Baked eggs Shakshuka with tomato sauce and beans make for a bright and spicy start to the day with simple, healthy ingredients. Can be eaten with a slice of your favourite bread or on its own. This middle-eastern inspired dish of baked eggs, hearty tomato sauce and made as a complete filling meal with the…
Category: fast dinners
Warm roast pumpkin quinoa & lentil salad
You don’t need to be vegetarian to enjoy this warm roast pumpkin, quinoa and lentil salad. This colourful warm salad is perfect for those autumn days where the days are slowly becoming a little shorter, and the air a little cooler. Enjoying salads in the cooler weather is even more important as they are loaded…
Healthy Grilled Eggplant Layered and Stacked with Herbed Ground Beef | A Quick mid-week meal
Stacks of succulent grilled eggplant are layered with a tasty herb loaded Ground Beef & tomato sauce to make a hearty, decadent and healthy meal. The eggplant absorbs the middle-eastern inspired sauce infused with herbs and spices. If you haven’t had grilled eggplant before, when prepared right it is crispy brown on the outside and…
Chicken Laksa Soup
You must try this Chicken Laksa Soup Recipe if you can at least once. There is something inherently pleasing about digging into a nice bowl of laksa, with its rich, fragrant and a little spicy creaminess. This laksa soup is complete with all the toppings you would find in a classic Laksa Dish. My daughter’s…
Dutch Carrot and Beetroot Salad with Roasted Brussel Sprouts
An easy beetroot and spinach salad recipe is so simple and a tasty way to enjoy those autumn flavours. A mixture of blistered brussel sprouts, dutch carrots, beets, english spinach and lentils, they make a nutrient-dense and filling salad that works so well as part of a healthy dinner. This recipe can be enjoyed for…
Tuna and Quinoa Salad
Tuna and tri-colour quinoa salad is packed with protein, fresh green goodness and flavour. It is high in fibre, magnesium, b vitamins, iron potassium, calcium and various antioxidants. super easy to eat and above all makes a perfect healthy dinner recipe. There is an abundance of health benefits in the humble mushroom such as high…
Black-eyed Bean and Spinach Salad ( mavromatika )
Black-eyed peas are wonderful as a soup but you may discover after trying this recipe equally enjoyable as a cool bean salad. This black eyed bean recipe is a vegans delight as it falls in the legume family but it also makes a healthy Mediterranean diet friendly meal during the summer. I use dried black-eyed…
Easy & Healthy Basil Pesto Pasta Recipe
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Traditional Greek Salad Recipe ( Horiatiki, χωριατικι σαλατα )
Many debate about what goes into a Traditional Greek salad in order to reproduce that insanely robust and fresh flavour. What should be agreed upon is that a Greek salad is meant to be uncomplicated and fresh – and by fresh: the tomatoes should be sun-ripened on the vine not rose coloured but vivid deep…
Pan-Seared Crispy Skin Snapper, Chickpea, Spinach and Tomato Stew with Herb Salad
A busy day at work is a good reason to finish off the day yearning for a relaxing meal and a nice glass of wine. This dish comes together quickly and yet brings to the table a nice complex mix of flavours due to the spices and fresh herbs at play. My little vegetable garden…
Italian Styled Crispy Zucchini Blossoms stuffed with Ricotta and Pecorino
Its still officially winter here in Australia and a little too early for me to be picking zucchini blossoms. I was overjoyed when my fruit grocer found some blossoms from his daily market trip. As it was early in the season the blossoms were slightly smaller than the usual. Don’t be mistaken they were perfect…
Basil, Mushroom, Chicken and Slow-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes Penne Pasta
On some nights, warm cooked tender chicken tenderloins, moist slow-roasted cherry tomatoes, hearty mushrooms and basil with and a hefty bowl of pasta is a nice way to finish off the day. It may have been that I haven’t eaten pasta in a little while, but without a doubt this by far has been the…
