Recipes

Penny’s Pastry Pinwheels

Penny’s Pastry Pinwheels

Pastry, cheese and chutney are always staple ingredients in my kitchen. So these are the perfect answer for when you don't know what to make. Not only is this recipe great for a quick and easy smoko idea, but it is also a great recipe to have up your sleeve for when...

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Peppermint Slice

Peppermint Slice

An easy no bake - no fail slice This is an all time favourite recipe of mine. I don’t particularly like cutting slices with solid chocolate toppings, which coincidentally a lot of peppermint slice recipes have, because I can never get through the whole slice without...

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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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Soft and Sweet Date Scones

Soft and Sweet Date Scones

If you follow along on instagram you'll know this is my go to recipe for sweet scones, it’s just so adaptable. Here are many reasons why this recipe is so adaptable. You can use the following alternative ingredients to make this recipe suit you; You could use either...

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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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Date and Walnut Cake to Feed a Crowd

Date and Walnut Cake to Feed a Crowd

A moist, rich cake with glorious coffee icing Sometimes when you taste a cake you just have to have the recipe.  For one of my followers Kirsty and her mum, who were working in the shearing sheds at the time - this was the case.   The farmer's wife was happy...

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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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Quick Salmon Quiche

Quick Salmon Quiche

I know this a contentious issue in most farming households.  Apparently real men don’t eat quiche!  Even though a bacon and egg pie is acceptable - a quiche however is considered a sin. It doesn’t mean you can’t not make it though, and I'm sure if you don’t...

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