This is an easy to use step-by-step recipe (with photos) for making homemade yoghurt without a yoghurt maker. It is quick to make and tastes delicious. You need a digital thermometer or candy thermometer and a heavy-bottomed pot with lid, milk and half a cup of store-bought yoghurt as your starter culture. It was during…
Easy Lentil Soup
This is a deliciously easy Lentil soup suitable for vegans. It comes together in 45 minutes or less and is packed with wholesome flavours and contains mainly pantry ingredients, hooray! It contains fibre, protein and an array of vitamins which makes this a healthy meal to make over and over again. The recipe will easily serve 4 people.
Easy Tuna Pasta Salad
An easy Tuna Pasta Salad made with medium shell noodles, peas, corn, celery, mayonnaise and creamy Greek yoghurt. It is a side dish or main meal that the whole family can enjoy! This tuna salad is absolutely scrumptious! It has the vital combination of flavours, colours and textures. I love how in every bite you get a little…
Easy Homemade Corn Dogs Recipe (step-by-step)
This homemade corn dog recipe comes with a simple list of ingredients and easy to follow step-by-step instructions with photos. The corn dogs are delicious – my boys regularly beg me to make them and I always find myself commenting how surprisingly easy they are to make! In this recipe I will show you what…
Cycling the Camino de Santiago with 3 kids (from St Jean Pied de Port)
In June and July 2022, my husband and I cycled the Camino Frances with our then 7, 10 and 11 year old boys. We cycled a total of 890km in 28 days. Most people walk this route in 30-35 days. This blog post is broken into 2 parts – the first part is more of…
Easy Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe (with Ice Cream Maker)
The best recipe for homemade vanilla ice-cream, ever! This recipe has no eggs and is made with an ice-cream maker. The ice-cream is super creamy and tasty and comes together very easily with just 5 basic ingredients. I am a mother of 3 boys and every month we have a full moon ice-cream tradition. I…
Chickpea Salad with Peanut Ginger Dressing
This is an easy-to-assemble salad with a rainbow of vegetables, perfect for lunch, dinner or in-between snacking. It is suitable for vegans and is also packed with fibre and plant protein. The variety of colors means that you will also be getting a variety of nutrients! The peanut ginger dressing gives it a flavorsome Thai…
Gratitude Stew – Best Vegetarian Stew Ever!
I named this vegetarian dish “Gratitude Stew” because I found myself silently narrating the words “Oh Thank youuuuu GOD” after each and every bite hah hah! Every mouthful was just so ridiculously flavoursome that I ate every bite ever so slowly just to savour it even more! Rich and tomatoey with pleasant kicks of curry…
Melt-in-Your-Mouth Beef Potjie Recipe
Finally, the best beef potjie recipe is up on the blog! This recipe has been tried, tested and edited a number of times and I am thrilled to be able to share it with you. Probably the best indicator of its success, is that despite the vegetables, my kids LOVE this potjie. I used a…
Tasty Tuscan Chicken
A deliciously creamy, tomato-y sauce with chicken and fresh baby spinach, this Tasty Tuscan Chicken recipe is sure to be a weeknight favourite! I have made it with and without the mushrooms and maybe I am a little biased but it tastes way better with mushrooms, #justsaying. My family loved this recipe except for the…
Creamy Parmesan Chicken Bake
A tasty chicken recipe that is kid-friendly! What makes it kid-friendly? There are just a handful of ingredients, so it is super simple! And kids love simple food with no fancy ingredients, generally speaking right?! I created this chicken recipe after a hiking trip. One of our hiking meals was a creamy parmesan chicken “dish”…
Bianca’s Broccoli Salad
This exceptionally simple yet moreish Broccoli Salad is the yummiest thing I have tasted this year! It has the perfect combination of flavours and textures and the dressing, the dressing! Don’t get me started on the dressing! You just have to try it for yourself. It is lunch, it is dinner, it is a side…
