Tag: Healthy

Spiced cranberry sauce and baked apples

Spiced cranberry sauce and baked apples

I am not a fan of cranberry sauce, nor apple sauce. I find the sauces mix weird with gravy for an odd flavour and texture that doesn’t really work. This sauce is more of a side-dish, and won’t need additional gravy. The flavours compliment a […]

Asian pork hoisin wrap recipe

Asian pork hoisin wrap recipe

The title, Asian pork hoisin wrap, is pretty self-explanatory. The wrap has few ingredients, and is easy to make. But it packs a lot of flavours. This wrap is the last part of my wraps series that I started earlier (the series is essentially, types […]

Vegetarian blue cheese, apple, walnut wrap

Vegetarian blue cheese, apple, walnut wrap

Blue cheese, apples, and walnuts are a flavour match made in heaven. I have added some greens and vegetables that are subtle in flavour so that they do not detract from the major flavour combination. That being said, I have included and substitution chart below […]

Latin American mixed rice salad with plantains

Latin American mixed rice salad with plantains

A “Latin-American mixed rice salad” will usually have a lot more ingredients in it to hint towards a Central American feel. That being said, this “Latin-American” mixed rice salad is a rather loose term for it. The salad incorporates some Central American spices and flavours, […]

Pork, apple, and walnut wrap

Pork, apple, and walnut wrap

2 weeks ago, I made a post about a Pork, Apple, and Blue Cheese wrap. The issue that I find with wraps is that I rarely get through the tortillas once I purchase them. So I have decided to create a part 2 to that […]

Pesto sea bass and almonds with a tropical salad

Pesto sea bass and almonds with a tropical salad

  Sea bass, I find is a great hybrid of salmon and cod. It is a white fish, so you can do a lot with the flavours and play with it, but it also has the skin on the fish that you can crisp up […]

Pork, Apple, Blue Cheese Wrap

Pork, Apple, Blue Cheese Wrap

I love lunch, it is one of my favourite meals. However, I am really lazy when it comes to lunch. The weekends are great for me, because I can take the time to properly prep things. Wraps are one of my favourite lunches because you […]

Prawn and Avocado Rice Salad

Prawn and Avocado Rice Salad

I had been playing with the idea of a rice salad for some time, and I had been having a difficult time thinking of low-calorie, but yummy lunch ideas.  There were some criteria that it needed to fullfill, and them being: Good Low-calorie Portable Can […]

Roasted Butternut Squash and Tomato Salad Recipe

Roasted Butternut Squash and Tomato Salad Recipe

  Butternut squash is an incredibly versatile ingredient.  I find that roasting it adds to the already nutty flavour of it.  This vegan recipe is really light and fresh and very easy to be eaten cold.  However, if you prepare the roasted butternut squash and […]

Vegan Cabbage and Apricot Couscous

Vegan Cabbage and Apricot Couscous

This is a really great vegan recipe for couscous.  It does have just the simple ingredients of couscous, but instead the apricot goes a lovely chewy texture, with the crunch of the cabbage. I have found this can be a great recipe for a side […]

Strawberry Apricot Hot Apple Cider Recipe

Strawberry Apricot Hot Apple Cider Recipe

This recipe is super simple and easy.  That being said – once can just heat up Apple Juice and call it Apple Cider.  Not one to be outdone, and to make things too too easy, I have decided to spice it up a bit.  And […]

Basic Egg Frittata Recipe

Basic Egg Frittata Recipe

In the whole no-carb movement, I have seen crust less quiches and egg frittatas become all the rage.  However, I really haven’t found many with a recipe that I like or a texture that is good.  This recipe is a hodge podge of another Salmon […]

8 Vegetarian Alternatives to Stock Cubes

8 Vegetarian Alternatives to Stock Cubes

Flavour, flavour makes the world go round and there is absolutely no excuse not to have it.  I have heard numerous arguments from people who are carnivores or omnivores that there is no point going vegetarian, or that they couldn’t go vegetarian, because they couldn’t […]

How To Make Your Own Cosy Asian Broths Recipe

How To Make Your Own Cosy Asian Broths Recipe

I was telling my colleague about creating this food blog and she (in passing) mentioned how she wanted to get some cosy Asian broths for the winter.  Unfortunately for her, little miss smart-ass me actually responded with a large list of different ways and flavours […]

Brussels Sprout & Chestnut Curry Recipe

Brussels Sprout & Chestnut Curry Recipe

I made a curry for my colleague – the Spinach and Broccoli Curry which can be found here.  As we were discussing the randomness of my inclusion of sundried tomato paste, it came about that sometimes there are Brussels Sprout curries. And as per usual, […]

Chickpea, Tomato, Olive and Meatball Soup Recipe

Chickpea, Tomato, Olive and Meatball Soup Recipe

This is a bit of a weird introduction to make, I want to describe the soup, but it is just what it is. It is a soup, in the sense that it is not a stew, but it is not smooth as some people prefer […]