Breakfast Mushrooms with Herbs

Breakfast Mushrooms with Herbs

Top a piece of grainy sourdough (or gluten free) toast with these breakfast mushrooms with herbs, add some goats cheese and voila, you’ve got a healthy breakfast option that will satisfy all your nutritional needs, including taste. Apologies, but getting a mouth watering photo of mushrooms on a plate is ..Continue Reading

Homemade Healthy Nut and Seed Granola

Homemade Healthy Nut and Seed Granola

Making a homemade healthy nut and seed granola is easy and is the one thing you should have in your pantry for a healthy addition to so many dishes. Over the last 20 years or so, I’ve steered away from commercial breakfast cereals.  And, I can honestly say I haven’t ..Continue Reading

Oat and Cinnamon Pancakes

Oat and Cinnamon Pancakes

Oat and cinnamon pancakes – the perfect combination of all that oaty goodness with blood sugar balancing cinnamon.  They’re so warming, sweet and nourishing.  This recipe will become your favourite! I’ve been working on combining oats and cinnamon in a pancake recipe for a little while.  Because I wanted to ..Continue Reading

Easy and Delicious Fruit Compote

Easy and Delicious Fruit Compote

I used to think that fruit compote sounded so old fashioned.  But there’s a reason that a dish like this has stood the test of time. It’s yummy, delicious, with a hint of sweetness and so, so versatile. It comes under the heading of “comfort food” while still providing your ..Continue Reading

Asparagus and Tarragon Tart

Asparagus and Tarragon Tart

It’s spring in Australia! One of the best things about spring is that asparagus is in season.  It’s well priced at the markets at the moment, so don’t forget to put asparagus in your basket. Asparagus is a perennial veggie with a heap of delicious uses, from tasty tarts to ..Continue Reading

7 Delicious Ways to Use Roasted Tomatoes – Cook up a batch now

7 Delicious Ways to Use Roasted Tomatoes – Cook up a batch now

Tomato is perhaps my absolute favourite vegetable of all time (ok, I know it’s a fruit), but we often think of it as a vegetable.  It’s savoury and sweet at the same time and goes with just about everything. My earliest memory of tomatoes is when mum would mix them ..Continue Reading

Breakfast Herbed Beans and Vegetables

Breakfast Herbed Beans and Vegetables

Vegetables for breakfast – that’s not breakfast food, I hear you shout. But, hear me out. In many cultures, savory vegetables are a staple breakfast dish and when paired with good quality protein and fibre, you’ll have all you need for energy, clear thinking and healthy moods for a productive ..Continue Reading

Fettuccine with Sun-dried Tomatoes and Sunflower Seeds

Fettuccine with Sun-dried Tomatoes and Sunflower Seeds

Like most, we love a good pasta on a cold winter’s night. This recipe blends all the goodness of the sun foods – sun-dried tomatoes and sun-flower seeds – with the richness of mediterrranean flavours. If you’re not a fan of chilli, you can leave it out completely, or cut ..Continue Reading

Healthy yoghurt breakfast

Healthy yoghurt breakfast

Yoghurt, fruit, nuts, seeds and coconut.  We have this breakfast every second morning. We think it’s the best healthy and easy yoghurt combination around.  Although, we might be biased 🙂 I remember what it was like when the kids were growing up and I was leaving the house for work ..Continue Reading

Veggie Moussaka

Veggie Moussaka

This dish was inspired by memories Jeff has from back in the early 80’s when he shared a group house with a couple of other blokes. Back in the days of motor bikes and beer. What’s most surprising is that even back then, they enjoyed the occasional vegetarian meal, or ..Continue Reading