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Pineapple and Coconut Slice Cake

Pineapple and Coconut Slice Cake

We had a lone pineapple sitting in the fruit bowl yesterday.  Normally when I do my Sunday baking I will try and use what fruit needs to be eaten and this pineapple was going to be that fruit.  I teamed it up coconut (pineapples most favourite companion) and made this simple slice cake.  It is […]

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Meal Plan Monday #13

Meal Plan Monday #13

This week has a few budget friendly dinners to balance out the cost of the weekly grocery bill.  Bangers (Sausages) and Mash is a cheap and hearty meal served with steamed vegetables as is homemade hamburgers.  A meal I have in the freezer is saving me this Thursday as there will be not many leftovers […]

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Beef, Bacon and Vegetable Sausage Rolls

Beef, Bacon and Vegetable Sausage Rolls

Ramp up your sausage roll repertoire with these super tasty Beef and Bacon Sausage Rolls.  The addition of D’Orsogna Streaky Bacon lifts these sausage rolls to the next level.  Pack filled with flavour and vegetables these sausage rolls are the kind you don’t mind the family eating for dinner. I use premium beef mince for […]

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Microwave Play dough Recipe

Microwave Play dough Recipe

Keeping the kids entertained during the school holidays feels like a full-time job on its own.  The kids seem to reserve all of their energy that they apparently don’t have to get up each day for school for the holidays.  Winter holidays are always the hardest as we love being able to swim in the […]

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Twelve Ways to Eat Well Over the Holiday Season - FREE ebook

Mustard Chicken Quesadillas

During the holiday season a store bought roast chicken is my saviour. You can grab one on your way home from work or in the afternoon and then make a variety of easy dinners that will keep every one happy. Using the chicken meat to make these quesadillas is one of my favourite ways to […]

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Two Layer Easter Rocky Road

Two Layer Easter rocky Road

This two layer Caster rocky road is so eggcellent (see what I did there).  A milk chocolate layered topped with filled mini eggs and marshmallows, followed by a white chocolate layered again filled with marshmallows and topped with all the remaining eggs and ever so pretty speckled eggs. I purchased all of the ingredients from […]

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Your Favourite 10 Posts of 2016

What an amazing and busy year 2016 has been.  This year Cooking For Busy Mums went from on screen to print in my first cookbook.  You guys loved the book so much that I am in talks with my publisher about book number two.  If I can get my head down and bum up during […]

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Rum Balls Three Ways

Rum Balls Three Ways

A Christmas can’t pass without rum balls being made and most importantly consumed.  They one of my all times favourites. I like to make some adult only ones and then ones that the kids can eat so no one misses out. Here is my version with three different options for what you can roll them […]

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Maple Bacon Pancake Roll Ups

Maple Bacon Pancake Roll Ups

Sunday pancake breaky is about to get even better with Maple Streaky Bacon Pancake Roll Ups.  Last month D’Orsogna released its first flavoured bacon – Maple Streaky and it is all kinds of amazing.  The maple flavour is released as it is cooks and then as you eat i so not only do you taste […]

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