Category: Recipes
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Delicious Black Barley Salad with Cauliflower and Pomegranate
Black barley is an ancient grain, unlike modern barley where the husk is removed the husk on black barley is kept intact. This makes it a nutritionally rich source of vitamins B and E, calcium, iron and potassium. It is also cholesterol free and a good source of fiber and selenium. I recently cut out…
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Moist Orange Poppyseed Cake Recipe with Almond Flour
I’m on an ayurvedic diet at the moment which has cut plain wheat flour and refined sugar from my diet. This means I haven’t been baking that many cakes and biscuits and when I have baked I’ve been experimenting with using different flours and sugar replacements like monkfruit. Sugar replacements like monkfruit are super expensive…
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Cozy Japanese Eggs and Cabbage Recipe
I used to make these Japanese eggs and cabbage a lot many years ago, but they were always part of a larger meal. About a month ago I made them on a cold and rainy day as a lunch for myself and I’ve been making them once or twice a week since then. This is…
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Wholesome Seed Bars: A Healthy Sweet Treat Recipe
I’ve made these seed bars a few times as a wholesome sweet treat. The first couple of times I dipped them in chocolate, which made them a slightly decadent and delicious treat. This time, I was making them for this post and I kept procrastinating about the chocolate and ended eating the batch without the…
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Flavor-Packed Shredded Tofu with Charred Shallots
I first made this shredded tofu for a vegetarian option in a taco dinner party, which had a braised beef brisket as the main star. Surprisingly, the brisket eaters happily devoured the tofu alongside the meat option. Perhaps this wasn’t so surprising because this shredded tofu is totally delicious. I came across this recipe via…
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Pasta with cauliflower, walnuts and feta
I used to make this pasta a lot. I was reminded to revisit it after many years because I had a couple packets of Girolomoni wholemeal spelt pasta in pantry. That is the thing about this dish, you need the heft of a good quality wholemeal pasta, to stand up to robust flavors of the…
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Iraqi White Bean Stew
This white bean stew from Meera Sodha makes a great midweek dinner. If you have some canned white beans on hand you can get get dinner on the table in half an hour or so. Simple, sustaining and delicious – you can’t go wrong with that. Note: If you have some of the spice mix…
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Easy Buckwheat Pikelets Recipe
I’m not sure whether to call these little pancakes buckwheat pikelets or blini. I’ve changed up my tried and true pikelet recipe, from Margaret Fulton and used half a buckwheat and half spelt flour. Traditionally blini are yeasted pancakes but these little buckwheat pikelets are a no fuss way to make blinis using baking powder.…
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How to Make the Perfect Black Bean Soup
I love the end of summer for the abundance of produce but it is also my favourite time of year because as the weather cools it’s time to make soup! This black bean soup makes a good transitional soup as the summer eases into autumn. Its colourful fresh garnishes and a side of tortilla chips…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 