Spinach and Feta Piroshki

September 29, 2010

The kids are on school holidays, so there’s no Muesli Bar Challenge baking this week.  So I thought I’d do some adult lunch box baking instead.  One of my favourite bought lunches is a spinach and feta pie – yummy but full of fake fats.  And I feel very silly buying it when I have [...]

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Macadamia Ma-amoul

August 30, 2010

The rules of my Muesli Bar Challenge series are that the Challenger must be healthy (low in sugar and saturated fat, low GI, wholegrain), based on in-season fresh produce, easy enough to be a realistic option for busy parents and kids themselves to make, and rated by my school age reviewers as no-way-going-to-be-left-in-the-lunchbox. So many [...]

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Lemon, Macadamia and Ricotta Blondies

August 2, 2010

I’ve already blogged on about the nutritional value of macadamias and lemons (especially lemon rind), so I won’t go there again.  These are blondies (as opposed to brownies), and as well as macas and lemons, they are a good source of protein with their eggs and low fat ricotta.  They have no butter and very [...]

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Macadamia Wholemeal Shortbread Cookies

July 26, 2010

*Postscript* I was asked to pick my very favourite of the Muesli Bar Challenge recipes, and this is it. The Passionfruit Cheesecake Slice is the most popular recipe, but this one is my all time favourite. These taste like they are full of butter and sugar, and it’s an illusion.  They actually have very little [...]

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Macadamia and Orange Friands

July 19, 2010

When I was a kid, every block in suburban Brisbane had a backyard macadamia tree. Maca season meant finding a good rock with the right kind of hollow to stop the nut flying off, and a good hand sized rock for hitting them with. And for the gourmets, lighting a backyard fire to roast them in. [...]

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Lemon and Ricotta Tarts

June 29, 2010

The dessert version of these is easy, but the healthy lunchbox version is a little trickier.  It is still easy enough, though, to be within the bounds of the Muesli Bar Challenge rule:  easy enough for busy parents and even kids themselves to be bothered actually making, routinely, for daily school or work lunchboxes. The [...]

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Lemon Yoghurt Honey Muffins

June 21, 2010

I have had my (now grown up) kids home for Yule, so this week’s  the Muesli Bar Challenge recipe was baked by Casey.  It is one of his favourite schooldays recipes.  We shall see whether current school-age reviewers agree! Cooking with kids is such fun, even (or specially) grown up ones. Lemons are currently so [...]

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Pumpkin Tarts

June 15, 2010

This is the last of the Muesli Bar Challenge recipes based on pumpkin. I still have a couple of other recipes to post, but the brush turkeys have got the last of our pumpkins. It was good while it lasted! The pumpkin recipes have gone over well with the kids so far, in fact all [...]

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Lemon Polenta Steamed Muffins

June 7, 2010

I forgot to take a picture of the Muesli Bar Challenge this week! We had a brunch party on Sunday morning, and luckily someone took a mobile phone photo that has the ones that I made for that in it. But you don’t really see their blonde enticingness! This recipe has a little more sugar [...]

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