creamy coconut rice pudding with date compote recipe {dairy-free}
As a mum, I feel like I spend all my life preparing food. As a food blogger, I feel like I spend all my time thinking about food. There’s barely a second that goes by when I’m not doing one or the other, so much so that some would call me obsessed. I do. […]
roast pumpkin + brown rice salad w/ spiced coriander dressing recipe
I grew up eating brown rice and I think the first time I ever ate white I was already well into my teenage years. My siblings and I used to live off the stuff and my brother Ben mastered the art of a good cheesy fried-rice (brown rice, onion, soy sauce, sesame seeds and grated […]
creamy lentil soup recipe + a cookbook review
I don’t know about you, but there are two things I always do when I first lay hands on a new cookbook. One, I read the introduction to get a feel for who the author is, where they are from and where they are going to take me. Two, I start reading from the back […]
roast tomato and thyme macaroni ‘cheese’ recipe {gluten-free, vegan}
I received an email from a reader the other day after my last post, it read: “As much as it sound delicious, Dairy free it is not, since it has eggs.” I wont lie. I was dumbstruck and sat there starring at the computer screen scratching my head. Really? Dairy-free it is not, since it has eggs. I […]
beetroot and aubergine pilau recipe
We eat rice in some form or other pretty much every day, whether it’s rice porridge for breakfast, rice milk smoothie, rice flour in baking, rice as a side or rice as the shining star. This dish is definitely the later. Rice forms the basis of this deceptively tasty dish, along with meltingly tender spiced aubergine (eggplant), […]
healthy banana, date + orange cookie recipe and kids lunch-box ideas
I’m still finding it hard to comprehend, but in a mere four days my big baby girl will be starting school *gulp*. For some reason when the kindy year finished last year, I thought that between then and now things would have changed, you know, she would seem older and I would seem well, ready. […]
roasted cherry tomato pasta salad with Kalamata olive dressing recipe
Since moving house, we’ve had two large boxes of picked tomatoes hanging around waiting for me to do something with them. See, when we left the old house we stripped our plants of all their tomatoes, even the green ones. Which have now been slowly ripening off the vine (and some, rotting sadly). What initially […]
