good mornin’ – avocado and home-made ricotta on pita bread

Yes, another avocado on some form of toast recipe, but you can make this one a bit special by making your own ricotta and/or pita bread. Serves 4 3-4 avocados 1-2 cloves garlic. Microplaned or very finely grated. about 250 g ricotta (scroll down for recipe) 4 pita breads (scroll down for recipe) smoked paprika…

in the beantime

This week we’ve really been getting in to pulse salads with a protein. Putting herbs and preserved citrus in the salad and coating with a lemon, vinegar and garlic dressing brings the salad to life. These are quick to prepare, have little dishes, and leftovers are good for a work lunch the next day –…

take a walk on the egg side – flip last night’s dinner into a tasty brekkie

Eggs are great to flip last night’s dinner into a tasty breakfast. We do this quite often – salsa and guacamole with poached eggs (also Poached eggs, guacamole, quick pickled cabbage) from the previous night’s tacos, poached eggs with tomato sauce from the pizza we had enjoyed, eggs with tabouli or barley salad from that fish…

rhubarb + yoghurt: rhubarb, yoghurt, ricotta and polenta cake

It is the time of year when we have Giant rhubarb coming out of our ears! It is my fault – I planted 6 from seed and am too proud to part with any – unless it is to dig up to give as a gift. I felt like baking, and I thought that rhubarb…

easy like sunday morning – cinnamon and star anise infused steel cut oats

I can’t get enough of making different versions of steel cut oats with different spice and flavour combos (and then converting them to chia bowls – currently working on a more Asian inspired chia bowl that was inspired by these oats). It is summer here at the moment, but this one will be a good…

the (cured) salmon dance – gravadlax

Cass and I have worked quantities out for 300g (as 2 x 150 g fillets) of fish. This works well as you can cure quickly. Most recipes will give quantities for 1-2 kg which will take 24-48 hours with turning of the fillet involved. The pictured serving idea is grilled sourdough (rye would also be…

chia girl #2 – orange infused cinnamon and date chia bowl

I wanted to try infusing the chia with orange peel as this works so well with steel cut oats. I did 2 versions, one with just the dates and orange peel and one with orange peel, cinnamon and dates. I thought the latter may have too much going on, but the cinnamon bought out the…

chia girl – cinnamon and date chia bowl

This a great alternative to oats in the morning, especially in summer as it is eaten cold. Mix it up with your favourite fruits and nuts – I have included some options. Toasted shredded coconut is great on top too, as is granola (click for a Co-op recipe) for something a little more decadent. I…

granol-la. tahini & coconut and salted peanut granola

This is Cass’ granola. It was made to go with a chia bowl that I am currently working out to serve 4 – will be up on the blog soon. But the granola is tasty on top of other things like natural yoghurt and oats. This was just asking to be titled after Lola –…

good mornin’ #2 – orange infused steel cut oats topped with peaches, pistachio nuts and honey

Even if you didn’t gorge, after Christmas, breakfasts like these are very welcome to get back into routine. You don’t have to, but preparing 24 hours before saves a little extra cooking time and takes the chewiness out of the oats. You want to infuse the orange peel for at least 4-5 hours so bare…

nectarine and yoghurt – nectarine, yoghurt, ricotta and polenta cake

The polenta and ricotta are a nice base to steer this away from being a traditional tea cake. Despite the sugar syrup, it is not sickly sweet. It is gluten free, provided your polenta packet doesn’t have any warning signs about being packaged with possible traces of gluten. This title needs explaining! It’s taken from Peaches…

green machine – avocado and fetta with paprika and lemon on toast

This is a fresh, tasty dish and easy to put together which works great on a Sunday morning – because who can be bothered doing dishes on a Sunday!? There are a lot different ways to do avocado on toast. This is just one them that Cass and I do at home. It is similar to…