Fancy Fruit Platter
With the festivities of the Christmas season now in full swing, I wanted to share with you one of my favourite additions to the family breakfast table. For when the sun is shining, and day ahead is filled with family…
Nutty Date & Chocolate Slice
My two eldest girls can be quite challenging when it comes to food. Miss C will happily eat avocado, mangoes and prawn dumplings by the bucket load, but is generally not all that food focused at meal times (preferring instead…
Cocktail Hour: Iced Peach Bellini
Yes, friends, cocktail season continues in the MCP household, and I am having a lot of fun creating some new drinks to add to our entertaining repertoire. This particular cocktail was inspired by the beautiful peaches I came across during…
My favourite Lemon and Coconut Slice
When asked to “bring a plate”, I often lean towards creating a sweet treat. Rocky road is usually my “go to” sweet, and is generally well received, but on other occasions I like to bring a plate of lemon slice. …
Peach and Lemon cake
Do you have something that you like the idea of, more than you actually like? For me, one such thing is cake. Sure I love creating and baking cakes, but the eating part – yeah not so much. I tend…
Cocktail Hour: Pimm’s Jug
In what I suspect will be a regular feature this Summer, I couldn’t help but put a cocktail on the menu when we had friends around for a BBQ recently. And while I was tempted to serve another Santorini Sunrise,…
Poached chicken and orange salad
I have, over the years, accumulated a few kitchen ‘gadgets’ that I would now not be without. My food processor and blender get a decent workout on a weekly (if not, daily, basis) and I am in love with my…
Lemon Meringue Tartlets
I am by no means a green thumb. Gardening does not come naturally to me, and with the frosty Canberra winters, and hot dry summers, well needless to say – we have lost our fair share of plants over the…
Eggplant Tapenade Tuna Nicoise Salad
Following on from my recent “Eat the Freezer” post, I should probably pull together an “Eat the Pantry” series. For similar to my freezer, my pantry is starting to fill up with lots of bits and pieces. Half packets of…
Sweet Potato and Quinoa Burgers
With the warmer weather having (finally) arrived, I expect you will see more and more BBQ-cooked meals on the menu at our place. For why mess up a pan and heat up the kitchen, when you can cook dinner on…