This recipe came about because of the somewhat summertime struggle of having a fruit bowl full of stone fruit, which are as hard as rocks one day and wrinkly ripe and soft the next. Heck, they would even put the skin on your great grandmother's hands to shame?!     So what do you do? Well you whack them in the oven with a few other simple ingredients to create dessert in a flash. Baked stone fruit for the win! Yep, the compost bin is saved from having to gobble up decaying fruit bowl victims, and you are feeling chuffed... [ READ MORE ]

I've already consumed my fair share of blueberries and the season has only just started. Call me Violet Beauregarde they say - and to whom I am no doubt soon to resemble!* Yes, I even managed to accidentally consume one of the punnets of blueberries reserved for our recipe below (oops!). Thank goodness for the frozen ones I had stashed in the freezer.     These sweet, little, balls of deliciousness are one of few reasons I look forward to Summer (I am NOT a hot weather person - yep,  token weirdo Aussie over here), and despite the fact that... [ READ MORE ]