Peanut Butter Cookies

I am rather busy at the moment having started a new job and sorting out all sorts of things that have been put on hold while I was in Africa. I therefore didn’t have a whole long morning to have a leisurely brunch this weekend. Instead I had to have a brunch treat that I […]

Passionfruit & Coconut Mini Cakes

  I know that somewhere on this blog I said that I like to follow the seasons with my choices of food and that summery strawberries don’t work for me in winter. That is still the case but there are some exotic fruits I make an exception for, the passion fruit for example. After all, […]

Botswana’s Breakfast Porridge

Excuse the long silence but I have been away for a few weeks… I visited Botswana, in southern Africa, to volunteer at an orphan nursery and pre-school/day centre in Maun, a small town in the north of the country. I heard about this project through some Australian friends of mine who built this school and […]

Warming and Healthy Quinoa

Happy New Year! I thought it would be good to start the new year with something healthy. Don’t worry it wont last long, I like my sugary treats too much to become a full time health fanatic. However, some so called super foods have successfully found their way in to my kitchen and gluten free […]

Christmas Cranberry & Almond Cakes

Frohe Weihnachten! I am writing this from Germany where I am spending Christmas with my family. Here, Christmas has already started as today is Christmas Eve and that is the day where we go to church, have a special Christmas dinner and get to open the presents with which the children get to play until […]