Avoca carrot salad
I was looking for something nice to do with carrots yesterday, found this recipe and adapted it slightly. We didn't have the coarse-grain mustard or the honey so we left both out and thought it was...
Gluten-free Bazargan/Middle Eastern grain salad
This is my gluten-free take on a delicious Middle Eastern bulgar wheat salad by Claudia Roden. Instead of wheat, I use millet (naturally gluten-free). Everyone takes seconds when I serve it at a...
White bean, tapenade & aubergine salad
This is a lovely, earthy and filling summer main course, perfect with a large green salad and maybe something stodgey like a baked sweet potato or some squash wedges. Best eaten warm or at room...
Lemonade
If life gives you lemons...make lemonade This is SUCH an easy recipe and just the thing for a day like today, in the garden, after work...I've adapted it from Patrick Holford's recipe in Food...
Aubergine antipasto with pine nuts & herbs
This is a superb but simple recipe I cut out of a magazine years ago. No idea who wrote it. I made a large plate of it recently for a family birthday and we grazed on it for the rest of the...
Greek grilled green peppers with oregano & feta
The good weather got me thinking of this really simple, delicious dish. A Greek classmate once showed me how to make it. She simply charred the peppers in a few minutes over an open gas flame but...
Summer wilted kale salad
This is a very quick and easy uncooked vegetable dish which I really like. With some protein like fish, meat, a frittata/omelette or a bean salad it provides a balanced meal. Unless you have tons...
Green power juice
This is my absolute favourite juice of the moment. You need a masticating juicer like the Samson from www.juicers.ie for juicing leafy greens. If you can get organic produce (especially spinach)...
Cleanser juice (carrot, ginger, beetroot and celery)
I sometimes also call this Dracula juice in order to get kids to try it. For first time vegetable juice tasters, I usually add apple juice (and less beetroot) to make it taste a little more...
Puy lentil salad
Now the weather is lovely, my thoughts turn to all those things I can make in advance to graze on over the weekend, or for weekday lunchboxes. The colours of the lemon zest, herbs, carrots and red...