We don't have lamb chops as often as the kids would like, mainly because with the number of chops they eat eac

Calling this a recipe is probably a bit of a stretch really! But I am making my way through all the recipes th

This Pasta Amatriciana recipe is a very quick pasta sauce that can be made in advance.  I will often make it

Pan Fried Fish and Salad, like the Roast Chicken from last week, was one of the first "real meals" I learnt to

Scrambled Eggs often appears on our menu plan for a Friday. That is for two reasons - the kids love them and r

This recipe is based on a quite ancient Women's Weekly Basics Cook Book. It was the first roast I ever cooked.

Greek Rice Salad was another recipe I cooked for the first time last year for our Greek inspired Christmas men

I made these Honey Joys a couple of weekends ago for our youngest's third birthday party. They went down a tre

Watermelon and Feta Salad is very popular at the moment! I made it for the first time for our Greek inspired C

My kids love smoothies. They also adore raspberries, so a berry smoothie made with raspberries is their idea o

When I told a friend before Christmas that I was having a Greek inspired menu plan, she told me about a salad

In the words of my 13 year old "This stuff is amazing!". I have never made caramel popcorn before, so was very

This is a great super easy recipe that you can make in a day or so in advance. I made individual Olive Oil Cho

This post is part of my 10 week Christmas Preparation Plan for 2011. I have had a super busy last couple of da

Props to my dear friend Lou for this recipe. I have posted this chicken schnitzel recipe before and while the

You know when you eat some delicious food when you are overseas and upon return you crave to have it again? We

I was really looking for a recipe to make what we used to call Vanilla Peanuts. You know those reddy coloured

This week's recipe post is actually from Heart Foundation. They have recently set up Mum's United, which has t

  Part of the cooking fiesta I have been on this week to stock the freezer for my absence, was making coo

The first time I had made Butter Chicken in the slow cooker was when we had Mr I's nana over for dinner and I

This recipe comes from a book by Susan Austin called Frost Bite: Easy Cooking for Your Freezer. Susan sent me

It was quite hard to photograph these frozen banana ice creams. I did take a couple of shots of the kids eatin

This Snowballs recipe is very different from the Chocolate Snowballs recipe I posted a few months ago. This is

I cooked this super tasty Halloumi (Fried Cheese) on Sunday at my sister's house. The exciting thing about thi

This recipe for Italian Meatballs is a hybrid of ones I looked at online and in recipe books. This meal was a

These Coconut Macaroons with Chocolate are gluten free, kid friendly and easy to make. I had three helpers whe

At the Bloggers Brunch I attended recently, Weight Watchers were the key sponsor of the event and in the goody

This recipe is so easy the younger kids (7 & 5) can do pretty much all of it without my help now. These Ra

This very cute Chocolate Christmas Tree is easy to make and a perfect treat to get the kids in the kitchen to

My kids loved these. What they loved more however was saying "chicken balls". They dared me to call this post

I based this recipe on one I found on the very lovely blog Life In The Country. I have just completed a Blog B

As I served up a helping of Beef Goulash and Dumplings to my 12 year old for dinner, he looked at the cook boo

This recipe comes from a cook book my kids school sold as a fundraiser a couple of years ago, it has some pret

I love risottos, but unfortunately my kids do not. I have noted on the blog before that they don't like the "m

Like most mums, I received an assortment of gifts on Mother's Day from my kids, a mix of handmade and bought f

I usually make a super quick and super plain version of Spaghetti Bolognese. I have been looking for awhile fo