Meal Ideas

Instant Pot Yoghurt

Instant Pot Yoghurt

Ever wondered what the yoghurt button on your instant pot or multi cooker does? Give this recipe a go and surprise yourself! Many brands of magic pot seem to have a yoghurt button function. Have a look on yours and see.Remember I call my multi cooker a magic pot as I...

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Pea and Ham Soup

Pea and Ham Soup

Have you got half a ham left in the freezer from Christmas?  Were you like me, and when you had had enough, you just bundled it up in an old bread bag and threw it in the freezer to deal with another day? Then this is it! A super delicious and filling way to use...

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Two Ingredient Pizza Dough

Two Ingredient Pizza Dough

This recipe is perfect for when you have visitors call in for lunch at the last minute, when a family arrives close to tea, or even as a flat lunch. Today I delivered this pizza to a block an hours drive from home up a remote farm road. It was a stunning spot to sit...

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Magic Pot Mashed Potatoes (Multi-cooker)

Magic Pot Mashed Potatoes (Multi-cooker)

Creamy mashed potatoes that you don't need to worry about boiling over on the stove. There is nothing worse than when your pot of potatoes boils over and makes a terrible mess of your stove top, or even worse when they boil dry if forgotten about (your pot never...

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Overnight Slow Cooker Porridge

Overnight Slow Cooker Porridge

This easy to prepare breakfast can be made in a conventional slow cooker or on the slow cooking function on your multi cooker. You can cook on low overnight (eight hours) or on high for four hours.I can see the overnight function working well for those of you on early...

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Family Loaves of Bread

Family Loaves of Bread

The perfect recipe for making two loaves of bread which are the perfect size for sandwiches or toast. It includes wholemeal flour - but not too much that some family members may turn their noses up at it. And enough wholemeal flour to make it better than a traditional...

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Mum’s Quick Cheese Rolls

Mum’s Quick Cheese Rolls

This recipe will make two dozen (a little more than a loaf of sandwich white bread).   My mum is Yvonne, and in the winter there would be always be cheese rolls being made on mass in our house. She would make them to have with soup on cold days in the weekend. She...

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Hearty Beef Broth Winter Bowl

Hearty Beef Broth Winter Bowl

Winter has arrived in one cold blast overnight. So here is a hearty winter bowl to help warm cold workers, and nourish their bodies to keep them healthy over the long winter months. On farm we all know eating seasonal fresh produce is the most economical and...

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Honey’d Pears

Honey’d Pears

We are so spoilt for fruit in the summer months here, that when Autumn comes we are still craving sweet fruit. We have a beautiful old house at the backyards which has a few scraggly pear trees. This year however none fruited and I was disappointed. So when a friend...

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