Cannellini Bean Dip

Just a simple can of beans. This recipe is also known as White Bean Dip. However, I prefer to use a more literal name for this recipe. This Cannellini Bean Dip recipe uses a tin of cannellini beans as the star of this recipe. You honestly can’t get easier than this! Plus it’s creamy, delicious…

Healthy Seed Crackers

So easy, so healthy! If you had told me a year or two ago that I’d be making my own healthy seed crackers, I wouldn’t believe you! We all make cakes, biscuits, pizza dough and even pasta from scratch. But we buy crackers, not make them. Why is this? I stumbled upon this recipe a…

Old Fashioned Raspberry Jam

Oh yes, cheap raspberries! We do love to visit Sydney Markets to get fresh produce, especially during berry season. Buying berries there means much cheaper prices than you’d see in shops. I’ve bought loads of strawberries and blueberries at cheap prices to make homemade berry jam. What I’ve never seen there are raspberries for sale….

Homemade Berry Jam

If you’ve never made your own jam, give it a go! I guarantee it’s not hard and yet a wonderful way to use up excess fruit you have available. This combination is so delicious. The pureed strawberries add a wonderful base to the whole blueberries included.

Boiled Milk Frosting

I don’t make traditional buttercream icing anymore if I can help it. Instead I make this frosting as the consistency is light and the flavour indescribably delicious. What I love about this the most is that this frosting isn’t sickly sweet like buttercream.

Buttermilk

There are times you just don’t have the ingredient you need at home. It’s frustrating. Buttermilk for me is one of those ingredients. I don’t readily stock it in my fridge, but I have the odd recipe that calls for it. That’s why making your own is handy with this substitute recipe.