Hummus is always a pleasant addition to a nibble or a meal. This raw version based on a recipe from the book ?12 Steps to Raw Foods? by Victoria Boutenko can make a nice side dish or stand as a meal on its own. It is deceptively simple to make and... -

Ingredients:4 eggs1 cup caster sugar1 cup plain flour1/2 tsp baking powderMixed berries or other fruit Ready made thick custardWhipped creamJelly of your choice (prepared with some water and set in the fridge to start setting)Heat up the oven... -

Neil Perry says that "the art of stir frying is the art of organisation". Yep that would be right and there\'s my problem. Why do so many things in life have to revolve around being organised" I think I would be much happier if the art of mild... -

I reach out in lots of directions to get my pleasures in life and one of them is my Little Kingdom in the kitchen. Maybe it doesn\'t look exactly the way I would have wished for.. Maybe it is often too messy.. Maybe it\'s too loud (the washing... -

Whilst juggling between my child, home, housework, studying, writing my dissertation project, writing the blog articles, work everyday, trips to and from the nursery, shopping, waiting for a bus, sleep, occasional eating, etc you could think there... -

A family favourite is home made Lasagne. We try to make as much as possible ourselves, so today it means home made pasta, bolognaise sauce and bechamel sauce.Firstly, make the Pasta DoughIngredients4 Free range eggs400g Plain Flour15g Olive... -

After receiving several hints about preparing some instructions about how I make my plastic handbags, I have done just that here. I hope these instructions might be helpful... -

Thermomix pizza bases are very easy to make. We have 2 recipies that are never fail.Tonight\'s dinner was the yeast based mixture with 500g flour, oil, yeast, salt and milk added to the jug and mixed for 10 seconds before being kneaded for 2... -

It has been a little while since my last post, and I think these grissini are the perfect way to break the drought. This recipe is from Made in Italy: Food and Stories, the quite lovely book by Giorgio Locatelli. For me, Italian breadsticks are a... -

So for this week\'s theme it is soft. What is in the fridge" Grapes. OK. What recipes might use grapes" Start with Grape Bavarian Cream - that\'s the one.So who is Jane Grigson" There is some information on wikipedia here and on the pages of... -

Once I had made junket the next simple step was to make fromage frais by gently cutting the junket into chunks and allowing it to drain through muslin.In 1996 I was fortunate to be at a class at Sunnybrae Restaurant given by Richard Thomas on... -

Well sweet was the theme and as I love making custards in the Thermomix Varoma (steaming attachment) and mangoes are very plentiful at present, steamed mango custards it was for me.The book that inspired me was ?Belle Cuisine, The international... -

Tonight was a great class at Savour School with Janice Wong from 2am : dessertbar in Singapore.I am not much of a dessert fan, but this was really an interesting exercise. There were many fascinating techniques and ingredients used to effortlessly... -

Ingredients:250g frozen fruit of your choice (we used some raspberries and forest fruit mix)2 frozen bananas (I always keep some in the freezer for the emergency gellato fix)100g ice cubesfresh milk or ice-cream if you preferWe didn\'t use any... -

There\'s a book called the Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet where the author Gabriel Cousens says that you should try to eat all the colors of the rainbow every day. Activate your base chakra with red food, the solar plexus with yellow,... -

I am always on the lookout for good ideas. When an article in a recent Grass Roots magazine (GR211) mentioned making ginger ale with kefir powder or whey, my curiosity was peaked. Off to the local health food store I trotted and came away with a... -

This recipe comes from the book ?A Passion for Fruit? by Lorzenza de?Medici. Similar to Lynne Mullins? book ?produce?, it has chapters on each fruit with an introduction and then some recipes.There are many recipes for various berries, but one that... -

Ingredients:30g fresh ground coffee3 eggs170g caster sugar250g butter, softenvanilla extract1 shot glass of vodka or liqueur (clear not creamy, coffee or vanilla flavour, i.e. \'Amaretto Disaronno\')1. Pour 8 tbsp boiling water over the coffee... -

A variation of the Chilli Con Carne recipe in the thermomix recipe book, Instead of kidney beans and tomato paste we substitute a tin of baked beans. This adds the beans content and the sweetness of the tomato sauce. Also only had mince in the... -