Balanced Breakfast

Ratatouille: Every Which Way

Ratatouille: Every Which Way

Ratatouille.  It can be fancy and minimalist.  It can evoke the warm and fuzzy feelings of home.  It can bring to mind the image of a cute French rat.  It can be transformed into epic bestovers.

Almonds: 2 for the Price of 1

Almonds: 2 for the Price of 1

The world has become obsessed with Almond Milk.  Not going to lie, I do like it.  It’s a different taste to regular milk, lighter.  I mean it’s effectively flavoured water.  Which I don’t normally like.  Not a cucumber in my drink kind of girl.  But almonds?  And honey.  And vanilla… yes please.

Stale Pain au Chocolat + Overripe Nectarine Compote

Stale Pain au Chocolat + Overripe Nectarine Compote

Who knew some of the best French toast I would ever make would come out of a 5 day old Pain au Chocolat.

Bircher Müesli

Bircher Müesli

After a couple weeks of avid exploration, the only way I know how, through food, I have finally had a moment to settle into my new home.  And so it only felt right to christen the new kitchen with a family tradition; Bircher Müesli.

Powerhouse Peanut Butter Smoothie

Powerhouse Peanut Butter Smoothie

I don't know how, or when, or why for that matter, I came to be so obsessed with Peanut Butter.  But I am.  And as accepting the fact is the first step to recovery, I have decided to indulge in this obsession whenever, however possible, allowing it to healthily run its course (yes healthy and obsession were just used in the same sentence).

Compost Cake

Compost Cake

Sounds unpleasant doesn’t it.  Do you trust me?

Breakfast PB+J IceCream Sandwiches

Breakfast PB+J IceCream Sandwiches

Today is July 4th.  There are many things going through my mind: I miss America (more than I expected to).  I miss San Francisco.  I miss my friends.  Craving some smoked bbq ribs right about now.  With whom can I celebrate here.  How do I celebrate this year.  Where did this recent obsession with Peanut Butter + Jelly come from.  It's 900 degrees.  I want an Ice Cream Sandwich.  PEANUT BUTTER + JELLY ICE CREAM SANDWICH.  Breakfast style. 

Apricot + Rosemary Galettes

Apricot + Rosemary Galettes

Sometimes it’s the stunning photography, the innovative styling, sometimes the who, the why, the where.  And sometimes, it’s just about discovering the most unusual Ratatouille-palette-firework-inducing flavour combinations that make the culinary world so enticing.  Which just so happened to be the case this morning, thanks to Master Chef Australia’s current contestant Ashleigh Bareham (and if you haven’t heard of Master Chef Australia, then that’s another conversation we need to have), who decided to oven roast Apricots with Rosemary.  Who’d have thought.  Genius.  Yes, that herb you rub meats with, roast vegetables in, and infuse gravies with.  That one.  On our Galettes.  Mini/individual Apricot Rosemary and Honey Galettes, to be precise.