Quite an incredible slice, its vegan, Gluten Free and Diary free, no cooking involved and its utterly Devine
Carrot and Ginger Cake
I initially decided that I didn’t need a carrot cake recipe on the website but then I made this one by Nigella Lawson and had to share as its soooo good, The ginger creates a fantastic taste to the cake, …
Chocolate Coconut Ice Slice
Fantastic quick and easy slice that kids can make and will get demolished incredibly quickly Recipe is from Annabel Langbein’s Free range in the city book .
Hummus
We have been using a few chickpeas of late in Melanie’s kitchen as the aquafaba ( the Brine of the chick peas ) as it is an egg substitute and my daughter has developed an allergy to eggs. However once …
Apple Nappies
I first cooked these years ago when I was asked to recipe test them for a recipe book for students that went away on camp for a month and had to cook all their meals, My daughter renamed them Apple …
Date and Orange scones
So we are in week 5 of New Zealand’s level 4 Lock down due to Covid -19 and there is nothing open, except the supermarket and Pharmacies and I was really craving a date and orange scone that I would …
Komal’s Chicken Wings
This gorgeous recipe is from Al Browns Stoked book and the story to how he came to this recipe is lovely, involing one of his daughter’s friends Mother whom used to make these wings and there was always a competition …
A version of Eggplant Parmigiana
This is a true Italian styled dish that is so gooey with cheese and velvet egg plant , how could something with really just a handful of ingredients taste so good, It does I have served this with Panfried Chicken …
Positano Fish Bites ( Fish cooked on lemon leaves )
In 2019 our family met in the Italian town Positano where we rented a villa for 2 weeks, All our children had been travelling separately and we all reunited here, On our first night we had Chef Vincent come and …
Aquafabulous Mayonasie Egg Free Mayo
Our Daughter Anabella has recently been found to have a reasonably intolerant allergy to eggs, so to find this incredible mayonnaise made with the brine of a Chick pea can ( you can even magic merignie from it ) is …