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Category Archives: Side Dishes & Salads

Moroccan Rice Salad

Balanced and nutritious, this salad can stand alone as a tasty light meal. It’s the perfect way to use upleftover rice. I find it impossible to cook the correct amount … Continue reading

October 14, 2012 · 5 Comments

Parmesan Oil

This is the beginning of another occasional series on Please Pass The Recipe. “Waste Not Want Not” will highlight money saving, ingredient stretching and flavour enhancing ideas in the kitchen … Continue reading

October 12, 2012 · 4 Comments

HUMMUS

I have never ever tasted a commercial hummus which matches a homemade dip for flavour and texture. Some are bland, some leave you with flatulence, some are “tinny”, while a … Continue reading

July 19, 2012 · 5 Comments

ROASTED BEETROOT DIP

When I was a kid a summer salad was not complete without a couple of slices of vinegary preserved beetroot, usually out of a can, bleeding into all the carefully … Continue reading

July 10, 2012 · 4 Comments

CHEESEY CAULIFLOWER SOUP

As a child I loathed cauliflower, Brussels sprouts too. Unfortunately, natural compounds in both develop bitterness when over cooked and my Mum was of the old school that boiled all … Continue reading

July 3, 2012 · 7 Comments

EGGPLANT DIP

We eat lots of dip. With a retiree in the house my winter lunchtime fallback position is a bowl of soup with bread or crackers. I find it easy to … Continue reading

June 26, 2012 · 1 Comment