A Childhood Cooking lesson: Our Simple Scalable Cake Recipe!
Cakes, Desserts
This is the basic formula for every cake I’ve ever made. So here’s a little lesson from inside my mind, and the way I was taught as a child, to…
Oat Flour Chocolate Banana Cake
I make this less sweet chocolate banana bread all the time just for me, but sometimes I just want more of a cake like feel for making for other people…
Easy Apple Baked Oatmeal
Breakfast ideas, Desserts
This has become a delicious and easy breakfast favourite! I started making these prep ahead baked oatmeal slices for an easy prep ahead gluten and dairy free breakfast when we…
Whole Spelt Shortbread + Strawberries and Cream Shortbread Stack
Desserts
Shortbread is one of the quickest and easiest biscuits/cookies to make! It has no eggs and really just 3 essential ingredients: here those are honey, spelt flour and butter. We…
Honey Nut Granola
Breakfast ideas
This is a staple recipe in our family, I do it slightly differently every time depending on what I have in the house. The latest batch I made was cinnamon,…
Super Clean Chocolate Banana Loaf
Breads, Breakfast ideas, Cakes, Desserts
This one is SO simple. I whip it up when I feel like a nutritious, no added sweetener treat that I can happily down for breakfast. It was my sister’s…
CHOCOLATE CHICKPEA CAKE
Cakes
You might be reading this in the future when we can get out to the shops more easily that we can now but if you’re reading this as I post…
Our Favourite Beef Chili (GF/DF)
Main dishes
It’s a rainy day favourite that I love cos it makes so many servings with one prep session. I soak the beans the day before or a few days before so they’re…
Raw Cookie Dough (nut free)
Bars and cookies, Desserts, Vegan
Need a quick and easy no bake sweet bite?! Read on! I love having a cookie dough bite with great nutritious ingredients to grab when I want a bite of…
Sourdough Discard Chocolate Mug Cakes
Cakes
Recipes that tell us to waste food like “discard half of your sourdough starter” are a big thumbs down. I care about food waste not because it’s a hypothetical idea,…
Quick Chickpea Pizza Crust (GF)
Main dishes, Vegan
So many gluten free items come at a higher price or with a long list of ingredients. When I need to cook gluten free I try to find simple ways…
Easy, flexible, Oat Flour Brownies for 2 (or more!)
Cakes, Desserts
Brownies are really a cake with extra sugar and not too much flour, to give a gooey centre and a crispy crust. You can use so many different ingredients to…
Easy Whole Spelt Naan Style Breads
Traditionally these breads are cooked in a tandoor oven but we’re finish them in an oven after starting them in a frying pan. It’s really quick and easy, and they’re…
Lunch Box Bread Rolls
Breads
Clayton prefers these rolls over a sandwich in his school lunch box, so I make a batch each week, then cool, slice and freeze them and pull one out each…
Quick and easy plant based cinnamon rolls
Breads, Breakfast ideas, Vegan
I have another recipe on the blog for sticky sourdough cinnamon rolls which are filled with dates and nuts and have that wonderful sourdough tang, but sometimes you don’t want…
FORAGING NETTLES + STINGING NETTLE PESTO
Main dishes, Paleo, Vegan
I’d heard that during the second world war stinging nettle recipes were a staple but those were the only stories I knew of about nettle eating before 2020. But during…
Wholewheat Croissants
Breakfast ideas
Croissants are just not as difficult as I thought they would be. And 35p for an organic freshly baked wholewheat croissant is unbeatable so making our own is a great…
Veggie Croque monsieur
Main dishes
This is a twist on a classic French Croque Monsieur which would be made with ham, but this puts any veggies you have lying around leftover in there instead to…
SPROUTED CHICKPEA CHOCOLATE HUMMUS
Desserts
Some of you will love this not hugely sweet deliciousness… some of you will think it’s really weird and should never happen, we’re all #teamchocolatehummus over here so here’s what…
DIY Nut Milk
Breakfast ideas, Vegan
If you’ve never tried making nut milk, you should! We always have a batch of it in a jar in the fridge waiting for coffee, granola, smoothies, baking and even…
One Pot Blackberry Cake
Cakes, Desserts
INGREDIENTS 4oz grass fed organic butter 4oz local honey 2 eggs 3 cups blackberries 6oz whole spelt flour 2 tsp baking powder pinch salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp vanilla…
Chocolate Chip Swirl Banana Bread
Breakfast ideas, Cakes, Desserts
Basically, another brunch = another form of banana bread. I make them all the time and they often involve chocolate. But here’s another one that everyone devoured if you want…
NOTELLA!
Cos who doesn’t need to dig a spoon in to a jar of real food chocolate spread? Yeah, exactly. Here you go. The nuts are interchangeable, you can use any…
Let’s Talk Money + Instagram
Whenever I talk on instagram about working from home, or I post something from a nap time work session, people ask me what job I have that let’s me do…
Creamy Balsamic Black Beans
Main dishes, Vegan
I buy all our beans in bulk and soak them, sprout them, and then cook them. If you’re going to eat beans it’s a little bit of work but tends…
Breakfast for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner! (Grain free, gluten free, dairy free option)
Breakfast ideas
This is one of three meals I put together to help people create budget friendly meals! Each one in the series costs less than $3 per serving, and the recipe…
PB+J Chocolate Chip Cookie Skillet!
Bars and cookies, Desserts
This is just everything happy in a delicious cookie skillet! We threw it together with what we had one night, and we’ve made it 45927 times since! I use the…
Our Spelt Sourdough Recipe
Breads
When my housemate first brought home a starter I used a few different recipes and made a loaf every day for 2 weeks. I don’t think there is a one…
Chocolate Protein Pancakes: My Breastfeeding Go To!
Breakfast ideas
**QUICK RECIPE POST FROM MY INSTAGRAM CAPTION** The protein pancakes I started basically every day with after having Roey, with Clayton it was a protein waffle with Roey is was…
