Food & Recipes – The Red Wren

White Chocolate and Cranberry Truffles

December 19, 2016

Each year we make the relatives we see over Christmas a bag of handmade treats. There’s usually a jam, a baked good, and a decoration for the tree. Last year we baked cinnamon shortbread, ...

Food & Recipes

Ricotta and Silverbeet Rolls

July 29, 2015

In an effort to both cook and blog more, I will be periodically be sharing some of our favourite recipes on the blog. I intend to go back and add all my recipes to the plug in I’m using for ...

Food & Recipes, Tutorial

Blog Everyday in May – Day 5

May 5, 2015

Day 5 Write a ‘How to’ post teaching everyone … well, how to do something! Cooking, crafting, or anything else that takes your fancy. Realising today’s prompt is about writing a ‘how ...

Food & Recipes

Egg Tarts

October 19, 2013

Remember when this was a sort of all things home related blog? Which included food and recipes. Doing Project Life and making the time to blog about it, appears to have rejuvenated my enthusiasm ...

Food & Recipes

Chicken, Leek, and Potato Pie

August 19, 2013

Last week I succeeded in doing something I hadn't done before… I made a pie! A pie with pastry base and lid, not just a sheet of pre made puff pastry plonked on top of what's ...

Food & Recipes

Is purple the new cream?

October 21, 2012

Today was rather busy. It involved interesting discoveries like these purple potatoes… I purchased them thinking they would be cream once you peeled them, but nope, purple. A quick google ...

Food & Recipes

Stop pinning – blueberry lemon loaf

October 17, 2012

This post really belongs on my other blog, but I am so desperate for content today that I’ve decided it can fit in here. Last week I posted my latest ‘Stop Pinning, Start Doing’ list. On it was ...

Food & Recipes, Life and Outings

A lovely day

October 13, 2012

Happy Birthday to me :) Every five years my birthday falls on Shedfest. The last time this happened was my 30th so you do the maths! This year marked the 7th time I’ve been along to ...

Food & Recipes

Chicken and Black Bean Burritos

August 13, 2012

I wanted to make burritos with black beans in them. I had a delicious one a few years back that has stuck in my mind so armed with this memory I went in search of some burrito recipes. I didn’t ...