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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. Ingredients New potatoes, thick slicedCucumber, chunksRed onion, slicedSeveral gherkins, optionalFresh herbsSalad greens 1 can chickpeas, drained & rinsed1 tsp […]

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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 […]

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Late Summer Quinoa Salad

I love the blend of fresh and baked vegetables combined with spices and fresh herbs. Steam baking the root veges keeps the health-o-meter way up high and who’s missing the oil when it tastes this good! Serve either warm or cold.   1 cup of quinoa, rinsed (I use red coz it’s pretty) 2 cups […]

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