Vegetarian

Start lowering your carbon footprint on ‘Meatless Mondays’ with these dishes.

It is so important to not only help the planet but to also maintain (or reduce) our waistlines by having at least one meat-free meal a week. I have many more than that and I love sharing them here for your inspiration.

Sticky quinoa and peanut muesli squares

Posted on September 2, 2011

Quinoa flakes. There is something you don’t see everyday. That’s them sprinkled about in the photo above.

When I spotted a box at my local health food store I immediately popped them into my shopping basket. I just can’t resist cooking with a new and exciting ingredient. (more…)

Savoury fetta and olive muffins (plus, they’re GF!)

Posted on August 29, 2011

I’m really quite partial to a savoury muffin. They’re much better than a boring slice of toast for dunking into soup and they soak up gravy with gusto.

However, the best way to eat them is warm, sliced in half and slathered with good butter. No accompanying meal required. (more…)

Turkish delight and walnut muffins

Posted on August 16, 2011

This is such an amazing combination for muffins! If you’re a Turkish delight lover then you are in for a treat and a half, let me tell you.

I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to work with Vitasoy this year and even more so when it involves cooking up gorgeous muffins like these.

This fabulous flavour combo is the brainchild of one very clever Vitasoy fan who submitted it as part of competition. There were hundreds of entries, but only eight lucky little muffin flavours were handed over to yours truly, to develop into full-blown recipes. (more…)

Cranberry dried fruit compote

Posted on August 5, 2011

Even though we’ve had some sunny Winter days, there is still a chill in the morning air, which means porridge is a very enticing breakfast option.

If you’re in the northern hemisphere then muesli will be a more likely choice, but everyone is in luck, because this compote goes equally well with both!

It can even masquerade as a dessert over ice cream, if you’re so inclined, although we’ll be eating it with porridge this week. (more…)

Peanut butter biscuits + Queen Royal Icing

Posted on July 26, 2011

When I saw this recipe for peanut butter biscuits on Eating Out Loud I got very excited.

Why? Biscuits. 3 ingredients. Gluten free. See?

Allen‘s recipes always work a treat, but only three ingredients in a biscuit recipe sounded outrageously undoable (a word?), and then also gluten free – that was just too much for my curious mind. I had to bake them. (more…)