An easy fish recipe the whole family will enjoy. Hake fillets are sprinkled with black pepper and finely chopped onion, and then coated with a creamy lemon butter sauce infused with garlic and then baked in the oven for a modest 10-12 minutes. The resulting Hake fillets are tender and juicy, with the simple creamy…
Sauces & Side Dishes
Edamame Salad with Parmesan and Creamy Herb Dressing
A delightfully fresh green salad with Edamame Beans, Snap Peas, Parmesan and lots of creamy green herb dressing. This simple green salad is the perfect side dish for a barbeque or braai. The creamy green dressing is healthy and delicious but if you don’t have time or energy to make the dressing then you can…
Creamy Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream and Dill
An easy, tasty and refreshing cucumber salad mixed with a tangy sour cream and dill dressing. Whip this creamy cucumber salad together at the last minute. It is perfect for summer days and laid back barbeques or braais. Cucumbers are great on their own, we know that. We can eat them like peanuts! But, cucumber…
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…
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…
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…
Warm Butternut and Beetroot Salad with Balsamic Reduction
A tasty side to a meat dish or a healthy vegan meal, this Warm Butternut and Beetroot Salad with Balsamic Reduction is hearty and wholesome. Slow roasted vegetables with microgreens, toasted pecan nuts and a dash of Balsamic Vinegar is the ultimate simple meal for the soul. Especially with the slightly browned part of the…
Vegan Coleslaw
You’re probably thinking how on earth do you make a Vegan coleslaw? No Mayonnaise? I thought the exact same thing but let me tell you, this coleslaw is simply delicious. Instead of mayonnaise, we use a creamy cashew nut dressing with all sorts of sweet and tangy ingredients. Eating coleslaw has never been more exciting!!…
Hummus and Chickpea Salad Dip
This delicious platter of hummus and chickpeas, loaded with salad, is one of my favourite dishes for entertaining – and it’s perfect for vegans too! Firstly, it looks so pretty and secondly it’s completely and utterly moreish. It feeds 4-6 adults as a starter / appetiser and I highly recommend it for your next book…
How to Make Perfect Hummus from Scratch
Ever wondered how to make Hummus? That healthy dip/paste made from chickpeas that you dip carrot and celery sticks into? Yes, that stuff? It is called Hummus. Some say, “Hugh-miss”, whilst others say “hum-miss” and some say “hom-miss”. However you say it, it is YUMMY and wholesome and it’s easy to make from scratch –…
Beetroot Salad with Honey & Mustard Dressing
Beetroot. Gross, right? I know, that is totally what I used to think too. And then I actually tasted beetroot, beetroot that was slow roasted with butternut together with creamy feta cheese and OMG. I completely converted on the spot. Soon after my beetroot conversion, I discovered this power salad at my son’s school –…
Bacon & Broccoli Salad (Yum!!)
Let’s talk about this salad. We first met in a home industry shop. Unlikely place to meet the salad of your dreams, I know. And funnily enough it was just sitting out on the counter as though it were a piece of cake or something. It looked healthy and I was SO hungry and I…
