The Cinderella of all vegetables. Over the decades, brussels sprouts have been so incredibly misunderstood. They’ve long been cast aside as a lame bitter vegetable hated by kids and adults alike. I grew up with mum serving these for dinner. She would boil them and serve them as is. Naked. It was quite unappealing to…
Tag: Quick and Easy
Chickpea Salad
Full of crunch, colour & flavour. I love salads all year round. I mean, why limit salads just to the warmer days of the year? sometimes you just need to balance out the heavy stews, casseroles and pastas you have during winter with something lighter. What I love about many salads is the chance for…
Peanut Butter Mug Cake
Dessert in only 5 minutes. I’m sure I’m not the only parent who told their children to eat all their vegetables at dinner with the promise of dessert. I don’t have to do this often thank goodness. So being able to whip up a dessert in a mere 5 minutes is a true lifesaver when…
Creamy Tomato Garlic Prawns
Dinner in 20 minutes! These days I’m working from home like almost everyone else. At first, I hated it. The idea of being confined to my bedroom while the kids ran amuck in the rest of the house drove me insane. But since schools opened up again and they went back, I’ve loved working at…
Stracciatella Soup
A simple Italian soup. Soup weather has finally hit Sydney and it’s starting to get really cold at night. We are after all now officially in winter as at 1st June. But up to now, the weather has been pretty mild. I found this stracciatella soup recipe online that I thought was worth trying. My…
Choc Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
Gluten-free & so easy to make! Imagine a cookie recipe with no butter and no flour. That’s what these choc chip peanut butter cookies have… absolutely no butter and no flour. Are you wondering if this is at all possible? Well, I definitely thought that when I saw this recipe. These choc chip peanut butter…
Hummus
Just 10 minutes for amazing dip. Our kids eat their fair share of hummus on a regular basis. Either with rice crackers or carrot sticks, this is one of their favourite afternoon snacks after school. Their love for it started in preschool where the educators often gave it to the kids as a nutritious snack…
Cannellini Bean Dip
Just a simple can of beans. This recipe is also known as White Bean Dip. However, I prefer to use a more literal name for this recipe. This Cannellini Bean Dip recipe uses a tin of cannellini beans as the star of this recipe. You honestly can’t get easier than this! Plus it’s creamy, delicious…