“You mean you’ve never had Buckeyes?”
These six words (or seven if you’re anal retentive about english) sent us into a bit of a tailspin, there was this delicious peanut butter treat that we’d never had before.
[Recipes to come]
This delicious apple cinnamon concoction is best served warm, with vanilla ice cream. The cake portion of this is a very thin cookie-like base (similar to shortbread?) and it’s pressed flat on a baking sheet, not in a cake pan. It’s similar to what New Zealander’s refer to as a slice. All I know is I will be making it a lot more often, as everyone seemed to really enjoy it!
Chicken fried rice
This is a great way to use up leftover rice and whatever meat you have available. I like it best with bacon, egg and spring onion but it can be adapted any way you like. You can use anything you like to jazz up the chicken or beef or whatever meat you add to it, too – any kind of garlicky, gingery, black beany, soyish type sauce is fine. [...]
Cinnamon rolls, hot from the oven
Recipe from Lightly Toasted at Food.com, who it turn has it from Todd Wilbur’s ‘More Top Secret Recipes’.
Sweet cinnamon rolls which are even better heated slightly and then slathered with fluffy vanilla cream cheese icing. I need no longer worry about our one Saint Cinnamon store going out of business!
Strawberry Creme Mini Muffins - Bite Sized Love
I’ve been craving strawberries for some reason… maybe it’s because my tummy knows it’s really summer in the US and it wants it’s strawberry fix! But I went on a search for some yummy ways to use strawberries, and then went out and bought 4 tubs of them at the fruit market. These were so scrumptious that I made a second batch the next day! They are a sweet little treat, and perfect for sharing with all your friends 
Homemade Dinner Decadence!
I mentioned wanting to make Chicken Pot Pie, and Danielle said she had never had one, she’d only heard of them on South Park!
The best thing that came from making this is Mark doing his South Park imitation (AHH! CHICKEN POT PIE!) and Benny hilariously laughing and saying “funny daddy… again” all evening. Priceless!
Key Lime Pie
From: Desserts and sweets from around the world, by Sue Ashworth. Heinemann Library, 2004.
I borrowed this from the library’s junior cookbook collection, so that Cara and I could try making some desserts. She’s not that fussed with the lime taste of the finished pie, but the raw sweetened condensed milk goes down nicely off the back of a spoon. I’d always read about Key Lime Pie in books – a scene in Kaz Cooke’s ‘Llama parlour’ springs to mind – but I’d never known where the ‘Key’ came in ’til I checked out Wikipedia. So, sadly, this isn’t exactly a Key Lime Pie – we’re using the probably less fabulous NZ Supermarket Lime – but it still has a fabulous, zingy taste.
My one tip? Beat the egg whites as you add the sugar, until you think you’re developing Occupational Overuse Syndrome and your forearm burns and goes numb. The end result is much better!
[...]
Chocolate Caramel Slice, just like mother used to make, except my Mother still hasn’t handed over her treasured recipe for such delights, so in the end I took to the internet and found a few, this is almost right .. the Caramel tastes roughly the same and the biscuit layer is (in my opinion) better, I’ve made some modifications of my own to it …
of course the picture is of one of our first attempts, the later ones have the chocolate smoothened and a slightly thicker biscuit layer … Read on and enjoy ….
Fresh from the Maker
When we were given a doughnut maker as a gift, it sat in storage for a few days while I tried to figure out what to do with it. A bit of searching on the net and some judicious shopping yielded surprisingly tasty snacks. Frighteningly tasty snacks that everyone wanted, but they’re mine … mine, my .. precious. My Donuts!!
[...]
Strawberry and vanilla cupcakes, Cara's 4th birthday
Strawberry and vanilla cupcakes; baked by Barb, iced by Danielle and decorated by Cara. (“I will just eat the ones that fall down, okay?” *cue disappearing child under the table with marshmallows*)
These glossy cupcakes were dipped in warm icing, so easy!
