I have to thank my son for this recipe. We went to visit him at the end of 2018 and we cooked pizzas on his BBQ for dinner on Saturday night. Sitting outside around the BBQ, eating freshly cooked pizza and drinking South Australian wine – it doesn’t get much better than that! What you Continue Reading
I was just writing a recipe for soup and remembered that Mum used to make Cheese Sauce Scones to go with soup. I’ll call this a recipe from her old book but in actual fact it is one of those recipes that was kept in her head. I managed to write it down in my Continue Reading
Just looking for something to cook for dinner in Mum’s old Recipe Book and found a recipe that brings back bitter sweet memories. It’s a tasty veal recipe that Mum started to cook when I was in my late teens. But the reason why she started cooking this recipe was that my dad became very Continue Reading
In an earlier post I wrote about my love for cooking and how my Mum had influenced this passion. I also shared that I would be posting recipes from her very old cookbook. I will continue to do this but today I started looking through some of her newer books. This recipe is from my Continue Reading
As I was searching in Mum’s Recipe Book for something for dinner tonight I stumbled across a recipe for ‘Mezzetti’. What is Mezzetti I hear you ask? Well I think it might actually be ‘Marzetti’ or ‘Johnny Marzetti’ which is a Midwestern Italian American pasta (I found this out through a Google search!). This makes Continue Reading
I don’t know about you but sometimes my evenings can be busy with people coming and going at different times, making dinner preparation a bit tricky. I have been working from home now for over 13 years and find that the best idea for these busy times it to use my slow cooker. Mine is Continue Reading
This is a recipe that was very popular with my mother’s generation. My mother-in-law also used to make it and always seemed to have one on hand when we popped in for a cuppa. This recipe is from mum’s oldest recipe book. Most of my mother’s recipes are in Imperial measurement and I still cook Continue Reading
I love cooking and have done for as long as I can remember. I really can’t understand people who don’t like to cook but the desire of many to spend less time in the kitchen is what fuels the massive take away and prepared meal industries. And yet there seems to be a bad fast-food Continue Reading
