Tag: Salad

Five of My Favourite Sides from 2020

What were my five favourite sides? So hard to choose but a few of these could be meals on their own when paired with some tofu or halloumi. Or maybe you would prefer to stir through a beautiful piece of baked salmon. The possibilities are endless.

Five of my favourite salads from 2020

“When you start with quality produce, a few simple flavours will complement and contrast with your base ingredients to create the perfect taste experience.  Think of food with passion, not anxiety, and feel free to substitute and add ingredients as you please.  This is often how personalised culinary masterpieces are created.” – Marie Claire. It is so easy to get creative when preparing a fabulous salad. Lend your personal to touch to some of my favourites.

Summer Chicken & Melon Salad & Pavlova Mash

Hello everyone, Well I am very excited this week because I have one of my overseas family members arriving home tomorrow.  You know what this means don’t you!  Many, many Wine Wednesdays.  However, because they are only visiting for a short time we will have to have Wine Wednesday, Tequila Tuesday, Thirsty Thursday and Sangria […]

Seared Salmon & Rockmelon Flan

“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” – Anna Thomas Hello everyone!  Gosh don’t the weeks churn over quickly and here we are again ready to try a new recipe from one of my many cookbooks.  I am leaning on Raising the Salad Bar again this week, […]

Provencal Chicken Salad and Fresh Fruit Shortcakes

  “The evidence is overwhelming at this point.  You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.” – Mark Bittman Hi everyone, So I have a confession……I have a love/hate relationship with salads. I always feel great during and after I have eaten them but when I am looking at a menu […]

Lamb Fillets with Creamy Pesto & Mango Roulade

Hi there everyone, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all. Hope you are enjoying the warmer weather and longer days and survived the silly season unscathed.  It’s a great time to start eating outside and doing more gorgeous salads (much to the MAV’s dismay!).  This week was a real winner.  It’s not often I get all […]

Spinach Pie & Apple Bavarois

Hi Everyone, hope you have had a happy week trying out some new recipes. This week we have gone vegetarian much to the displeasure of the MAV.  Seriously… who doesn’t like a good spinach pie??  Yes, yes, I know it can at times be a little bland and the meat lovers in your house may […]

Vietnamese Prawn Salad & Chocolate Mousse

Welcome back everyone, hope you’ve had a fab week cooking up a storm. So let’s put away the phones and i-pads and sit around the table and converse – hey no looking at those apple watches either with all the messages and emails coming through on them and you thinking you’re doing it secretly – […]