I have a love hate relationship with coconut flour. I’ve never been overly impressed with it and find anything that I make with it too dense. These gluten free chocolate bars have swayed me back to the coconut flour corner.

red velvet smoothie from Nespresso The Red Velvet Smoothie from the Nespresso Facebook page is a great tasting breakfast smoothie. Coffee, beetroot, frozen banana, pitted Medjool dates, coconut milk and cacao. It tasted like a sweet iced mocha. https://www.facebook.com/Nespresso.AU/videos/945343562255559/ directions It doesn’t get any simpler than …

This is a lovely salad for a warm summer evening. Well actually it’s good for anytime of the year really. Sweet mangos, spicy chilli, crunchy noodles and succulent beef.

With an excess amount of gingerbread men I needed an excuse the grind them up for something useful. I love a baked cheesecake and the men make for a great base. I turned the filling into a chai flavour to complement the gingerbread base.

These little gems are a firm favourite for any entertaining and my go to recipe when asked to bring a plate of food. Kids and adults love them and they are every easy to make! They freeze well too.

An absolute favourite biscuit from my childhood is the peanut butter crinkles out of the Australian Women’s Weekly Big Book of Beautiful Biscuits (published in the early 80s). They are sweet and savoury with a shortbread texture.

carrot, apple, dates, almonds and rice salad CADA rise salad is a simple and tasty side dish to a main meal. ingredients  carrot apple dates almonds cooked, warm rice baby spinach tbsp sweet chilli sauce or relish tbsp cream cheese (optional) directions  Pulse in a …

Little boys love dinosaurs and dinosaurs need mud to play in. I’ve made moon mud before with sand and shaving cream that the kids loved but it was a very messy affair!