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Tropical banana peach smoothie with papaya served in a clear glass with a straw.

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Hand dipping toasted baguette into hot corn and cream cheese dip in a cast-iron skillet, with fresh corn cobs in the background.

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A stack of crispy homemade cornflake cookies with a glass of milk in the background, perfect for an easy nostalgic treat.

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Multiple ripe bananas arranged on a light blue surface

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Hi my food-loving friends!

This is the place to find approachable, (mostly) from-scratch recipes that you can create with ease, along with an arsenal of cooking and baking techniques that you’ll use forever.
I am a ‘Le Cordon Bleu’ certified recipe developer and professional food photographer. I made a career of developing recipes & photographing them for other bloggers and decided that my own food blog was the next chapter for me.
I hope you enjoy these recipes I have developed for you ……..

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