Category: Breakfast
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Chocolate-Date Chia Pudding
This is such a luscious pudding – both low sugar and filled with antioxidants and fibre. Using good quality cocoa and soft medjool dates is the key to creating a smooth consistency. My preference is coconut milk (but you can swap for other milks). This is a low sugar dessert or breakfast that comes together […]
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Dippy eggs at The Paddock Bakery
Woe betide me for having “discovered” dippy eggs only weeks ago. The breakfast pictured here is pretty much the epitome of perfection: dippy eggs, labneh with fennel, minced parsley and crispy bacon bit. With sourdough toast “soldiers” on the side. Available at The Paddock Bakery here on the Gold Coast. It’s your choice whether you […]
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Peach Apple Turnovers
Turnovers remind me of childhood, the flaky, sweet, hand-held nature of them. I have been making them early mornings lately while everyone is still asleep – if I’m on the ball the kids will get to eat them with their morning tea. They are great for lunches, picnics and after-school snacks. Blueberry works really well […]
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Mexican chocolate chia pud’in
This pudding is the ultimate brain food. As a breakfast or meal replacement, this cinnamon spiced, coconutty pudding is full of creamy flavours. Add cacao nibs, granola or desiccated coconut as topping. In a blender this pudding takes minutes to put together or whisk by hand. Ingredients: 2 tablespoons cocoa powder (unsweetened) 1/4 cup chia […]
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Blueberry Almond-Avo Smoothie bowl
If there’s one thing I have learned from living on the Coral Sea, it’s that one should always serve a smoothie in a bowl. A smoothie bowl says “Take me seriously, dress me up, I can handle interpretation,” where a smoothie in a glass says, “Take me as I am.” Either way, smoothies are a […]
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Buttermilk Cornmeal Pancakes
When we immigrated to Australia, Kevin and I assumed there would be no maple syrup available widely in Sydney. The weekend before we left Vancouver, we hit a farmers market and purchased several litres of maple syrup. We blew about 1/8 of our luggage weight limit with it! Turned out that pure maple syrup was […]
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Cacao Apricot Granola
In my years of cooking, I have always avoided making granola. Sure, I’ve grabbed some interesting boutique granola at the health food store that caught my eye, and always enjoyed it as a breakfast. Or on an occasion where it featured on the menu of the B&B I was staying at, I would gladly order […]
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