MY DARLING LEMON THYME

gluten-free chocolate almond cake recipe {Reine de Saba}

Cooking legend Julia Child would have been turning 100 on August 15th this year. For the past 6 weeks bloggers from around the world have been invited to cook recipes in her honour as part of JC100. Each week there’s been a different recipe from Mastering the Art of French Cooking to play with if […]

kids in the kitchen + gluten-free lemon coconut cupcakes recipe {guest post}

Teaching our kids that vegetables are grown in the earth, that cakes come from mixing natural ingredients in a bowl before baking instead of merely buying one ready-made, to me, are some of the greatest and most fundamental things that we can do as parents. The world we live in today is somewhat of a scary place. […]

spiced pumpkin chocolate brownie recipe (gluten + lactose-free)

I came so close to calling this a cake. It’s more cake-like than brownie you see. But the recipe that inspired mine came from none other than Martha Stewart, and she called it a brownie. So who am to argue? That being said though people, go into making this expecting to eat cake. Sure, the pockets […]

gluten-free peach & mulberry cake recipe

It’s been one of those weeks. You know the kind where every moment feels like you’re trying to catch up? On chores, on work, on sleep. Sleep. Mostly sleep. Every parent out there knows the feeling of insomnia caused by tending to sick children. It’s a killer. After a promising start to the school week everything went […]

gluten-free banana cake w/ passionfruit icing

Bananas used to be one of those fruits we always seemed to have laying around, with at least one from every bunch ripening just a tad too much to make for pleasant eating, destined only for baking or freezing. But since moving to Perth where bananas were selling for $19kg last March they quickly became […]

little gluten-free mango cakes recipe

I have to say, I sometimes forget we are even living in Australia. As a mum you just get on with life, doing whatever has to be done to keep the kids fed, happy and healthy. So much so that there’s not really a whole lot of time left in the day to actually just […]

gluten-free kumquat friand recipe

It seems that this year in Perth has been an exceptionally good one for citrus. Everywhere you look trees are laden with branches almost breaking under the weight they are holding. A quick stroll around our neighbourhood reveals all sorts, from the usual NZ backyard staple lemon tree to oranges as big as my two […]