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Happy 100 posts and birthday louvi
Around this time last year my family was in Cyprus. It was warm and I swam and ate ice cream every day. I was looking through some photos of summer in the hopes that I could warm myself and found … Continue reading
Creamy sundried tomato pesto pasta with baby marrow
This is one of the quick dishes I made with the sundried tomato pesto. The pesto is so quick to make, I actually whipped it up while the spaghetti was boiling. Alternatively you can use ready-made pesto of any colour. … Continue reading
Marrow in tomato, bougouri and salad
This meal was made with ingredients from the farm. My mum threw it together for lunch. After mopping every last morsel and as I had the pleasure of doing almost every day, I lay down and read my novel, Sea … Continue reading
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Tagged baby marrow, bougouri, cypriot, garlic, lemon, tomato, vegan version, yoghurt
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Dhanya chutney
I have been gibbering it up in Cairo for the past week; stuffing my face part with food that is common all around this part of the world, and that shares many dishes with greek food as well (more on … Continue reading
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Tagged almond, chilli, chutney, dhanya, garlic, jeera, lemon, mustard oil, nuts, vegan, wheat free
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Asparagus, oyster mushroom and sesame seed salad
Did you know that the smell of asparagus wee is the closest to skunk smell? Also, only some people can smell it. Those of you who think the smell doesn’t affect you, actually just can’t smell it. I read this … Continue reading
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Tagged asparagus, chilli, lemon, oyster mushroom, sesame seeds, vegan version, wheat free
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Tomato, cucumber, avo and herb gazpacho
I have never made a gazpacho before. Essentially what it is, is a liquidized salad – which I always found somewhat off putting. But it was delicious and super quick and simple to make. Ingredients: 3 jam tomatoes half a cucumber 1 … Continue reading
Fresh pea, avo, haloumi and herb cous cous with lemon black bean dressing
The cous cous is finally finished! We threw this little salad together amidst last week’s baby madness. Ingredients: 1 cup wholewheat cous cous Bowl of freshly shelled peas 1 avo Rocket Parsley Haloumi Juice of half a lemon Sesame seeds … Continue reading
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Tagged avo, cous cous, haloumi, herbs, lemon, parsley, peas, rocket, sesame seeds, vegan version
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Lemon cordial
I learned how to make this lemon cordial in Hogsback from Ian and Pinty. My pics from Hogsback weren’t all that good so I recreated the recipe here. It is seriously refreshing and nowhere near as sweet as most of … Continue reading
Lemon and buttermilk cake
On Saturday I had an uncontrollable urge to bake. Not having much time, and taking inspiration from a bunch of different recipes, I wanted to make a cake that would be incredibly quick to make. We are still working through … Continue reading
Sunday Breakfast Juice
I have been a little absent as I have been surrogate mumming my 3 month old niece, so I have a nice backlog of gibberlicious things to post. I thought I would start with Sunday morning. We started the day … Continue reading
