Healthy Homemade Chocolate Paddle Pops

Summer: translated, means: holidays + beach + ice cream, I’m sure you’ll agree. So… what’s your favourite ice cream on a stick? Mine has for a long time been one of the cheapest and simplest you can buy; the chocolate-flavoured Paddle Pop. Compared to the more expensive and indulgent chocolate covered varieties, it just seems…

Chocolate Chip & Coconut Cakes (gluten-free + dairy-free + egg-free}

Call me a soft touch. But when I see a young boy’s face crumple with disappointment because he can’t eat the cakes all the other kids are eating, it calls for an intervention. These mini chocolate chip and coconut cakes are the intervention. They are super-easy, super-quick, and devoid of all those nasties that seem…

Baked Pumpkin Coconut Custard {dairy-free}

Although I was once a dedicated pumpkin-hater, it turns out that this vegetable has become quite the staple here in this house since the boy started on solids a year ago. It was so easy to boil up half a pumpkin, mash it and then fill ice block trays to store in the freezer for…

Curried Beef and Vegetable Soup {Lauk Sayor}

It was terrifying finding myself alone, in a foreign land, surrounded by people, but none of whom I knew. I had just left my hometown, flown seven hours via Kuala Lumpur to Penang, Malaysia to pick up my visa from the Thai consulate there. What no-one knew was that I was due to arrive in…

Eggplant and Sweet Potato Curry

Given the predominance of cake on this site, you would be forgiven for thinking we think we live on the stuff. Truth is, I get more excited about sweet than savoury, but we do eat healthy meals. The reason they often don’t make it to the blog is because by the time I’m making dinner it’s too late and too…

Lime & Coconut Cake {gluten-free + dairy-free}

Sometimes it pays to keep your mouth shut. Make that all the time. But I like honesty; I prefer to be truthful. So I say it like it is. Or rather, I say what I’m thinking. Not always a good plan. We were out for coffee, two other gal pals and I. One, a dietician,…

Malibu Coconut Bread

{Disclaimer}: I use the word ‘Malibu’ loosely; the only rum in this bread is essence, and the only Malibu is on the jacket I’m wearing as I bake. 😉 “We’re all going on a summer holiday…” Ha! If only…! It’s the middle of winter here – cold, grey and miserable, but plans are afoot to get…