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…
Soups & Stews
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…
Best Ever Hungarian Goulash with Sour Cream
Hungarian Goulash. Oh my. Why did it take me so long to make this? It is so easy, so tasty, so simple. Lately I have been challenging myself to make at least one new recipe every week or at least to repeat a non-traditional dish that we have enjoyed in the past. The idea of…
Tom’s Famous Soup
In my house, we call this soup “Tom’s Famous Soup” – the tastiest vegetable soup. It’s famous because, Thomas, our 10-year old son, created this recipe from scratch one afternoon and we all loved it so much that he made it again, and again and…. Any moms dream, right?! And the name just developed, like,…
