If you’re looking for a comforting, fuss-free dinner that doesn’t overwhelm with spice, this Slow Cooker Potato and Chickpea Curry is just the thing. It’s full of flavour – gently spiced so even kids will love it – and wonderfully satisfying! I love making this on a Sunday and then eating it for lunch the…
Soups & Stews
Roast Butternut Soup with Beans {High-Protein}
This Roast Butternut Soup is an absolute dream — both to make and to slurp by the ladleful! Butternut, along with a few secret flavour boosters, is roasted in a generous drizzle of olive oil until golden, caramelized, and just slightly charred on the edges. Everything then gets blitzed together with a tin of protein-packed…
How to Make Easy Homemade Beef Broth with Meat Off-Cuts
Learn how to make easy homemade beef broth using meat off-cuts. This budget-friendly recipe is perfect for soups, stews, gravies, and more. Rich, flavorful, and simple to prepare—store it in your freezer for quick, delicious meals anytime. You don’t need heaps of meaty bones or meat to make a rich, flavorful homemade beef broth—I found…
Hearty Vegetable Soup with Beans
This Easy Vegetable Soup with Beans is a one-pot wonder and perfect for busy weeknights or lazy Sundays. It’s a budget-friendly, pantry-based recipe that transforms simple ingredients into a bowl of warmth and goodness. It’s also vegan-friendly!
Spicy Beef and Ginger Coconut Curry
A delicious beef curry you will make over and over again and a recipe that the whole family will thank you for making! The curry is just spicy enough to add flavour but not spicy enough to make you sweat!! It is slow cooked so all the ingredients meld together and create the most incredible deep flavour. Prep time is 30 minutes…
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.
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…
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…
Tom Kha Gai Soup
Happy New Year beautiful people! Let’s get the year started with a fresh and zesty Tom Kha Gai Soup! Tom Kha Gai soup is an absolute treat! It’s healthy and versatile enough to be turned into a vegetarian dish if needed and the wonderful thing about this soup, is that is is a meal in…
