Tag: quick and easy
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Chickpea and Zucchini Fritters Recipe
I truly believe you can’t have too many fritter recipes up your sleeve. These chickpea and zucchini fritters from Donna Hay came about from google search when the only vegetables I had in the vegetable drawer was a lone zucchini and a bag of carrots. Because I am always prepared for the apocalypse I always…
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Delicious Vegan Chickpea Blondies Recipe
A couple of months ago I posted a recipe for black bean brownies, soon after I posted that recipe I started making these chickpea blondies and I haven’t made the brownies since. In the battle of the bean based sweet treats these blondies have won. They are vegan, gluten free and potentially (if you use…
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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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Refreshing Cucumber Salad: Simple and Versatile
This simple cucumber salad can be adapted to almost any style of cuisine. It works well as a side in a larger meal or is a refreshing add on as part of a cheese platter or in sandwiches. It’s a salad for when you can’t be bothered to make a salad but need something fresh…
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Vegan Chickpea ‘Tuna’ Salad Recipe
‘Chickpea of the Sea’ is a vegan smashed chickpea ‘tuna’ style salad. I haven’t made it for years, but I’m on the search for things that I can prep and have in the fridge for sandwich and toast toppings. I’d forgotten how surprisingly delicious chickpea ‘tuna’ salad was, I had it for lunch over the…
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Easy Porcini Risotto Recipe
This recipe for porcini risotto comes from an old newspaper clipping from many years ago. I’ve been slowly going through my old recipe binders and rediscovering old favorites from my files. This risotto is very, very good and like many of my rediscovered recipes I don’t quite understand why it fell from favor. This risotto…
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Easy Greek Goddess Dip Recipe for Parties
I recently watched the Martha Stewart documentary on Netflix and it made me nostalgic for those bacchanalian feasts of the eighties, whole wheels of brie, baskets of strawberries and tables of beautifully arranged vegetable crudites. The eighties was all about excess even if it was in the form of masses of vegetable crudites. On Sunday…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 