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Spaghetti Squash with Tomato Sauce
When the weather starts cooling down, spaghetti squash recipes start popping up. I think it’s such a fun, underrated vegetable and a delicious pasta alternative. Spaghetti squash can be used in salads, stir-fries, curries and even casseroles. It’s so healthy and versatile. You can enjoy it plain and simple with salt, pepper and melted butter…
Read MoreMujadara – Rice and Lentils
Mujadara (mudardara) is a hearty protein packed dish of rice and lentils topped with caramelized onions. It is often referred to as peasant food because of how inexpensive and simple it is to make, and there are many variations of the recipe. The Basics of What You Need: lentils – use green or black lentils. Don’t…
Read MoreFresh Salad Rolls
Fresh salad rice paper rolls are one of my favourite summer meals. On hot summer days don’t need to turn on the oven or stove to make these colourful rolls. They are fun to make, so crisp and refreshing to eat, made even better when dipped into the delicious tahini based sauce. The filling ingredients…
Read MoreTomato Galette
It’s tomatoes all day, every day and every which way! The vines are drooping with ripening tomatoes. Some big, some small, all so bright, juicy and delicious! A galette is one of the easiest meals to make. The pastry serves as a blank canvas just waiting to be filled with your choice of ingredients. I’ve…
Read MoreBrown Rice Noodle Salad
Hot days call for quick and easy light meals. The first thing that comes to mind is a cold noodle salad. Today’s salad is a combination of crunchy veggies and a tangle of slurpy noodles. This is another one of those recipes that appeals to me so much because delicious food doesn’t have to be…
Read MoreZucchini Noodle Salad with Peanut Orange Dressing
When you crave something fresh and vibrant, you do some fridge foraging. Starting with a few zucchinis (our garden zucchini’s are not ready yet). So I got out my trusty spiralizer and made a zucchini noodle salad with peanut orange sesame dressing. This dish is loaded with texture and colour and it’s a great way to add…
Read MoreSummer Quiche
I really feel that quiche is a most underrated dish. Who’s with me? This summer quiche starts with layers and layers of golden crispy phyllo (that you don’t have to blind bake). The pastry is filled with a fluffy egg custard and you can really add anything you want to the mixture. I filled mine with…
Read MoreSouthwestern Salad Bowl Buffet
I made a deconstructed Southwestern Salad for a buffet lunch last weekend. I prepared all the components and the family then assembled their own bowls. This is definitely an easy way to feed a crowd. There are a lot of elements when it comes to making these salad bowls, but it’s so worth it. So…
Read MoreSmoked Trout Niçoise Salad
Smoked Trout Niçoise Salad is my twist on this inviting versatile meal. You just can’t go wrong with all of these delicious components looking so pretty on a platter. I had a lovely piece smoked trout (thanks to my hubby who is the official smoker around here) that was begging to be made into a Niçoise…
Read MoreCape Malay Pickled Fish
I recently made this Curried Fish aka Cape Malay Pickled Fish and it brought the most amazing food memories flooding back, as this was a dish that we enjoyed growing up in South Africa. My mother and grandmother used to make it all the time. I have not had it or made it in many…
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