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Chocolate balls (both naughty & nice) plus Santa’s consignment notes…
I've got your last minute Christmas needs covered. There's a classic rum ball recipe, a booze-free, healthy alternative AND I've stumbed across some bona-fide, printable consignment notes, all the way...
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Why you don’t need to detox this year
This morning, lucky followers of my instagram account were treated with this picture. On waking I was delighted to realise that while I definitely had sore feet (from dancing), my head was only...
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And the recipe that won 2014 was…
I've crunched the numbers and discovered the five recipes that you adored in 2014. Did you make any of them? How did they go down with the family? Are they now lentil & vegie-loving kidlet-converts?
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Even Goldilocks would just sit down, shut up and eat this dinner
Most nights I can sit at the dinner table, close my eyes and instantly be transported to a fairy tale. Oh! I hear you exclaim with envy, ‘SHE HAS THE PERFECT LIFE!’. But you’d be wrong, because...
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The dressing that saved salad
Ah, salad! That divisive item that has people either in raptures or hell. Kids tend to fall firmly on the side of ‘hell’ and getting fussy eaters onto the stuff can be tricky. I do have two tips...
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Bugger it, they can eat biscuits all year
My back-to-school stress dreams started about a week ago. After one particularly gruelling night time panic, involving lists, school bells and missing leopard-print vests, I wrote a quite funny blog...
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The sixth food group – food created by Satan
Bless my Facebook page and the funny folk who pop by there, including the lovely dad who referred to ‘food created by satan’. Made me laugh for days, because HE’S RIGHT, some food, whilst edible,...
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A meal plan for the week full of hungry mouths and no time…
Trying to see the silver lining in all situations, I’m happy to report that this year I find myself with about 5 hours a week of extra thinking time. This is, of course, due to the fact that my...
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They know a thing or two about food, don’t they, those Chinese…
My world is crowded by the lucky number 8, so I'm celebrating with Chinese-influenced meals that might be lucky in your household, too...
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5 recipes that bring you unlikely (but welcome) dinnertime wins…
Have you noticed that at some point in most magazine articles about musicians, there’s a bit of the interview that goes… “Yeah, I guess my love of [insert hipster genre] music began as a child,...
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How to make it through winter with warm toes….
Welcome to winter, day one. Are you over it yet? The good news is that there's only about 91 days to go until our feet start to thaw and the little wafty bits of pollen plug up our sinuses. In the mean...
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The one meal that my kids would love to eat every day….
Generally a vegie-smuggling theory of mine has been that too much repetition in a kitchen or on a weekly menu is a bad thing. Dealing with fussy kids is hard enough without adding an extra layer of...
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Five pie-hole fillers, perfect for toddlers AND husbands this grand final...
So it’s grand final weekend – a classic time to gather together and munch on some pastry covered pieces of something-not-quite-defined. It doesn’t take too much effort to whip up your own morsels –...
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Pea pea balls
Shhhhhhh. Can you hear that? That’s right…… Listen again……… Got it? Yep. The glorious sound of silence as the kids head back to school. Just quietly, I might be missing them a teeny bit. The stretch of...
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The dinner that looks pants but taste great
Food styling has never been my forte. When I photograph my recipes it’s always with the general urge to show a dish as it is, in all its everyday yumminess. Usually there are kids hovering and...
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Super yum dinner with bugger-all cooking required
This blog made it into my dreamspace the other night, in one of those intensely real, detailed dreams that have you swept up believing that they are actually happening. In it I was putting together a...
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The end of parenting? It feels like it here.
Last year I looked at my kids and realised that they were growing up. Quickly. All those hours of blood (theirs), sweat (mine) and tears (all of ours), spent on my parenting quest were reaching a...
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All the latest recipes – breakfast, treats & dinner, done.
Regardless of how busy a family is, the annoying truth remains that people want to be fed, every day. So while term 1 ended up being kind of crazy at VSHQ, recipes were made and food was scoffed. The...
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Your reminder to take care of yourself
It’s been MANY months since I last blogged, neatly reminding me of the fact that this has been a tough year. I think all of us have those moments where life seems to collapse. Unexpected events,...
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