#bxllockdown Day 31 Splendid Soups and Sandwiches / Recipe 5 This creamy broccoli soup recipe has brought soups back into my life, and most importantly to the life of my children. Mine are not particularly fussy about eating broccoli but they moan about soup. I used their love of Asian cuisine and created this soup….
Category: One Pot Wonders
Chickpea Tikka Masala
#bxllockdown Day 17 VEGAN WEEK / RECIPE 5 Friday nights were traditionally take-away (or order-in) night at our house. But since our favourite Indian is closed due to lockdown I thought maybe we can have a go at making a vegan tikka masala at home. I have been wanting to try a recipe out but…
Pumpkin & Ginger Soup
#bxllockdown Day 14 – week 2 VEGAN WEEK / RECIPE 2 I kicked off my Vegan week with something Turkish but I felt it wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t share something Australian. I have to admit, I don’t know if Pumpkin soup is Australian, to begin with, but when I feel homesick I make this…
KISIR (Bulgur Wheat Salad)
#bxllockdown Day 13 VEGAN WEEK / RECIPE 1 It’s time to kick back, get a nice cuppa and read about… yes you guessed it! FOOD. I’m officially kicking off my week of vegan food challenge. Read, research, fuse cuisines together and eat vegan. That is my motto for the week. Our first recipe is an old favourite…
Carb Free Leek & Chicken Pizza
#bxllockdown Day 9 Food is an important part of my day. I need a warm dinner, Just a salad or a sandwich for dinner does not appeal to me unless it’s an exceptionally hot summer’s day. The only problem is I still want to watch my weight and cleanse my body of carbs once in…
Quinoa Chili
#bxllockdown Day 7 Looking at my weekly menu planning, I realise more and more the amount of carbs we consume. So, I thought perhaps lets change it up a bit and add Quinoa to the menu. As the new superfood Quinoa packs the highest nutrition of all grains and it is easy to prepare. No…
Stuffed Zucchini (or is it Courgette?)
#bxllockdown Day 4 I have decided to bring in the big guns… Stuffed zucchinis (or is it courgettes?) I have grown up calling it a zucchini back home in Oz, but in my adopted country, Belgium, we call them courgettes. It doesn’t matter what we choose to call them, they are delicious and very versatile….
Istanbul Style Rice with Aubergines
The aubergine is the undisputed king of vegetables in the Turkish kitchen. First cultivated and eaten in India and quickly spreading across the Asian continent, the aubergine was prized for its mild flavour and smooth texture. Turks claim to have more than a hundred ways to prepare aubergine. A meze table without an aubergine dish (or…
Chicken & Vegetable Thai Red Curry
There is are two ways to make a Thai red curry. One where you make your curry paste and one where you buy the curry paste. In this post, I will give you a simple recipe where we use store-bought curry paste. We will use frozen vegetables as it may not be always possible to…
Lamb Shanks for Love
With Valentines Day approaching there are many ideas floating around on “what to do?”, “where to go?”, “what to offer?” and of course “what to cook?”. I recently heard a song about Valentines Day that said “I don’t know how to fit all the love and all the loneliness in one day”, it really rang true…
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