Howdy! I spent my Easter holiday devouring:
a. lots of chocolate and the best hot cross buns in the world (from the Arrowtown bakery), and
b. some fantastic reading material (those of you who are on FB will have already spotted the book chosen for me by a six-year-old):
Since then, I’ve been feeling very inspired. I’ve been working on lots of new recipes, some of which are about to take centre stage in the next few workshops and demos. This weekend’s Super Snacks workshop, for example, now has some brand new treats, including these fantastic macadamia, coconut and passionfruit energy bites.
The Super Snacks workshop has been pretty popular for a while, and it’s the one and only time we’re running it this year (unless someone requests it as a private workshop) – so if you need some new ideas for delicious healthy food to fill those gaps between meals, then check it out! We just have a handful of spaces left. We’ll be making a whole range of things – some great smoothies, seed crackers, a plant-based dip, and as many other mouthfuls of plant-based fabulousness as we can fit into two-and-a-half hours.
One of the new recipes was inspired by a recipe in my new favourite recipe book, by Emma Galloway of My Darling Lemon Thyme. This book rocks for lots of reasons. It’s great to support a Kiwi gal, even if she has jumped the ditch! There’s a real focus on family-friendly foods (and there’s a cute story on her blog about one of her children mis-quoting “my darling Clementine”, hence the name of the blog). Her photography is awesome, as is the food – it’s right up my alley and I want to make everything in the book. Last but not least, I emailed her with a question and she wrote back with such a lovely gracious response. Yay for friendly down-to-earth food bloggers!
Anyone else have any favourite new books? All recommendations gratefully accepted (except I’m already right up to date on Star Wars).
I’ve just bought the MDLT cookbook too, and am loving it. I am dead jealous of the starwars book though. I’m having fun re-discovering my old cookbooks at the moment- Simple café food and Alison Holst’s Dollars and Sense cookbook the two on my bedside table right now.
Hey there Miss Smith at Home!
Lovely to hear from you – I believe that’s the first “real” comment (as opposed to 50 000 spam comments – do you get those too?) I’ve had on here in months so I’m super-happy!
Julie Le Clerc’s Simple Cafe Food – ba ha ha I was looking at that while I ate my lunch!Great minds think alike, if that’s the same one you’re talking about. Alison Holst’s autobiography is definitely worth a read, to see where all those”dollars and sense” ideas came from. Ciao!
The macadamia, coconut and passionfruit energy bites look AMAZING! Look forward to tasting them soon. 🙂
Thanks so much, they really are. And you just might get what you wish for, I’ve tested the recipe more than once so there are plenty of them sitting around!