This one pot vegetarian main is inspired by the Dhals of India but with the flavours of Thailand. It’s spiced with garlic, ginger, red chilli along with Thai red curry paste and of course coconut milk. Feel free to add a tin of drained chickpeas when adding the coconut milk […]
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This is a fantastic little recipe to have up your sleeve. If you are like me you usually have sheets of puff pastry in the freezer and an apple or two in the fruit bowl. It’s perfect to whip up quickly if you invite friends to stay for dinner or […]
Just as the title says this is a quick and easy way to turn a tin of beans (or your own stove top cooked beans) into a tasty Mexican style bean side. You can use the beans in any of your favourite Mexican or TexMex dishes, tacos, burrito bowls, nachos […]
I know cooking your own beans can seem too much trouble or annoying, ie. all that remembering to soak the beans overnight! But this recipe is just as easy as opening a can of beans and they are so much better. Beans cooked from scratch have so much extra flavour, […]
Well, it’s that time of year again, zucchini time! If you, like me, have a huge glut of zucchinis this is a great recipe to try out. It is based on a Julia Child recipe from Volume II of Mastering The Art of French Cooking but has been adapted by […]
This hummus recipe is super smooth and delicious. Feel free to alter the quantities of lemon, garlic and tahini to suit you, I like it with just a hint of garlic but heavy on the lemon. It is great with pita or bread and will keep in the fridge for […]
A little vegetarian chilli option for your meat free Monday and it is even vegan if you don’t top with the sour cream or cheese. It’s super easy, really tasty and best of all really healthy, which is just what’s needed after the Christmas, New Year holidays. Recipe comes from […]
My little food blog turns 2 this month so I thought it was the perfect time to post a recipe for a birthday cake. I love the story behind the development of this recipe. It is from the Bon Appetit “basically” website and was developed by Chris Morocco. He tells […]
This incredibly simple but delicious dip is from Alison Roman’s new cookbook “Nothing Fancy”. For those of you that haven’t heard of Alison, she writes for NYTimes Cooking along with Bon Appetite and her first book was “Dining In”. She is the person behind “the cookies” and “the stew” (if […]
As you would realise from the majority of my posts, I’m not a vegetarian! But we do like to have at least one meat free dinner a week – preferably more. This recipe has been adapted from one found on the NYT cooking site. It is delicious, very filling and […]