Category: Summer

Tortilla Chips – add texture to a bean soup

Fancy up bean soups with fried tortilla strips. Yes, yes, naughty I know, but there you go …

Gingered Carrot Salad

This salad has a nice hot punch .. if it’s too hot for you, add a puddle of yoghurt on top.
And serve a tangy tomato, cucumber, coriander and lemon salad alongside.

Best Burgers

Will ya look at that! Could eat one right now.

Mini Peppers Stuffed with Goat’s Cheese

Pepper cuties to add to an antipasto platter.

Mushroom Burgers – All vegetable burgers

Cor! Fat mushrooms, crunchy buns, velvety avocado, charred tomatoes – open up!

Chicken & Roasted Yellow Pepper Salad

Golden tasty nuggets of chicken atop a mound of salad leaves imbued with sweet and tangy yellow peppers and capers … my kind of dinner.

Baked Peppers with Pine Nuts & Black Garlic

A mouthful of goodness: red peppers, black garlic & pine nuts. Read all about them.

Baked Tomatoes Stuffed with Freekeh

Cute as a button, tomatoes baked with their tops on make a stunning vegetable main course.

Green Beans with Ginger & Turmeric

Heaps of flavour here, serve with anything!

Lentil Salad with Sherry Vinegar Dressing

Sunday afternoon laid-back salad. Yee-haw!

Warm Salad of Pan-fried Yellow Peppers & Peaches

Surely a peach is just a peach? Think again – hot pan, sizzling butter and frying peaches! Roll over Chicken Maryland.

Late Summer Ratatouille

Roll on lazy weekend … this is the perfect dish to go with bread and salad, a quiche or tart.

Peach & Chocolate Tart

Chocolate and peach, peach and chocolate … whichever way you say it, I want some!

Blood Peach Salad

Black boy peaches have succulent melting flesh and buckets of flavour.

Blood peaches (Blackboy peaches)

Short sharp season. Get them while you can.

Best-ever plum jam

What’s this little bundle of joy?
Read the 101 of jam making here and you’ll be away … tips galore!

Summer days drawing to an end

As it turns out, 18 lettuce seedlings in a 30cm x 30cm planter is actually quite excessive.

Potato Salad

Potato salad ready to go! Think picnic, barbecue or summer snacking.

Baked Eggplant & Peppers with Mozzarella

Not quite vegan, though still delicious without mozzarella, this makes a stunning centrepiece for a vegetarian meal.

Green Tomato & Avocado Salad

Pretty, sweet and sharp, green tomatoes make a perfect foil to the nutty taste and rich texture of avocados.

Pickled Beets

Sweet but tangy, just the right balance.

Yoghurt Dill Sauce

This little quickie sauce will add zing to the simplest fish dish. Oh, and it’s low in fat!

Gazpacho – A chill thrill!

Like a blast of cold air from a fan up your shirt or skirt on a sweltering day … Yup! Icy cold gazpacho is exhilarating!

Fennel seed and other such things

Letting some fennel plants go to seed, (accidentally or on purpose), will ensure you have fresh fennel seeds to use in dishes.

Grilled Pizza

These pizzas are sooooo good.

Sweet Corn Quiche

A quiche worth making