I have just joined the Chocolate Party! It is a great  group of food bloggers who bake with chocolate and eac

You might remember a while back I got some wonton wrappers, broke them up into three lots and froze them. I us

I saw a recipe for baked ricotta on the My Kitchen Stories blog and decided to make it tonight. The ingredient

Adriano cooks on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Part of his routine is to pour himself a glass of wine an

  I have a mission to create small portions so I can't overeat. The two dishes in the photo were for me a

I have made these cookies before here but this time I changed the dried fruit and chocolate ingredients. I con

 I love weekends! Especially productive weekends when I have something to show for my efforts at the end of i

  You will have seen the photo story of lasagna making I photographed in Italy and now I have made my own

I found this recipe at one of the blogs I visit regularly, Anja's Food 4 Thought. I made a few minor changes a

I am back on board again after such a great holiday with family and visiting family in Italy. But all good thi

I have never used skirt steak before but got curious about it and ventured into an unknown realm. Adriano's bu

This is a quick, easy, tasty and nutritious meal when you are short on time. On Saturday we are off to Italy -

Tonight potato dauphinoise is the side dish I cooked for the family. I didn't want to boil some spuds and plon

I have finally made the best gluten-free cookies in the world. I can't believe they didn't burn in our notorio

Today I sent Adriano off with the shopping list which included wonton wrappers. Well, he picked me up 20 minut

I'm sticking with the little food. They are a bit more work but it means I eat less and that's always good. Ou

Left-over chicken and a desire to make tarts resulted in the above works of art. Small tarts like this always

It's morning tea baking day and I decided to make these little gluten-free granola balls using some of my favo

 Today I am guest blogging at the Cravings of a Lunatic blog. Kim is a barefoot cook who hates eggs, tomatoes

Adriano cooked this dish. It is a classic Italian dish with the addition of walnuts for a  bit of crunch. He

  You've probably all heard of the classic French seafood bouillabaisse. Well I made one tonight but I ca

Tonight I made part of one of  Jamie Oliver's 30-Minute Meals and it only took about 10 minutes because the i

I am still trying to lose weight for our holiday in Italy at the end of September hence these wee baby cupcake

Mince and cheese pies are a classic New Zealand meal. We have dairies, bakeries, supermarkets and cafes all ov

  I didn’t discover chorizo sausages until a few years back and what a difference they have made to my

 We've had a lot of granola bars lately and even though each set has been different, I thought I would do coo

This meal has once again thrown me back to a trip I took with Adriano – our very first holiday together. We

In New Zealand we have many more sheep than people and lamb is a common meat on our dinner plates and there is

This is the second of the recipes I’m making from that vegan cooking book. It’s a vegetable paella and I c

You would think by now I had run out of new granola bar recipes and it could definitely happen. There are only

A while back there was a discussion on a Facebook food bloggers group I belong to about some recipe books to r

 I am still on a wraps track since I have more packs to use but I couldn't do the same thing again or I would

 I had to develop a recipe this evening for a firm who has recruited me so I can't blog about our dinner. But

  This one of Jamie's 30-Minute Meals took 45 minutes but I made all of it. I don't know if I have done t

Another one of Jamie's 30-Minute Meals - a fairly simple one because I have been making risottos for years wit

Today is a sad, grey Sunday here in Auckland with cloud cover and constant drizzle. One of those days when it'