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Mushroom Pie Recipe

Mushrooms are up there on my faves list, alongside avocados and cheese.  All three can usually be added to anything to instantly improve it. Aside from cake. Anyway, this recipe is amazing, I wish I could take credit for it (not that clever!) but I plan on making these ALL the time, the addition of lemon zest is genius I …

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Midwinter Mexican – Sizzling Shrimp Fajitas Recipe

Faa-heaters. Fajitas. Yay! Now that you can pronounce fajitas, let’s figure out exactly what we’re talking about before we dive in and get cooking. My first fajita experience was in a popular Tex-Mex chain restaurant in the US.  Piles of sizzling sliced meats, sliced, sauteed capsicums and onions served to the table in a HOT cast iron skillet with warm …

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Pumpkin Soup and the Story it Tells

Thanks for making this post possible Naked Locals, your soups are incredible!  Check out their full range of 13 flavours here. I spent a lot of time with both of my grandmothers when I was young and for this, I feel so grateful.  There were week-long school holiday sleep-overs, quick overnights and just simply days when pick-up time came all too …

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Recipe: Thai Chicken Meatballs in Coconut Curry

There’s something about adding a little bit of heat to winter meals that works so well.  Thai dishes can be exactly what you need to warm the family’s bellies on these dreary, dark nights.In saying that, I’ve always been a little intimidated by Thai, I think that the inherent layering of aromatic flavours has always seemed a bit too complicated for …

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How to: Meal Planning for the Modern Family

Dave and I love cooking.  We are constantly looking for meal inspo, experimenting with different techniques or twists on old faves and frequently testing and re-testing our own recipes to share with you guys here or on FB or IG.  But let’s be clear, this ‘fun in the kitchen’ does NOT happen Mon-Fri at 5pm.  At that time of day, …

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Crock-Pot Macaroni Cheese Recipe With Dukkah Chicken

Is Macaroni Cheese the unofficial king of comfort food? The champion of family-friendly, fill-you-up deliciousness?   Absolutely. There are few challengers who would take on the magical combination of cheese and pasta, plus, throw in some bacon and there’s just no contest. Made in the traditional way, Macaroni Cheese can be a multi-pot explosion of dishwashing.  One pot to make …

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Crock-Pot Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe

Ooohhhh yaassss, come at me chicken wraps!   PF Chang’s is a popular restaurant chain in California that serves a lettuce wrap dish and people go gaga over them.  I ate there once and wasn’t flipping out over them to the point that I felt I would never be able to recreate them at home.  I mean, they were totally …

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Creamy Avocado Basil Zoodles Recipe

Oh.  My.  Lord. Never made zoodles before, preeeety sure I’ve never created OR made a whole foods recipe before either. First time for everything – including using New Hemisphere Hemp Seed Oil –  and let me tell you, I will be making this again, and again and again.  The nutty taste of the Hemp Seed Oil is the perfect complement to …

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The Best One Pan Macaroni Cheese Recipe

Forget everything you thought you knew about Macaroni Cheese.  This is the easiest, quickest, most delicious Macaroni recipe you will ever make.  One pan.  One step.  Forget about boiling pasta, making a sauce, draining the pasta, combining the ingredients, baking……………this is too easy! Dave and I whipped this up in 20 minutes, seriously. Press play to watch the 1 min …

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Thai Chicken Pies – Dinner is served!

I came to the realisation this week that, despite being a born-and-raised Kiwi mummy, there was something that was missing from my life.  Something so quintessentially ‘New Zealand’ that I’m pretty embarrassed to have been overlooking it for so long. I couldn’t remember the last time I had eaten a pie. Truth. There are few things we hold dear as …