Sauces + dressings
Raw Zucchini Noodles with Alfredo Sauce
The simplicity of this dish suits the relaxed nature of picking your summer vegetables from the garden and throwing together something easy for lunch or dinner. Just be sure to soak your cashews in the morning (if you forget pour boiling water over them and sit for ten mins). Adjust the combo of vegetables to […]
Fragrant chick pea, potato and cucumber salad
Combining the tastes of buttery chick peas with toasted seeds creates an interesting spectrum of flavour. Whether you use cumin, caraway, fennel or all three seeds combined doesn’t really matter. It will bring your salad alive. New potatoes, thick sliced Cucumber, chunks Red onion, sliced Several gherkins, optional Fresh herbs Salad greens 1 can chickpeas, […]
Two ways with quinoa
This should read 202 ways with quinoa (pronounced keen-wa) such is the versatility of this seed. Seed?? Yes! It’s commonly referred to as a grain but is technically a seed – which is great if you’re looking for a non-grain grain. Use it instead of rice, eat it hot or cold, sprout it, you can […]
Walnut sauce – it goes on everything!
Walnut sauce is a game changer. It literally added a whole new repertoire to my weekday-fly-in-the-door meals. Simplicity rules here. Sauce plus steamed veges. This is no time to be shy. If you secretly love Brussel sprouts steam up a bunch and lather in this walnutty wonder. New potatoes, greens, broccoli … your underneath carrier […]
Does vegan cheese sauce without cheese really work?
Beautifully. And without getting lumpy (or making you lumpy) to boot! This vegan cheese sauce is a superb way to get more veggies into kids – particularly the not-so-popular leek and cauliflower variety. Serve with broccoli or over pasta, a baked potato, beans and rice … think mac n’ cheese! It’s adapted from the Forks […]