Before you ask, no, I don’t know why I waited until my kitchen was 86F plus before deciding to tool around with making tigernut butter cups. But wait, I did, which is why I found myself tinkering around with these this week in a kitchen without air conditioning, because of course that’s when the idea […]
Eggless Chicken & Avocado Caesar Salad
It does seem, if you spend any time around food on social media at all, that there are pretty much two options in life when it comes to jazzing up simple recipes: #putaneggonit or adding avocado. And while I do hate to jump on a silly trend – you won’t find me making mermaid toast […]
Spicy Orange Shrimp Tacos with Fennel Slaw & Avocado Cream
Shrimp, tortillas, fennel and avocado… I grew up eating precisely none of these things. It’s amazing how one dish can be a visual marker of change; of evolving tastes and aversions overcome. My overriding memory of prawns was the 80s culinary blast from the past that would not be destroyed… the prawn cocktail. Swimming in […]
Classic Eggless Caesar Salad
I once dated a someone who, without fail and regardless of the restaurant we went to, would order Caesar Salad as an appetizer, if at all possible. Back then, I didn’t get the appeal of Caesar Salad. At all. Firstly, I was borderline mayo-phobic and secondly, I associated lettuce with starvation and sadness. So you […]
Foolproof Grain Free Tortillas
This recipe for foolproof grain free tortillas is brought to you by my deeply ingrained perfectionist tendencies. There are plenty of recipes out there for cassava flour tortillas, but I wanted to base my first foray into grain free flour territory on a simple, traditional recipe. You wouldn’t think that a recipe as simple as […]
Roasted Carrots with Green Olive Dressing
So I have this silly thing about the recipes I share here being “blog worthy”. Whatever the hell that means. In some ways it makes its own odd kind of sense: I don’t want to be yet another blogger in a sea of bloggers telling you all about how my roast broccoli is somehow life changing. […]