Recipes the kids can cook Macaroni cheese Baked bean jaffles Cheese twists Chicken salsa wraps Egg and bacon muffins Tomato, olive and rocket pasta Chicken pitta pockets White chocolate oat biscuits Rocky road slice Choc-chip blueberry muffins Breakfast in bed Time for tea Brunch, lunch or simple supper Scrumptious salads Family feasts Just desserts Still […]

Scrumptious salads Prosciutto, pear and blue cheese salad Light Caesar salad Roasted tomato salad Spicy eggplant salad Creamy potato salad Rocket, avocado and macadamia salad Mediterranean chicken salad Tomato, olive and herb salad Warm tuna salad with lemon dill dressing Salad nicoise Breakfast in bed Time for tea Brunch, lunch or simple supper Recipes the […]

Family feasts Veal cordon bleu Slow-roasted lamb with lemon and potatoes Garlic mustard rack of lamb Lamb with garlic aioli and potato fondant Rosemary and garlic lamb Pork Pork with pear chutney and pumpkin mash Oven-baked risotto with Italian sausages Rack of pork with apple sauce Chicken Chicken with mustard and rosemary Roast chicken with […]

Just desserts Mum’s caramel pavlova Easy passionfruit coconut tart Old-fashioned rustic apple pie Mixed berry & museli cheesecake Lusciously light chocolate mousse Strawberries with lemon sorbet Caramel self-saucing pudding Black forest cake Rhubarb and blackberry crumble Moist lemon cake Coffee fudge self-saucing pudding French fruit flan Dark chocolate truffles Breakfast in bed Time for tea […]

Instead of chocolates or flowers for your Mum this Mother’s Day, make your gift a gift for breast cancer research… Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer-related death in women in Australia. Around one in 10 women will be diagnosed with this disease. Although it can affect all adult women, it is very […]

Olivia Newton-John is responsible for some of the most embarrassing photos in my family album. Well, that’s what I like to think, anyway… You see, there aren’t too many girls who look good in lycra leggings – and I am not one of them. But could you stop me from wearing them as a youngster […]

Your Heart: What is it Hungry for? May 3rd marks the beginning of National Heart Week – a good time to think about looking after our hearts so that we can enjoy a happier, healthier life. Most of us know the things to avoid for a healthy heart, like saturated fat and smoking. But what […]

It’s said that behind every great man there’s a great woman. As Wendy Squires and Sue Williams discover, when it comes to their beloved mums, some of Australia’s most successful male entertainers are only too happy to agree. Rove is known as the nice guy of Australian TV and hearing him talk about his mum, […]

The zesty scent of lemon essential oil is not only refreshing; it’s a blues-buster as well. A study published in Neuroimmunomodulation shows that depressed patients who inhaled lemon oil each morning needed fewer antidepressant drugs than those who did not; other research suggests that lemon oil improves mood, concentration, and accuracy. It is thought that […]

Two antioxidant flavonoids that you’ve probably never heard of – kaempferol and luteolin – may hold the key to fighting ovarian cancer, often called ‘the silent killer’ because it has few symptoms and is usually only diagnosed at an advanced stage. A study of 66,940 women at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA, published […]