Mid week just-got-home-from-work dinners are my biggest challenge. It's easy to get a nice meal on the table when you have lots of time to plan and prepare and shop for it, but it's trickier on long work days. One of my favourite ways to do it is with prepared curry pastes. I use them [...]
I've been wanting to try out a one pan chicken and rice dish for so long, and what I had in mind was inspired by a paella but was even less effort, and I was after the kind of midweek meal that ticks all the boxes. Classic Mediterranean flavours have been something I'm stuck on, [...]
Even though I can no longer label myself as vegan I do still try to make vegan choices as often as possible and in fact I eat no red meat and very little chicken. {Dairy is the mistress I can't seem to break up with but that's a whole other post.} What makes me happiest [...]
This salad is what you get when the dinner crowd grows unexpectedly at the last minute, so those few chicken schnitzels that were going to feed three now need to stretch to feeding a few more. There's always the pizza option or another trip to the shops for top up's but to be honest I [...]
Still trying to be as vegetarian as I can, family BBQ's would initially seem the most challenging, what with the assumption that a BBQ means red meat. Instead BBQ's are a great way to get some delicious grilled veggies as well as salads and sides that are vegetarian and often vegan too. These skewers were [...]
I cooked a heck of a lot of French toast when I had my cafe, but it wasn't until I made this version that I understood why it's such a popular dish. At the cafe I used a brioche loaf but since such things aren't that readily available I tend to make French toast at [...]
In the mood for something spicy and Thai flavoured and wanting to make use of the many tins of red curry paste I bought without being quite sure why, I decided to use the curry paste as the flavour base for a kick ass stir fry, minus coconut milk or cream to sooth the fire. [...]
There's a very traditional Croatian recipe for stuffed peppers called punjena paprika, literally translated to stuffed or filled capsicums, which are filled with a mix of mince meat and rice, some kind of smoked pork like speck or pancetta, lots of seasoning and is usually served with mashed potato. It's cooked in a tomato based broth [...]
I was searching for something quick, easy, and delicious to serve alongside some BBQ the other day. Something vego that would not require too much effort on what was my lazy Sunday. And apart from a few minutes {literally, about two} spent softening the mushroom stems and one small shallot, these are as low effort [...]
This dish was inspired by two things: the delicious mushroom spring rolls I recently tried at China Doll, and the heatwave conditions this Summer. Cooking dinner on a scorching hot day, even with the a/c working overtime, isn't fun. You want something that requires mere assembly rather than actual cooking, and rice paper rolls are [...]
