Making your own staples like yoghurts and cheese is a great way to reduce packaging. Store this yoghurt in reusable storage containers like our Food Pouches. Be sure to use yoghurt that has live enzymes. Also, be sure to sterilise your jars.
This would go well with your homemade stewed fruit compote.
Keep chilled and use within a week. Be sure to reserve 4 tablespoons to use as a starter for your next batch!
In this post we share a great recipe that can be enjoyed by both baby and family, a slow cooked beef and kumara hotpot. This can be made in either the oven or with a slow cooker. It is an all-in-one dish that is gluten-free.
Many of the recipes in the first Munch Cookbook are designed for mums and families and is a fabulous gift for a new mother or a mother with little ones. It has many easy seasonal recipes for the whole family with a portion of the recipe for a baby. It is full of useful information about feeding babies, kids, allergies and more. It is not only useful but fun due to each recipe being named after a popular pre school book. It is useful, beautiful and green.
Chicken nuggets get a lot of bad press and usually for good reason. They are often made from poor quality ingredients and stacked with salt and fat. They are often overly targeted at children – featuring a starring role on the “kids” menu in many restaurants (not just fast food joints). It is fair to say that many of these nuggets are just plain crap food. However, it is possible to make delicious homemade healthy chicken nuggets.
Among children chicken nuggets are often revered. The prospect of having them for dinner is often accompanied with squeals of delight. My kids really do love the idea of them. Given how much kids like nuggets, I think it is great to have a standby recipe for homemade healthy chicken nuggets.
Pumpkin and squash are great sources of vitamin A and contain potassium. Pumpkins are a member of the Cucurbita family which includes squash and cucumbers.
Did you know that the flowers of the pumpkin are actually edible? Did you know that pumpkins are 90 per cent water?
These pumpkin scones are light and fluffy and freeze really well.
Thank you to my friend Peveline for sharing this pumpkin scone recipe with me, which she got from her mother-in-law. Love those kinds of recipes. Do you have a favourite pumpkin recipe? Or what about a favourite scone recipe? We would love to hear from you.
Wow is it getting a bit wintery or what? 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.
Kumara are available all year round, but I love making fragrant warming winter soups with them. Kumara has been grown and eaten in New Zealand since the Maori first arrived. Did you know that the kumara is the 7th most popular vegetable in New Zealand.
