Well, hello there! I hope you've had a great start to the new year and that you had a fantastic festive season. It's summer here in Australia and we've just sweltered through a week-long heatwave. Thank goodness for air-conditioning. It's not a luxury over here. It's a health necessity. Kids have now returned to school after about 7 weeks of summer holidays. The schedule of activities is … [Read more...]
Gluten-free Recipe: Hedgehog Slice
Well, it's almost Easter and school holidays and it's that time of term when we're all utterly exhausted. I get pretty busy in the lead-up to Easter because I have a musical directorship which demands quite a lot of Easter music. That's fine by me, because I love Easter music almost as much as I love Christmas music. Anyway, while other food bloggers have been creating their own Easter recipes, … [Read more...]
Gluten-free Recipe: Ribbon Salad
Well, we're into the crazy part of the school year. This past week we've had the ballet concert, school concert and various final school assessments. Coming up is another school concert and an end-of-year ceremony. It's nuts. And school holidays are less than two weeks away. Yikes! I'm still recovering from the last holidays so have no plans in place for the summer. But somehow it will work out, I … [Read more...]
Gluten-free Recipe: Cornflake Cookies
I went to my school reunion on Saturday night. It was the first reunion that my year level has had in the 25 years since we finished year 12. (That's right, I'm not a day over 35. Or maybe just a few days.) I had quite a few reservations about going. I went to a country high school and it was socially a tricky time for me, so wasn't really sure I'd be happy to be there, but I'm so glad I … [Read more...]
Top Tips for Packing a Gluten-free Lunchbox
Y'know how we have the Christmas rush, followed by New Year's celebrations and then the Back-to-School frenzy happens straight after? It's irritating, isn't it? You barely get a breather between school ending and the Christmas season and then all of a sudden you're meant to be thinking about new pencil cases and trying to work out how to get out of covering your children's school books. Oh, and … [Read more...]