Welcome to Tandy Tuesday - a celebration of pasta and 5 ingredients. This week's pasta dish of Tomato, Bacon,

For no known reason my ice creams have stopped tasting good. At first I thought it was the recipe, but after w

As we draw closer to the end of the off season, I have to clear my freezer of the crayfish we caught last seas

The challenge this week was to bake biscuits or cookies. I have a cookie press but this recipe's dough was too

Cindy started a theme of pasta on Tuesday's and I am going to keep to this theme as long as possible.  It sta

from Larousse Gastronomique

For a dinner party, I always start the days preparation with dessert. More often than not, dessert needs to se

I am working my way through my recipe file, and this is the inspiration for my weekly challenges. I loved the

I have been asked for a meatball recipe by Shazzie and I could have sent her to look here at the pasta and mea

This is a great way to make sure that the lovely harvest of chillies gets used up. They make lovely gifts and

I am a lazy jelly / jam / chutney maker - I do not like the hassle of starting from scratch, leaving stuff ove

Continuing with the Tandy Tuesday theme initiated by Cindy and to help her use up that bottle of Vermouth I wa

Nothing can describe the excitement I felt this morning when I saw an email in my inbox titled Congratulations

If you can take the heat then this soup is perfect - I however am not into hot and so found this recipe to be

It is not often that I can find shallots at Woolworths, and so when I do I make sure I buy them. The last lot

For my challenges I am going to make use of Larousse where ever possible. This book is lovely, and I hope you

The first thing I baked for the Something Sweet challenge was a loaf of apple and spice bread. Well, the bread

Woolworths have just launched a new range of pork sausages and as we enjoyed these so much on our visit to Eng

I am going to try and make one dish each week related to the quiz that PinkPolkaDot posts on a Friday. This we

My friend Cindy has prompted me to do a pasta dish post once a week - I could do a post every day, as this is

According to my Curry recipe book you should be making your own tamarind water. However, I saw yesterday that

Pasta is a regular meal in our house, and you will see lots of recipes for pasta on this blog. Many are simila

I have been asked for a recipe for bacon and cheese bread for the bread maker. When using a bread maker it is

On a recent visit to Van Ryn to buy some Angels Share, Dave chose a bar of Von Geusau cinnamon and orange choc

A couple of week's ago, PinkPolkaDot asked us in her food quiz what Gamelli was. I was given The Geometry of P

I mistakingly did not close the freezer door properly, and ended up defrosting the entire contents. We keep so

My main course of a Mushroom Risotto for Ready Steady Cook was an obvious choice given the fact that arborio r

My challenge for this week is to make a pasta dish using 5 ingredients. These 5 ingredients do not include the

For ready steady cook  my starter was a simple onion tart.  With my list of ingredients it seemed to me the

My friend Linden who lives in the United Kingdom sent me this recipe for chicken pot pie for me to share with

I was not part of the #cheeseslut tweeting as at that stage, twitter was something I knew nothing about. Howev

As you can see, I am on a chicken roll - it is comfort food, and perfect for casseroles in winter. My friend C

I sell the most delicious honey from a boutique bee keeper in Wellington. I was inspired by Carey when she pos

I love chicken, done any way, and with bacon it can only be good! The creaminess of the mushrooms and the salt

I cannot post my next recipe until I have posted my cheese sauce recipe. This is another recipe, where I am su

Keeping to the challenge of using 5 ingredients for a pasta dish, here is my next creation. This week I made