Have you often wondered what all the hype is lately with Coconut oil and how to implement it into your cooking? Below I will try to break down the benefits of cooking with coconut oil in a nutshell… and hope you gain some healthy insight. When cooking food to high temperatures, more often than not, you run the risk of creating heat-induced damage to your food. The oils you choose […]
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Recently my large Le Creuset got a crack in it and so I was devastated as coming into Winter, it is the one thing I just cannot live without for all those comforting dishes I love to make… and love even more to eat! So after humming and harring about whether to get a slow cooker or a pressure cooker… my decision was made for me when the pressure cooker […]
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Eating fresh figs takes me right back to my childhood when I would spend hours jumping on my trampoline picking figs and eating them on a warm Autumn afternoon… Those days are long gone and so when I stumbled across a fig tree laden with ripe deliciously flavoursome figs, I was in heaven and wondered what I could make with them after devouring as many as I could on the […]
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I must confess, I am not the cake-bakey type. Last week I made what we I can only refer to as “disaster muffins” – they tasted like rubber. Not so good. This Donna Hay recipe is the first dessert that hasn’t been a disaster and I make it ALL THE TIME. I love it, my family love it and it’s always a hit. Ingredients 200g dark chocolate 250g butter 1 […]
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Getting over the flu is never nice… one thing that does make me feel a whole lot better though is my mum’s comforting chicken soup. The best part is that it is so simple and quick to make that you can be sick and still manage to cook some up in no time! Ingredients 1 Tbsp butter 1 Tbsp olive oil 2 cloves garlic 1 onion diced 3 x carrots […]
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