Month: September 2013
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Easy Spiced Chickpea and Carrot Salad Recipe
Canned chickpeas are an essential part of the average vegetarian kitchen store cupboard. Of course, in an ideal world, you soak and cook your chickpeas from scratch but we don’t live in an ideal world and nothing beats the convenience of being able to open a can of chickpeas and make a quick meal. The…
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Easy Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Buttermilk and Creamy Brown Sugar Icing
Last Thursday night, I had to make a quick batch of chocolate cupcakes for a cake stall at my son’s school on Friday morning. After a swimming lesson and a trip to the shops, it was past six o’clock before we got home and I started dinner. My son had requested chocolate cupcakes so I…
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Perfect Finger Food: Authentic Maltese Pastizzis for Parties
I always think of pastizzi as being a particularly Sydney food phenomenon. This may be because what is now known as The Original Maltese Cafe in Darlinghurst has been making pastizzis in Sydney since 1952. The cafe has expanded in size and number of locations over the years but they still make a mean pastizzi.…
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Wholesome Brown Sugar Oat Biscuits Recipe
Just over a week ago, a friend had her baby four weeks early, which threw everyone around her into a bit of a spin: nobody was prepared for such an early arrival. For my first official visit to see the baby at home, I rushed out and bought a present, dragged a loaf of banana…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 