Maple Glazed Hot Cross Buns

Maple Glazed Hot Cross Buns

Easter is all about Hot Cross Buns and for years we have had to endure hard lumps commercially made to look like a hot cross bun. Last year I experimented with my Mother’s traditional Hot Cross Bun recipe and created it gluten free. When fresh out of the oven...

Corned Beef Nitrate Free

Was looking for another cold meat option I could make for lunches and tried out making our own corned beef. Not only was it delicious hot but scrumptious on wraps and sandwiches. We now continually have a piece of beef in brine ready for cooking! By the way this is...
Bacon Nitrate Free

Bacon Nitrate Free

My family LOVES bacon. So when we tested and found that our little man could not have nitrates the challenge became making bacon. We did not care that he could no longer eat processed meat as it is easy to bake beef/chicken/lamb etc and used sliced during the week for...
Apple Raspberry Loaf

Apple Raspberry Loaf

Being gluten free and finding easy delicious and healthy cakes is some what challenging. This recipe is my go to for afternoon tea for the kids. Being nut free it can also go into the lunch boxes.  It is easy to make, just have to be patient as it takes an hour to...
Digestive Smoothie

Digestive Smoothie

There is the old adage … if it tastes bad it must be good for you. Not sure about your house but in mine this does not work. If it tastes bad then no chance is it going to be ingested by kids or Mum alike. Medicine can be delicious as well as efficacious. So...
Bone broth

Bone broth

Stock is one of the most important base ingredients you can make in your kitchen. There is not one stock on the market that does not contain MSG … I know the label says MSG free but it is not. There are many ways to relabel MSG to confuse and hoodwink the...