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Quick & easy Thai beef salad

December 14, 2017 by date with a plate.

I am back. Finally. Sorry – I got really distracted. It’s been a long time coming but I am slowly stepping back into blog-land. Now I need to figure out how to stay consistent…any tips? I have been thinking a lot lately about healthy meals – and that healthy doesn’t have to mean boring, bland or difficult. In fact, it’s my new mission to make it quite the opposite. And while I apprentice that there’s lots of others already doing […]

Categories: Asian, BBQ, Beef, Dinner, Lunch, mid-week, Salad • Tags: beansprouts, beef, capsicum, coriander, cucumber, dinner, easy, lime, Mint, onion, tomato

Italian sausage and lentil soup

April 8, 2015 by date with a plate.

Sick? Tired? My Italian sausage and lentil soup is a real crowd pleaser. It’s easy to make, cheap and freezes like a boss – so I tend to make large batches and keep some (quite literally) for a rainy day. Like so many good home cooking recipes, this was born from a mixture of being sick at home and resisting a trip to the shops. The result was pleasantly surprising and it’s been on the menu ever since. While technically […]

Categories: Dinner, mid-week, One Pot Wonder, Soup • Tags: asparagus, capsicum, carrot, garlic, Italian sausages, lentils, onion, tomato

Greek salad

April 9, 2014 by date with a plate.

There’s something about this super simple salad that makes me happy, but I’m not sure what exactly it is. Perhaps it is my all consuming love for juicy, ripe tomatoes, or perhaps my love for creamy, salty feta that results in me absentmindedly placing the ingredients into my trolley every time I go to the shops. As you can imagine, traveling the Greek Islands for me was a real pleasure, I spent two weeks island hopping with my travel buddy […]

Categories: Salad • Tags: capsicum, dill, easy, feta, Greek, Jamie Oliver, olive oil, olives, onion, oregano, tomato

Fattoush

January 20, 2014 by date with a plate.

A small local Lebanese restaurant has sparked my interest in this wonderful cuisine, so much so that I often find myself making any excuse possible to return. From the meat to the sides and the irresistible Labneh – I have fallen deeply in love with this country’s wonderful dishes. I tried my own version of Fattoush over the weekend and it wasn’t a bad first attempt. It’s a simple salad, but the dressing and the crispy flat bread transform it […]

Categories: Salad • Tags: capsicum, cos lettuce, flat bread, Lebanese, lemon, Mint, paprika, parsley, radish, sumac, tomato

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Quick & easy Thai beef salad

Italian sausage and lentil soup

Greek salad

Fattoush