Kiwibird #2

about me

I'm a work from home mum who loves to feed her family good, nutritious and delicious meals. I'm also all about not wasting food so I love to find recipes that use odds and sods out of my fridge, vege box and freezer.

My daughter is 4 and she is the light of my life, always (or almost always) smiling. We are a family that really sticks together, my DH and I live with his parents, or in the same property and we love spending time with them.

We have a spoodle named Cocoa (can you guess my favorite craving) and when MIL is home we have a spaniel named Sid. 2 cats lurk about the property but are not very domesticated.

My favorite cookbook is anything from Nigella Lawson, I have all but her latest and cook regularly from them. I'm also addicted to zaar and find that I'm doing heaps of things from here since inspiration is only a couple of keystrokes away. Add that to a blog reading addiction (mostly food related) and you have the best recipe for ever expanding waistline and ever decreasing worry about same!

More recently I have discovered that I can't tolerate gluten and so have been changing up my recipes to accommodate where its been needed - or using GF pasta and the like with old favorites that don't need any other rejigging.

Favorite Foods:

My favorite foods are pretty much anything, but I really love Thai and Mexican flavours. I'm a complete chocoholic, love to do desserts and drink more tea than any English person!

Probably my favorite dish that I cook is 12hr roast pork which seems to get people out of the woodwork whenever it goes in the oven. We love it with coleslaw and fresh rolls to make great sandwiches from.

I haven't been on zaar long so I'm still getting to know people, but I can't wait to make new friends from all over the world and have some new cooking experiences.

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