Category: Light meals
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Jo’s Kumura & Bacon Salad
We’ve recently made some lovely new friends from NZ. It’s kinda rare to make genuine new connections at this age with the daily hustle often getting in the way, but the kids have brought us together with some lovely new peeps of late. It’s a real joy to find new souls to share in the many excitements…
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Broccoli, pancetta, mint & macadamia salad
Lifted from goodfood.com.au, this salad is a meal in itself. The addition of macadamias is genius, so flavoursome, it just keeps giving with every mouthful; and in light of the large volume of broccoli, it has to be healthy, right?
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Spelt & Spice Buns
The kids are finding it hard to accept Easter having passed for the year – no more chocolate eggs (thank God, Mummy ate most of them!) along with the fact that there are no more hot crossed buns in the shops. We made these delicious currant buns with spelt this morning which made a great rainy day…
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Mexican chowder
What a freezer we’re having this winter. I can’t remember these sub-zero temperatures so consistently throughout the cold season before. Certainly inspiration to whip up some belly warming soups. This is a variation on a recipe I found on the Good Food site. The kids would have loved it had I not accidentally used hot…
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Granola Bars
I’ve been trying to find a quick, easy and healthy breakfast on the go for the boy for those mornings when a big bowl of porridge is just too much of an ask. Something that will fill that little belly and keep him ticking until morning tea and avoid the familiar crabby meltdown of a…
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Japanese Pancakes (Okonomiyaki)
You know how no matter how small a piece of cabbage you buy, you’ve always got way too much left over? A little bit of cabbage goes a long way.. This is a great way to use it up and a dead easy Friday night dinner that you can hide heaps of veg in for the kids.…
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Freekeh Salad
What a tasty little grain this is. Freekeh is young, green wheat which has been toasted and cracked. One of the so called ‘ancient grains’ which have made a resurgence in recent years, it is packed full of goodness and tastes great too. I can’t get it at my supermarket, but I think some fancy…
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Avocado Salad with Cumin and Pepitas
I recently bought the most beautiful new cookbook by Ashley Rodriguez – she’s a former chef in the US who has the award winning blog ‘Not Without Salt’. The book is called ‘Date Night In’ and it’s packed full of decadent feasts to share with your significant other, designed to get the juices flowing and…
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Easy Bean Salad with Goats Cheese
When you’re feeling a bit cooked out this time of year and really can’t be bothered, this is a great quick, light and healthy little salad which goes well with chicken, meat or fish. I usually serve it with spiced lamb back straps, but it would be good with roast chicken (store bought is fine…
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Ricotta Salata with Tomatoes, Onion and Basil
Who’s sick of the tasteless tomatoes selling at the shops right now? Even in the peak of summer, green, yellow, orange or red, they just don’t seem to have any flavour. Farmers markets are definitely the go until our tomatoes are ready later in the summer. When they are, this salad makes the most of the…
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Salmon Log
Now for a bit of retro food glamour and a walk down memory lane. My Nana used to make this dish a lot, and when I say ‘a lot’ I mean, A LOT. She brought a salmon log along to every occasion, big or small and always had some spare logs stashed in her freezer…
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Ricotta and Parmesan Dumplings with Tomato and Basil Sauce
I never got the hang of potato gnocchi. The couple of times I’ve made it, it’s turned out heavy and tough. I think it’s a case of too much flour, anyway, I gave it away for this lighter, simpler ricotta version (taken from the Two Greedy Italians), which I’ve made many times.
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Bang Bang Chicken
Ignore the image (if you can)… This is a great easy summer dinner which takes poached chicken salad to a whole new level. The recipe I use is from SBS Food, but there are more than a few different versions out there. I remember reading that this is a traditional Chinese street food snack
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Christmas Eve Tuna Melts
This has become a bit of a family tradition in recent years. Something to kick off the rich food fest that is Christmas and easy to boot.