Feeding my hungry husband, one meal at a time.
Ingredients: 2 punnets of figs (approx. 250g) 1/3 cup sugar 1 Tb lemon juice 2 Tb water star anise/cardamom Method: Wash your figs, then chop them up. Blend figs (if you want a smooth jam) with water, lemon juice. Then add to a pot with…
Inspired by my favourite cookies from Woolworths, I love that you can just throw anything that you have into this mixture, making it a different cookie every time. It’s great if you want to use up small bits of leftover things like cranberries, coconut, seeds,…
Every year, we host my family for Eid Breakfast. It is a new tradition that we started when Kashif and I got married and we really enjoy having people over and entertaining. The main aim of our breakfasts are to make new dishes and surprise…
This fragrant rice is the ultimate accompaniment to prawn curry, crayfish curry, roast leg of lamb and Saffron & Yoghurt Kebab. I love that it is studded with a variety of textures and flavours and its so colourful! This “side” dish will brighten up any…
I recently shared this recipe on a segment of Ramadan Whisk with Radio 786. If you would like to listen, click play here: INGREDIENTS: 1 x roll puff pastry (I use Today Puff) 2 Apples Cinnamon for sprinkling Brown sugar Lemon Juice Egg or…
It’s fig season and what better way to eat this incredibly pretty fruit (other than Fig Toast) than in an Apple Crumble! Stay with me here, as the fig bakes it cooks down and becomes juicy making the most delicious pink syrupy sauce that goes…
This is a really quick post to share a pro-tip with you! Make a big batch of waffles and store them in a ziplock bag in the freezer. When you want to have one, pop it in the toaster to defrost and crisp it up…
Hey everyone! I know it’s getting colder here in the Southern Hemisphere and we don’t really want to be eating salad, but this one has all of my favourite things. It goes really well with roasts, or take it for lunch with two soft boiled…
This is my version of the popular Green Goddess Dressing doing the rounds. It goes really well with this Gorgeously Green Salad. GREEN GODDESS DRESSING Ingredients: 1 small avocado 1 Tb of double cream yoghurt 1/2 garlic clove handful of coriander juice of 1/2 lemon…
Today is the 23rd of April and with just two weeks to go for Ramadan 2019, I thought I would share Volume 3 of my favourite Ramadan Recipes. You can print them out, keep them in a file or on your phone etc. ; whatever…