Recipes – food

I decided that my birthday this year was the perfect excuse to make a cheesecake with my favourite flavours.

I wanted it to be something I hadn’t made before and one that was more of a celebration cake and maybe just a little bit fancier than other cheesecakes I’d made. A week earlier Taline Gabrielian (of Hippie Lane fame) had posted a gorgeous swirly chocolatey caramelly looking cake to celebrate her birthday; so I jumped on to the Hippie Lane app as there is a beautiful Celebration Cakes section. I’m not a mocha flavour person but something about...

We’ve had Cronuts - croissant-donut and we’ve had Cruffins -a croissant-muffin hybrid.

PLEASE LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO THE PRONUT

Well, they’re donuts with protein so I am calling them Pronuts! Why not?!

I have been making raw donuts for a while now and absolutely love them. All sorts of flavours have appeared on my Instagram page, and more will come no doubt. These Pronuts came about when I won a fantastic giveaway on Instagram including Jimmy Blacks Black Bean Powder – a protein rich powder I have actually been using for over a year...

THIS RECIPE WAS INSPIRED BY ONE INGREDIENT....

Natural Hickory Smoke. I bought it at The Essential Ingredient at Prahran Market in Melbourne. I have always loved a good smoky flavour and have previously seen the likes of liquid smoke and other smoky flavours. I loved that this was a natural smoke flavour from wood. I often buy new ingredients intrigued by the product itself but with no idea what I'm going to make. The ingredient sits in the cupboard for maybe weeks, before I...

Raw cheesecake was the first raw dessert I came across.

I was in Combi in Elwood ordering some juices and I saw these "raw" desserts in the cabinet. It was the first time in a long time I had been so confused by food. I had no idea what it was! I was already completely gluten free at this stage, I was also eating a paleo influenced diet without actually reading any paleo cookbooks otherwise I would have seen some of these raw desserts.

I was intrigued! I took photos, raced home and got...

There are so many different and wonderful smoothie recipes out there.

And sometimes if you (meaning me!) make a smoothie by just throwing it all in together it’s hit and miss whether the combination works.

This is my go to smoothie.

As long as I use all the ingredients, it generally doesn’t matter the quantities and it never fails. The only time this has failed was when I forgot the bananas. Ok, that has actually happened a couple of times. And a couple of other times I have poured the smoothie into the...