Food

  • No Bake Easy Vanilla Slice

    These Vanilla Slice Biscuits are quick and easy to make. Best of all, the no-bake recipe means that the children can help every step of the way; they especially love layering the biscuits and performing a taste test. Ingredients • 2 pk Arnotts Lattice Biscuits • 2 x 100g pk Vanilla Instant Pudding • 600ml…

  • Apple & Mulberry Crumble

    Ingredients: 1/2 cup self-raising flour 40g unsalted butter 1/4 cup brown sugar 3 tablespoons oats 3 tablespoons shredded coconut 1 tablespoon brown sugar 2-3 cups mulberries 2-3 apples peeled and diced Optional: add in diced nuts of your choice. Method: In a bowl, rub the butter into flour, and mix remaining ingredients apart from mulberries…

  • Ideas for Leftover Mince

    Mince is a fantastic family dinner option. Not only can you create beautiful dinners with it, but you can also create fun, tasty sides or another meal using any leftover mince. Here are some great recipe ideas to utilise leftover mince to get the most out of your family budget. Stuffed Capsicums and/or Zucchini Boats…

  • Jelly Slice

    Jelly Slice is best made the day before you require them, to allow for setting time. Ingredients: -85g Packet Port Wine Jelly -1 1/2 Cups Boiling Water -250g Packet “Nice” Biscuits -125g Butter, melted -2 tsp Powdered Gelatine -1/2 Cup Boiling Water, Extra -395g Can Sweetened Condensed Milk Method: 1. Place jelly crystals in a…

  • Meal Planning

    How many other mums out there write up meal plans for the week? It’s quite a process in our household, and though it works for us…I wonder if I’m making it more complicated than it needs to be! My main reason for meal planning is to avoid food wastage and also to avoid the dragging…

  • Cooking the Perfect Steak

    Now the weather is warming up, it’s time to dust off the barbecue. Cooking on the barbecue is usually my husband’s domain, and my comments on how to cook with it are not always appreciated. It has taken me many, many summers of subtly recommending ideas to achieve the perfect steak. Now the BBQ season…

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