MY RECIPE BOX: Homemade apple slice with warm custard s... 23 June 2014 in Baking, FOOD, My recipes

I’m really not a fan (I don’t like fruit in my dessert, because really, what’s the point??), but Chris loves a warm Apple Pie. And, I figure, if I’m gonna bake a dessert, might as well make something vaguely healthy for the kids, right?...

MY RECIPE BOX: red velvet cake 28 May 2014 in Baking, FOOD, My recipes

I had all the ingredients (or rather, I had red food colouring) to make a Red Velvet Cake for months, but never got round to doing it.. thinking it’d be fiddly and difficult and I’d need heaps of time to do it. Turns out, it was...

MY RECIPE BOX: truffle pasta with truffles 26 May 2014 in FOOD, My recipes

Chris received this fabulous gift box for his birthday, which was two months ago. It was from our lovely friends that own a kickass Italian restaurant called Casa Tartufo, which is all about truffles, truffles and more truffles! And so it was pretty apt...

MY RECIPE BOX: vodka pasta 24 May 2014 in FOOD, My recipes

No, we are not an alcoholic family. But, we all gobbled up this Vodka pasta I made! Kids included 😛 It’s essentially a basic tomato-cream sauce, but then doused with a healthy dose of vodka. I heard that this gives pasta sauce a great...

MY RECIPE BOX: Homemade cinnamon donut cupcakes 21 May 2014 in Baking, FOOD, My recipes

“Want one?”, says Carter. The kids destroyed my batch of Cinnamon donut cupakes that I baked the other day! I snitched the recipe here. Pretty much used the exact recipe, but lowered the sugar because I don’t like highly sugared desserts. It was super...