation is gluten and dairy free savoury scones based on this recipe. I switched out the wheat flour for oat and used soda water instead of the lemonade to turn it from savoury to... Read more →

I have a confession to make. I have started eating sugar again. I just couldn't help it. We've been streaming baking shows recently. Is It Cake? is a firm family favourite and we are eagerly awaiting season two's arrival at the end of the month. Seeing all that fondant, modelling... Read more →

It’s baking season and time to fire up the oven! I’ve been baking these muffins for a few years now but when I went to find the recipe this morning, I realised I hadn’t posted it here. I haven’t baked these since last winter and I couldn't remember the quantities.... Read more →

Still sugar free and still loving it. Especially when I can manage to concoct something as scrumptious as these double choc bliss bombs. Mmmmm. Think rich and velvety with crunchy nuggets of cacao nibs and bursts of dried cranberries. Rum balls without the rum (or sugar). Vegan, dairy and gluten... Read more →

My go-to baking treat of recent times has been this Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. Only problem is, it contains sugar and the girls and l have gone sugar free. The good news is once you haven't eaten sugar for a while, you start to appreciate the sweetness in... Read more →

Cooking is an act of comfort and nourishment. It can also be a radical act of self expression. Or an act of reclaiming one's culture and heritage. Over the course of the last couple of years I have started to learn how to cook some of my favourite Sri Lankan... Read more →

I ususally make lentil soup but I didn't have enough lentils in the cupboard so I was forced to be creative. It's wonderful how perceived limitations can actually be blessings in disguise. They force us to look at things differently and change what we do and come up with new... Read more →

I was reading a Ruby Redfort book by Lauren Child which I borrowed from my daughter. I'm not sure which one it was. Either Pick Your Poison or Blink and You're Dead. In it Ruby was eating peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. She's always drinking banana milk (which incidentally was... Read more →

On a recent visit to my parents in Canberra, my daughters learnt how to make the great Sri Lankan delicacy, string hoppers. String hoppers are eaten instead of rice and are sooo yummy. They are like little patties of vermicelli noodles made from rice flour and water. The girls had... Read more →

Swapping cracked wheat for quinoa? Genius! I'd love to take credit for this substitution but I can't. I ate it at a pot luck lunch and it was delicious. Here's my totally made up version. Yummy! Tabbouleh Recipe 1 large bunch curly leaf parsley, chopped 2 large tomatoes 1/4 red... Read more →