Posts Tagged ‘quick’

Easy Sausage Casserole

Last night, I’d defrosted some chicken sausages and was feeling lazy. I decided to try and find a recipe that called for the sausages to be cooked in the oven alone, a recipe only needing a casserole dish to complete. I found an Oven roasted sausage and sweet potato recipe and, inspired by this, made […]

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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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Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Brownies with Chocolate Icing

I decided to vary my Dark Chocolate & Almond Brownies recipe by swapping the almond meal for hazelnut meal, and the almonds for hazelnuts. Yummy variation! I also decided to ice them and write things on them with a red icing pen (store-bought) for friends & hubby. Below is the recipe for the chocolate icing […]

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Garlic and Parmesan Bread

This recipe is taken from the garlic bread recipe on simplyrecipes.com, but I’ve altered a few things and changed the measurements into Aussie standards (metric) for my (and your?) convenience. I made this for a bunch of friends when we got together to play Dungeons & Dragons one autumn weeknight and it was all gobbled […]

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