Fantastic Courgette chocolate cake recipe.

We had plenty of broccoli left on the plates at our house tonight! This recipe is a great way to use up leftover broccoli. It’s a little bit different from your normal broccoli recipe but [...]

Pears are a luscious fruit that are available for much of the year. Why not pair them up with a great cheese and walnuts to create this Pear, Pecorino and walnut salad. Pears are juicy and sweet, [...]

Walnuts are extremely nutritious and appear to be great for both heart health and reducing your risk of diabetes. In this post we share some ideas on how to use walnuts. Walnuts provide an [...]

Here is another one of our purees from our award winning Munch Seasonal Cookbook for Baby and Family –  banana avocado baby puree! It is super simple to make. I used to eat the left overs [...]

Breakfast is definitely one of my favourite meals and an important meal for everyone. It is always a busy time at breakfast in our house, so its great to have something that everyone likes to [...]

Whoa, its been hot lately. In this kind of weather all most of really want to eat is a salad or something light. And it definitely isn’t the kind of weather you want to get your oven on in. [...]

My  favourite meal of the day has always been breakfast. I recently started making refrigerator oatmeal to add a bit of variety to my breakfast menu. You need to pop it in the fridge the night [...]

Although these days we tend to eat the beetroot itself mostly, this wasn’t always the case. Originally the beetroot leaves were actually the preferred part of the beetroot in some countries. [...]

Philippa Murphy is a mother, the founder and director of BabyCues and a leading postnatal educator, both in New Zealand and Internationally. With twenty years experience in this field, Philippa [...]

Have you tried cauliflower rice or cauliflower couscous? It is a not so new trend to substitute cauliflower for carbohydrates such as for potatoes and rice, but one I have been a tad resistant [...]

Okay mums, so we know you want to eat well but dessert seems like a need not a want some times. Well why not try this raw raspberry chocolate slice. It’s just that little bit more good for [...]

Asparagus means summer for many of us, and a great BBQ or feast isn’t the same without it. They are great cooked marinated and cooked straight on the BBQ, but in this post we share with you [...]

Having an easy standby salad recipes that work with a variety of meals is essential for busy parents. This black bean, corn and tomato salad is easy to prepare and extremely tasty. It is a zingy, [...]

Seeds ain’t just for the birds. Seeds are really good for us, much like nuts, they are packed full of healthy fats and an array of different vitamins and minerals. The Dr Oz show is small [...]

Is there a mother alive who has not repeated the phrase “Eat your greens” on a semi regular basis? There is a time of year for it, when the cold of autumn is creeping through the cracks and [...]

When the weather turns cold the first thing I want to make are soups and stocks. Here is my latest recipe for a kumara and carrot soup.

Baked potatoes are definitely a hot-potato favourite in our house at the moment. So I thought I would share with you a recipe for our worlds best baked potatoes. Potatoes are a great thing to be [...]

Ashlee tells us that she loves this throw-salad - it looks impressive to take out, it’s light for summer, yet offers a real vit-c kick for winter too! The ingredients are really flexible - use [...]

Plenty by Ottolenghi won awards such as the Observer Food Monthly's and the Galaxy book awards for 2011. In this post we share a recipe from his new book, Plenty More a summer salad recipe for [...]

Beetroot is mostly available between November to April, and is abundant and cheap in summer time. Why not try making this beetroot chocolate cake? Beetroot contains fibre, potassium, folate and [...]

In this post I share the recipe for the my dear friend Kirsten’s favourite parsley and walnut pesto. Kirsten runs Hoopla Kids and has in fact recently been convinced her to start her own [...]

This recipe for a peanut butter based stir-fry sauce was submitted by Jane is essentially a simply peanut butter based sauce. It can be used for all types of easy stir fries and it sure to please [...]

If you have been following our posts recently you would have seen our recent post on the Health benefits of spirulina – spirulina smoothie and perhaps even our older post  Smoothies. In this post [...]

Bananas are such a handy, portable snack, packed full of nutrients like potassium, magnesium, vitamin B6, calcium and fibre. If, like me, you’ve got plenty of over ripe bananas in your fruit [...]

Here is a great video clip kindly shared by Annabel on how to make one ingredient banana ice cream. I just cannot help myself when it comes to making things with bananas as they are so easy to [...]

This watermelon and cucumber recipe will appeal to many on hot summery. A great way to up your vegetable intake… Watermelon facts According to Wikipedia, a watermelon contains about 6% [...]

Peas are extremely versatile and can easily be added to risottos, kedgeree, omelettes, pasta, soups, casseroles and green curries. For the kids, I just add them into the pasta/rice at the end of [...]

Well, tomatoes are in season and going cheap. Even when they are not in season the tomato is a go-to ingredient for me year-round. When tomatoes are in season When tomatoes are in season and [...]

  Where would the Pavlova be without the strawberry? In fact, where would the Kiwi Christmas be without the strawberry? Did you know that the strawberry is actually a member of the rose [...]

I recently shared with you my beetroot chocolate cake which used grated fresh grated beetroot. The beetroot risotto below uses cooked and mashed/pureed beetroot. Beetroot are grown all over the [...]

I have always wanted to try making my own nut butter, and this peanut, cashew and brazil nut butter has a great flavour and texture.  You can personalise this recipe by using your own blend of [...]

I think that avocado is one of the yummiest of the healthy things you can eat. This avocado salsa makes and excellent accompaniment to chicken dishes and would go down very well at any BBQ! [...]

My boys love making homemade fresh pasta with dad. My eldest boy likes to tinker in the kitchen. For him it’s all about the process and not really about the result. What he really likes is [...]

The school fair season is quickly approaching for many of us. I have always loved going to school fairs and galas. I love the raffles, the tombola stalls, and, of course the baking. Oh [...]

Last week we posted a recipe for energy balls which include chia seeds as one of the ingredients. I thought it might be a good time to do another seed-post and focus on Chia seeds. Chia seeds [...]

I love a good scone. They are a great afternoon treat, and easy to whip up if friends pop over unexpectedly. We recently shared a great traditional scone recipe when we reviewed: Book review – [...]

The other day I had a stack of bananas that needed to be used up, and a short window of time to do some baking. All I needed was a quick and reliable banana cake recipe. In search of an quick [...]

A good reason to try this instant banana pineapple ice cream is because, apparently, bananas can make you smarter. They can allegedly help with learning by making you more alert – so eat [...]

I mentioned in last week’s blog Freddie’s Top 5 Superfast Snacks that chickpeas are one of Freddie’s favourite foods! Given they are a good natural source of calcium as well as full of protein [...]

I must be sounding tired as this is the second post in a week about nutritional meals that the kids can make themselves. See sushi blog last Sunday: Maybe it is my lazy side coming out. Upside is [...]

Last week we posted on the great health benefits of wonderful walnuts. This week I thought I would post a really easy walnut pasta sauce recipe. I have made this recipe on several occasions, and [...]

This recipe Aubergine parmigiana for Mama is from the award winning Munch – Seasonal cookbook for baby and family.  [shopify embed_type=”product” [...]

In this post we share a recipe for Gruffalo crumble. A great recipe to entice kids to eat some vegetables as this is a savoury crumble recipe. “My favourite food is Gruffalo Crumble” [...]

Apart from the onion, tinned tomatoes and maybe broccoli, the humble carrot is probably the next most likely vegetable to be found and used in my kitchen. That said, I don’t think  I do [...]

This is another recipe from Munch – Seasonal cookbook for baby and family. This recipe isn’t a traditional fruit salad, it is something you can prepare for little tummies that will be [...]

Munch is the home of kitchen solutions, inspiration and ideas. This is where it all began with the Munch – Seasonal cookbook for baby and family. This fabulous cookbook went onto win an [...]

Freddie is currently rather fond of yoghurt with frozen berries. I discovered he preferred them frozen when he ate them on the way back from our freezer under the house and wouldn’t wait for the [...]

As well as being the foot soldier of almost every childhood meal for me, potatoes were always the unsung hero of my childhood Christmas feasts. Freshly dug from my grandfather’s garden [...]

Sesame seeds are delicious in my opinion. I have taken to them with renewed gusto recently and have literally been opening the sesame seed jar and sprinkling them liberally into many different [...]

 Peas have been a favourite in our household since my eldest was very little. He will often have peas, still frozen, as a “starter” while I am preparing the “main” [...]

In this post we share a recipe for a breakfast makeover pineapple paradise smoothie. Fruit smoothie recipes are a great quick and easy way to start the day and there are a few simple tricks to [...]

Freddie's favourite - sweetcorn fritters Freddie's three favourite foods are sweetcorn, banana and yoghurt and I'm pretty sure if I let him that is all he'd eat! In fact "nana" was one of his [...]

I really really like to eat ice cream. Apart from biscuits, ice cream is probably my biggest diet downfall. I like it so much I started to make homemade ice creams. They are hard to beat and you [...]

You say tomato, I say pomodoro… in this post we examine ways to get more tomatoes into your diet and some interesting facts about them. Pomodoro, or tomatoes are a key component of many [...]

Do you like pumpkin? Why not try this pumpkin and pancetta risotto? It is thought that pumpkins originated in South America, but they are now enjoyed throughout the world. The words pumpkin and [...]

I have often in the past been slightly scared of the aubergine as I had no idea how to cook it.  But now I do and it is a great vegetable to add to so many dishes. The aubergine (also called [...]

  A for Asparagus.  Yes still on the ‘A’s.  Although I must say at least the word Asparagus has not been hijacked by a big corporate like Apple. So we have done a series on [...]

‘A’ for avo’s as my nephew would say and spell!  I do wonder about the English language as everyone seems to be shrinking it or bastardising it.  I suppose if you are texting avocados [...]