Posts Tagged ‘quick’

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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Ham, Mushroom & Feta Salad (no dressing required!)

I’ve been in the mood for lighter dinner meals lately, and came up with this tonight. :-) And it’s easy as! Doesn’t need dressing either; there’s enough flavour in there as is. Ingredients (Serves 2) 1 Desiree potato, washed & unpeeled 100g fetta, diced (get the ‘real’ stuff; e.g., no cows milk! Sheep and goat […]

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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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Stuffed Mushrooms

I’ve been experimenting a lot with my cooking and making up recipes of my own accord lately; this is a result of one such experiment. I made these for my Grandma’s birthday :-) We lunched on them together and she gave them a thumbs up. Ingredients (Serves 4) 4 large flat portobello mushrooms 1 250g […]

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Nut & Chickpea Dip with Garlic

Over the silly season, I went a bit bonkers and bought a whole lot of cookbooks (I already have heaps but… christmas!… :-P). This self-made recipe was enjoyed by & passed on to my mum-in-law, and draws on two recipes for inspiration (see notes below recipe). Ingredients (Makes 12 serves of dip, can be frozen […]

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