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Favourite Recipes

Find my current favourite recipes here and add them to your weekly staples. If you do not find what you are looking for here, head to my recipe index and search for your favourite recipe.

Summer Salads

From vibrant vegetable salads and hearty grain bowls to creamy pasta salads and refreshing fruit combinations, there is a salad for every craving. Start with a simple base and make it your own with seasonal ingredients, favourite toppings, and delicious dressings. Perfect for packing into a picnic basket, taking on a hike, bringing to the beach, or enjoying all summer long.

On a pink plate, a close up of a basic pasta salad

Pasta salad

In a large blue bowl, creamy salmon pasta salad is mixed, visible are fusili pasta, spinach, cucumber, tomatoes cut in half and spring onions.

Creamy salmon pasta salad

In a brown paper box, with a green plastic fork sticking out of it, a couscous salad with pickled vegetables, pieces of beetroot, yellow pepper and red pepper visible.

Pickled vegetable salad

On a white background a weaved basket tray, a blue flower patterned cloth napkin, a light blue flower shaped small bowl with falafel-ish dressing and a blue bowl with roasted chickpea salad.

Roasted chickpea salad

Hummus variations

Hummus is my favourite spread and there are so many variations to this easy to make, protein filled dip. Start with my basic recipe then add the flavour you want.

A beige tablecloth covering the lower part of the photo, then on a silver metal background from the left, a lemon cut in half, a handful of chickpeas and a bowl of hummus

Quick and easy hummus

Sweet potato hummus

On a silver background, a bowl of sun-dried tomatoes hummus with extra sun-dried tomatoes chopped up on top.

Sun-dried tomato hummus

On a beige table cloth background, a folded light blue cloth napkin, a porcelain bowl with a nori sheet and a large portion of hummus wasabi

Wasabi hummus

On a green textured background, with a linen table cloth in the left hand corners, a blue plate in the middle with spicy hummus smeared on the plate, topped with a few sliced chilipeppers

Spicy hummus

On a wooden cutting board, a photo taken from above, a blue plate with black bean hummus in the middle, to the right hand side a handful of tortilla chips.

Black bean hummus

On a silver coloured table, a glass bowl with pink beet hummus, two whole wheat crackers on the side. In the foreground a wheat cracker with a dollop of pink beet hummus

Beetroot hummus

On a background of beige tablecloth, the ingredients to make hummus, clockwise from the top, a glass bowl of olive oil, a bowl of tahini, a lemon cut in half, two cloves of garlic, a glass bowl of cooked chickpeas and a spoonful of cumin.

Hummus

Homemade barbecue sauce

I have a delicious homemade barbecue sauce that I add to minced meat to make variations of a lot of everyday recipes. These are some of my favourites.

On a white background, a wooden cutting board, in the left hand lower corner a blue patterned cloth napkin. In the middle of the photo, a black, matte plate with a stash of meatballs, and a porcelain spoon with barbecue sauce.

Barbecue meatballs

On a textured background with a blue flower patterned table cloth on the left side, in the middle a black matte plate, with two slices of barbecue meatloaf, a handful of green leaves and a smaller pink bowl with barbecue sauce.

Barbecue meatloaf

On a silver coloured table, a cloth napkin with a green leaf pattern, and a black plate with a barbecue hamburger on a brioche bun, with bacon, cheese and lettuce visible, next to a small white bowl with barbecue sauce.

Barbecue hamburger

On a wooden cutting board, a black, matte plate with a hamburger bun filled with shredded barbecue tofu and a few lettuce leaves. In the right hand lower corner, a cloth napkin with a leaf print.

Shredded tofu barbecue

Pancake & waffle delight

Pancakes and waffles are some of the easiest and most versatile dishes you can make. Top them with fresh fruit, berries, syrup, or cream for a delicious sweet treat, or go savoury with eggs, cheese, vegetables, or crispy bacon for a hearty and complete meal. The possibilities are endless, making pancakes and waffles recipes you will return to again and again.

On a textured background a black matte plate, two pancakes and five slices of apple drizzled with honey.

Peanut butter and apple pancakes

On a pink textured background, a table cloth with flowers, a black matte plate a stack of apple cinnamon pancake with slices of red apples on top, to the side a knife and fork.

Cinnamon and apple pancakes

Two banana waffles layered on a dark grey plate, topped with banana and apple slices, drizzled with honey.

Banana waffles

Waffles cut in segments to resemble hearts, topped with a fresh spinach leaf, smoked salmon, diced red onions and yellow peppers, and a dollop of creamy wasabi dressing

Savoury waffles

My favourite no waste cooking recipes

It is important for me to not waste any food and these recipes are great to make, using leftovers or vegetables that have seen their best. See more inspiration on my No Waste Cooking pinterest board.

Cooked stir fry in a bowl, next to a ceramic spoon laying on top of a green table cloth

Everything stirfry

Everything omelet plated on a black plate on top of a green cloth, the omelet is folded in quarters and sprinkled with feta cheese. There is also a green salad with some tomatoes on the same plate.

Everything omelet

Tuna bake plated on a black plate, topped with cut green onions and a spoonful of tuna bake on a white spoon

Creamy tuna bake

Photo taken slightly form above. A wooden cutting board, with a folded flowery cloth napkin, three jars of pickled vegetables; one with sliced radishes, one with carrot sticks and one with sliced red onions.

Easy pickled vegetables

Winter Warmers

When it is getting colder and darker in the evenings, these are some of the recipes I reach for. Comfort in a bowl.

A braided basket with a green cloth, on top there is a blue bowl with black bean soup topped with nachos, corn, a wedge of lime, a dollop of creme fraiche and some green onions

Black bean soup

On a wooden cutting board a blue striped cloth napkin to the left of the picture with a porcelain spoon on top, a blue patterned soup bowl with mushroom soup, topped with shredded Parmesan cheese.

Creamy mushroom soup

Finished Ramen laddled in to a blue bowl on a white table cloth. Ramen is topped with half a cooked egg, sliced carrots, red bell peppers and mushroom, also edamame beans and drizzled with red Shiraza.

Easy ramen

Sweet potato curry cooking in a large sauteuse, with sweet potatoes, red and yellow peppers, green broccoli in a red curry sauce

Sweet potato curry

Recipes to keep on repeat

Some of my all time favourite recipes that I always keep nearby for a quick dinner or the ultimate comfort food.

Finished Moroccan meatballs plated in a blue bowl on top of couscous and next to sliced red and yellow bell peppers.

Moroccan meatballs

On a beige textured background,a white cloth napkin, a green bowl with spaghetti bolognese, topped with fresh basil

Bolognese

Classic Mac n Cheese placed on a blue plate and sprinkled with some green onions. The plate is placed on a green table cloth.

Mac and cheese

Hot honey chicken

Christmas Favourites

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….And my Christmas sweets recipes are the best.

Puff pastry apple cups straight from the oven, plated on a black plate and dusted with powdered sugar. In the background, a red apple, a red cup with coffee, a pink gingham cloth and a wooden cutting board

Puff pastry apple cups

A close up of, a white background, a wooden cutting board and to the left part of a blue flower patterned cloth napkin. To the right, part of a circular cake tin with a cinnamon cake, three slices have been made in the cake and are turned to see the inside of the cake.

Cinnamon cake

Three saffron candied orange slices are laid out on a blue plate with a decorative star anise. In the background is a red striped Christmas bauble and a red gingham cloth.

Saffron candied oranges

In wicker basket with a striped Christmas bauble, a golden star, a black plate with saffron pancakes piled up with the top one folded in fours.

Saffron pancakes

Veganuary

Planning to eat less meat this year? Try these veganuary recipes and bring them with you through January to the rest of the year. Tasty, healthy and totally plant based.

A close up of a blue bowl with rice topped with shredded teriyaki tofu, broccoli and a sprinkling of sesame seeds.

Teriyaki tofu bowl

A wooden cutting board on top of a green textured background, in the lower left corner a pink cloth napkin with a ceramic spoon on top. In the middle a blue bowl with rice, peanut butter chickpea curry and a sprinkling of green onions.

Chickpea peanut butter curry

In a brown paper box, with a green plastic fork sticking out of it, a couscous salad with pickled vegetables, pieces of beetroot, yellow pepper and red pepper visible.

Couscous salad with pickled vegetables

On a wooden cutting board, a green cloth napkin in the right corner, in the middle a larger blue bowl with noodles, shredded teriyaki tofu, topped with spicy cucumber salad and black sesame seeds. Further to the left, a smaller bowl with spicy cucumber salad. Below this bowl, a pair of black chopsticks.

Ramen with teriyaki tofu