MY DARLING LEMON THYME

lavender + orange broccoli with quinoa recipe

I celebrated my birthday this weekend just gone and because hubby was working away I took it upon myself to sort a few presents out, you know… for myself, which really is not as sad as it sounds! Typically for me, all I wanted was a couple of new cookbooks, so I picked up one […]

broccoli + rocket pesto recipe {vegan}

Mere moments before we all start to bare arms and legs in the celebration of spring, I thought I’d quickly get one last winter vege-style dish into the mix, pimped up with a few lovely spring herbs and greens from the garden.  I’ve been making broccoli pesto since way back in the day when I […]

dahl maharani recipe

It’s been a very indecisive week around here. As you can see I’ve made a few changes to this blog and if you stopped by in the last few days while I was chopping and changing you may have wondered what the hell I was up to! Haha, me too. For a minute there I […]

roast kumara, chickpea and feta salad with spiced lemon dressing

There was a knock at the door early yesterday morning. I was in the middle of getting dressed so took a little while to get to the front door, all the while hoping it wasn’t one of those annoying door-to-door sales people that have a knack for ridiculous timing. I opened the door to see my friend […]

beetroot + orange salad with honey mustard miso dressing

Lately we’ve been returning home from the weekend markets laden with bags of citrus. There’s always a couple of different kinds of mandarins for the kids lunches, sweet Bindoon oranges for eating and last week I even went crazy and bought a 12kg bag of oranges for juicing. I really do have to find myself […]

chickpea and leek soup recipe

I’m feeling way better than I did a few days ago. I’ve been drinking loads of my lemon rosemary tea and clearing my sinuses with this, but Si’s still been complaining that I’m keeping him awake with my constant dry cough all night long. I’ve been so tired it hasn’t even been waking me up, but […]

jerk tempeh with coriander (cilantro) sauce recipe

It’s all too easy in this day and age to focus on the bad, sad and ugly reality of life that faces so many around the world. Obesity, diabetes, cancer and disease as well as genetically modified foods, additives and chemicals are catch phrases we are all too familiar with in the 21st century. But amongst all this sadness there […]