Coconut oil is fast becoming about as much of a “super-oil” as olive oil did when I was a teen. I remember when my mum started buying olive oil for cooking, because it was proclaimed to be the healthiest oil you could possibly cook with. Mum used it for everything: stir-frying, baking, roasting, dressings… Everything. Well,
Growing up, I guess I always took it for granted that Milo was made in New Zealand. I’m not quite sure why; I suppose it was my own ignorance …or clever advertising by Nestlé helped me to form that wrong assumption. Well anyway, that was my understanding well into adulthood, so that when I left home (after
For my first post this Plastic-Free July, I’ve decided I’ll share with you how I make hummus from scratch. This is something I’m doing about once a week these days, as my little boy is OBSESSED with it! He’s not really talking yet, so he just squeals and points to indicate that me spreading the
Before we had children, I was one of those people who had an idea that organic might be better but I actually preferred not to know any hard facts or scary details relating to the difference between organic and non-organic food because the fact is, organic foods cost significantly more than their mainstream alternatives. And
Thanks to my Dutch father, I have been eating sauerkraut for as long as I can remember. Certainly, long before it became fashionable as a probiotic superfood! My dad used to serve it up mixed through mashed potato with a rookworst sausage and gravy on top. Just describing it makes me drool! It was the
My husband tells me he has some colleagues at work who are awaiting this post with interest. After the Christmas/New Year holidays in December and January, it was observed by his colleagues that he had lost a noticeable amount of weight since they had last seen him. He was never really overweight as such; just getting
In preparing for this post I had such fun making this little instructional video with my talented and super-generous friends Holly and Murdoch (of One Man Crew). We decided a mini-instructable was the absolute best way to demonstrate that, unless you need enough to feed a village in one sitting, you really need never buy mayonnaise again! Fresh mayonnaise is so quick and
Growing up, I only ever recall storing our vegetables in the plastic bins at the bottom of the fridge. Now that we don’t use them anymore I have to say that I found them so irritating! Like cutlery drawers, those vege drawers would always fill up with debris that I just never got around to cleaning
Now that summer is well and truly over and autumn is here, it is time for a final harvest of my basil plants. They are already starting to feel the cold nights, and their discomfort shows in the leaves. I had great intentions for my basil plants this summer, but unfortunately things got so busy and