Comfort food at its best. When life calls for noodles, this is the recipe you need! This makes a huge serving for one, plenty for two or nibbles for three. ♥ Awesome Vegan Chow Mein with Veges & Tofu Ingredients: 3 tbsp rice bran oil (or canola, sunflower etc) 1/2 brown onion, sliced 1 clove…
Category: lunch / dinner
Summer Salad with Maple-Soy Lemon Dressing
Tis the season for salads spiked with summer fruit.
Game Changing Sweet Chilli-Soy Vegetable Stir Fry (Vegan!)
Via Pinterest ♥ I love stir fries – they are so quick, easy and awesome – but was getting a little bored of my standard issue sauce, which is tasty but was lacking some kind of stir fry X factor. This was an experiment that became one of those ‘hallelujah’ recipes! Double the sauce recipe, divide it…
Pita Pizzas with Easy Peasy Pizza Sauce and Basic Basil Pesto (Vegan!)
1) Easy 2) Fast 3) Versatile 4) Delicious Hell yes. These quick pita pizzas have been a staple in our house for a long time. Pitas make great lil pizza bases. Our friend hummus is used here as a pre-base sauce, helping to keep them nice and moist. The yummy, thick base sauce…
Kidney Bean & Chickpea Salad with Spiced Citrus Dressing
Marion Cotillard (photog. Mario Testino) / via my Pinterest I feel like legumes deserve an apology from me. For so long the dodgy, mass produced versions of legume salads that lurk in the corners of supermarket delis, constituted the sum total of my legume-salading experience and it put me off big time. I…
Revolutionary Vegan Stir Fry with Udon Noodles (+ Amazing New Stir Fry Sauce!)
Stir fry tiiiime. A friend who stayed with us recently called this the best stir fry he’s ever had. Victory! Maybe he was just being super polite, but I dare say that this is, by leaps and bounds, the best stir fry recipe I have rustled up so far. Try it and let me…
Flash Gordon Chilli
One hazy afternoon recently I was in the kitchen, pantry-staring, feeling tired and wondering what the easiest route to something hot and hearty was going to be. This recipe is the result. No chopping necessary! It’s as easy as throwing three things into a saucepan: tomatoes, beans and spices. Then basically all you have to…
The People’s Tofu
I’ve found that the easiest way to make tofu amazing is to marinade it overnight, regardless of what any given recipe may call for. This allows the marinade juices to really soak in and infuse the tofu with an eye-popping, skeptic-converting amount of flavour. For so long I didn’t take advantage of tofu, until an…
Curried Udon Soup with Broccoli & Mushrooms
This right here is my favourite comfort food at the moment. A hearty, satisfying udon soup that has warmed my belly on many a cold afternoon. The broccoli, mushrooms and chunky noodles absorb the curry broth in a most delicious way, and it has a ginger kick that is guaranteed to make you…
Midweek Meltdown Roasted Pumpkin & Chickpea Salad
Image via We Heart It Oh hell yes. File this one under “salads that make you go mmm”. This recipe features some of my current favourite foodthings: chickpeas, roasted pumpkin and toasted pumpkin seeds. They come together to create a substantial salad that will fill you right up and get you charging towards the…
Scrambled Tofu
Image © Kitchen Rebellion Whether you need breakfast, brunch or lunch, this tasty, quick to prepare, tofu scramble has got you covered! It is an especially great option when you want something jam-packed with protein. One serving and you have 40% of your RDI locked down. BOOM. Scrambled tofu is a vegan staple that…
Maxin’ Relaxin’ Almost Instant Noodles
Green Coat by Doug Wheller, via Flickr Sometimes something simple is the order of the day – a dish that is light, tasty and ready to eat with a bare minimum of fuss. These yummy noodles fit the bill perfectly. They are ready to eat in fifteen fast minutes and are flavoured with a deliciously…
