An easy, flavourful, French Onion soup recipe made with just a handful of ingredients. Hearty and wholesome, this classic French Onion Soup recipe takes approximately 1 hour 10 minutes to cook and 10 minutes or less to prepare. It’s worth all the time and more, I promise. I feel like I have tasted all the soups…
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Easy Beef Stew with Carrots and Potatoes [Video]
An ultra simple, easy to make beef stew with carrots and potatoes that the whole family will love. With a very basic ingredient list, this beef stew is still full of flavor and will have you going back for seconds. Use beef chuck for best results. Watch the video to learn more. This easy beef…
Tomato Beef Casserole
A tasty tomato beef casserole rich in flavour and comforting on cold days. This recipe is easy to follow and takes about 2 hours to cook in the oven, where the meat goes tender and the flavours develop. Yum! This tomato beef casserole is one of those simple dishes that is so rich in flavour that it beckons silence after each…
17 Super Easy Soup Recipes
Here you go, 17 easy soup recipes to inspire you on cold or rainy days. Soups, as you may know, is my all-time favourite kind of food and hence the reason I have so many soup recipes on this website. Enjoy them as simple yet wholesome family dinners, especially when you feel like everyone needs…
Easy Lentil Soup (Best Ever!)
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 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…
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…
Easy Egg-Fried Rice
What on earth to make for dinner? There is nothing in the fridge or freezer and dinner is looking like spaghetti on toast. Or Bovril. Or maybe just butter. Until you read this easy egg-fried rice recipe and you start doing a little shimmy shake with your shoulders. And the reason you’re shimmy shaking is…
Cream of Chicken Soup
A dinner with basic pantry ingredients, this cream of chicken soup recipe really is soup for the soul! My kids love the simplicity of it and I love the fact that it comes together in 20 minutes. And I generally just love soup and the reason I have a whole section dedicated to it. The real secret of this recipe though, is…
Easy Dal Makhani
Easy and delicious vegan eating right here! A simple bowl of Dal Makhani, loaded with Coriander! Spicy and tomatoey, it really is a delight for the taste buds and its nutritious too. The recipe is easy and adaptable – add more spice if you like things on the hot side or tone it down if…














