Posts Tagged ‘boiled’

Creamy Herbed Broccoli and Cabbage Soup with Corn Chips

Okay, so it’s been a while! Let me explain briefly; Master in Teaching = Over! Julieanne = Casual Teacher getting lots of work atm luckily. Woo! Anyway, here is a healthy simple soup recipe. I’ve been on a bit of a health kick lately and this one is good for you and uber tasty. Ingredients [...]

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Homemade Pesto Pasta with Fresh Vegetables

My garden’s been going nuts lately (good thing!), and I found myself needing to prune a whole lot of herbs. Aside from mint, which I made into tea, I had shallots, garlic chives and sweet basil to use up. So I thought… hmm… time to try making homemade pesto! This recipe has similarities to another [...]

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Simple Vegie & Mint Stir-Fry with Tapioca Noodles

I’ve been interested lately in the idea of ‘simple’(r) foods (see note no. 1 for more on why) and came up with something yum, where the flavour of the vegies and sesame oil really comes through. The water chestnuts add a beautiful crunchiness too (thanks to Mum for serving these when I was a kid, [...]

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Pesto Pasta with Shitake Mushrooms

I finally managed to find some nice fresh shitake mushrooms today. I LOVE them, they have a different texture to button mushrooms and go very well in pasta dishes in my experience. I decided to whip up a light pesto pasta with them tonight, recipe follows! It’s based on this pesto pasta recipe. The hubby [...]

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Quinoa Salad with Dried Fruit, Avocado & Cashews

I made this salad for friends and family this week, and it went down quite well! My aunt even asked for the recipe. It’s a modification of this awesome quinoa salad recipe. Also, just so you know, quinoa has a weird pronunciation; ‘keen-wa’. More about this yummy seed at the quinoa wikipedia entry. You can [...]

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