Chicken carbonara is definitely one of my favorite pasta recipes. I don't eat it nearly as much as spag bol as it's very rich, but I do love it as much. It's one of them recipes that you can play with quite a bit too. You can do it without the chicken, or replace the chicken with small meatballs or sausages. Mushrooms or vegetables like peas and broccoli could also be used. … [Read more...]
Banana Cake Recipe
My two favorite cakes are probably banana cake and carrot cake, which are big calls as I'm a great lover of all things chocolate! They have to be moist though. I have only made this banana cake recipe a couple of times, so I would like to think that it will improve as I make it a few more times. … [Read more...]
Mediterranean Salad Recipe
To be honest I wasn't much of a salad fan until I started making this one. For me, it's not so important what ingredients you put into the salad, it's how well you chop it up! I know, it sounds strange, but I like my salads chopped up finely. That way I can add healthy things that I don't necessarily like so much, like raw carrots. I could never eat a salad with big slices of … [Read more...]
Cheese and Bacon Pie Recipe
Being Australian, I have probably eaten a million meat pies in my life time, and I have the waistline to prove it! A million might be a slight exaggeration, but there's rarely a week that passes when I don't have a meat pie. Just down the road from where I live is a drive through pie shop where I can easily grab a pie and a large cappuccino to go. Living alone means if I don't … [Read more...]
Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe
My first recipe, Spaghetti Bolognese is an experiment as I'm still figuring out how all the buttons and levers work on Wordpress. The photos were taken with my old point and click camera, so I'm hoping the new version I post of this recipe later will have prettier pictures. Update: I added a new Spaghetti Bolognese post here. … [Read more...]