Like many mums I am very time poor during the week, so a lot of the time dinners can be very basic & thrown together in 15 minutes (if that!). Sometimes it’s oven baked nuggets & chips 😛 Sometimes it’s leftovers in another form. I try not to cook different meals for each person but sometimes it comes down to what’s easiest to feed them (feeding a toddler mash potato without an absolute mess is something I have not quite mastered yet :P). With this throw together pasta bake dinner, it always amazes me that despite hating broccoli, my kids love it. No idea how that happened, but if it…
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Chicken & Corn Cupcakes with Sriracha Frosting
It all started with a mince & cheese styled birthday cake. It didn’t have mince or cheese in it, wasn’t a pie & was definitely a cake 🙂 I’ve always enjoyed making & styling cakes, and for as long as we’ve been married I’ve almost always done a different cake for DH. From pac-man to pies, it’s always been a sweet treat. This year, however, DH issued me a challenge without actually thinking he had 😛 He happened to mention, at some point before his birthday, that he’d never seen anyone do savoury cupcakes with icing/frosting. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED said my brain 😛 Timing, however, wasn’t on his side. With his…
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My First BlackBox!
OMG! OMG! OmG! Got our my first BlackBox 🙂 So many kewl new things to try (and a few old things in a new form). Took us a couple of days to get through most of it, and that’s without trying lol Thanks #BlackBoxNZ ! (sampleco.co.nz) Chop!Chop! Chicken (Lite Mayo) I remember when this first came out. It was a case of should I/shouldn’t I. Fish in a can – Fine… Chicken? Bit weird? Didn’t want to buy a whole can to chuck it in the bin; not that it’s too expensive, I just hate throwing out good food; so was happy to see this in my BlackBox. Did…
