I’m a little bit meh when it comes to making sweet treats ‘healthy’. Part of me thinks, “just have the darn sweet and move on” and part of me thinks, “how clever to pack some goodness into a biscuit.” Mostly I think nutrition has no business discussing homemade treats. So I’m defying myself every time I make…
Chocolate and Rosemary Biscuits
Just up the road there is a front hedge grown from rosemary bushes. It smells just as delicious as you’d imagine, especially when our neighbour is trimming the hedge back. The sharp scent of rosemary gushes up and down the street, fragrancing our day Ah, divine! We have a small rosemary plant in a far-too-shady part of…
Quick mix cookies
Sometimes you don’t want to muck around making the world’s best chocolate chip cookies. Because biscuits like that involve creaming the sugar and butter for a rather long time. Sometimes you just want a quick mix biscuit recipe that you can whip up in a storm. This is that recipe. It will take you 5…
Coconut macaroons to make you swoon
At the risk of sounding like I’m writing an 1800’s manual for housewives, I just quickly want to talk about emergency afternoon tea provisions. Now, I’m fully aware that running out of biscuits to serve with a pot of tea is not exactly an emergency emergency. But it’s nice to have a little something to offer our…
Smiley-face gingerbread biscuits
I found this recipe in the back of a 1974 children’s book called The Witch in the Cherry Tree by Margaret Mahy. I’ll obviously give anything a go. I do love a children’s book with a recipe, though. Baking the treat together enhances the story and it’s fun to stumble across a recipe and think,…
Apple slice cookies
Do you struggle with providing healthy snacks for the kidlets? It’s one area where I’m often baffled by the whole food thing. Unless you manage to bake from scratch weekly, it’s hard to give them snacks that interest them that aren’t pre-packaged ‘healthy’ crap, it really is. Especially when they are ravenous after school. These…
Muesli cookies
Is it wrong that ‘cookie’ has entered my lexicon? It’s just that some ‘biscuits’ are most certainly ‘cookies’. Pretty much anything large and free-form and definitely anything rocking chocolate chips. Biscuits are nice and afternoon tea-ish. Cookies are nice and afternoon milk-ish. These are muesli cookies without hesitation. They are perfect for the lunchbox provided…
Rather jumbled honey jumbles
It’s a wet, wet day today. I know that it’s physically possible to get out and about on a wet day and, indeed, many families have totally made rainy days their thing. They’re off visiting a crowd-free zoo, taking long nature hikes in gumboots and sailing choppy harbour waters with their faces turned up to…
Chocolate chip cookies heaven
My ‘Sydney Food’ (Bill Granger) recipe book falls open to page 11. It’s the home of the ULTIMATE Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe. I’m not sure where you stand on Aussies calling biscuits ‘cookies’ but these babies ain’t no biscuit. They’re lush, chocolatey, melty, chewy cookies. I hope Bill won’t mind me sharing his divine recipe (I noticed that there…