Tag: salad
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Quinoa Salad
With the weather in Melbourne still sweltering, salads are featuring frequently on our menu. One way to create variety with limited ingredients is to vary the grains used. The same vegetables, legumes, eggs ( if tolerated) with either rice, pasta, noodles, cous cous, quinoa, etc. creates a new salad. This week its a quinoa salad… Read more
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Cous Cous and Roasted Vegetable Salad with Buttermilk Chicken
This is my current favourite salad, it’s great for those milder summer and autumn days and is very quick and easy to make. Even easier if you have left over roast vegetables. Buttermilk marinades are very versatile and can be used on most meats. I’ve only tried it on chicken so far, but intend to… Read more
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Australia Day Green and Gold Bean Salad and Pear Slushies (kids and adult’s version)
Last week we had a fridge full of fresh beans (from our garden and my parents garden) so I decided to make my Green Bean Salad. This is one of my favourite salads and favourite ways to eat beans. It is also very easy and quick to make. We had both butter beans and green… Read more
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Salads for Summer and Christmas
I’ve already listed a few salads for Christmas in my Christmas Menu post; but with the sudden appearance of the warm weather I have been experimenting with a few more that I thought I would share. The inspiration for this post came from the Orgran Vegetable Spiral Pasta that I recently tried on Oscar. He initially… Read more
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BBQ Whole Chicken and Potato, Egg and Bacon Salad
It’s been an interesting week food wise. On Sunday I went to a Thermomix party. I met R, the hostess, through Freecycle where I had used my Oscar’s Mum email. R has 2 kids on the RPAH elimination diet and her husband had recently found my website and R had found the book Oscar’s Lunch box –… Read more
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Chicken and Risoni Salad
Making mayonnaise is not one of my strong suits and the ones I’ve tried out of the Failsafe cookbook have been too sweet for my liking. Finally I’ve found a very easy, eggless mayonnaise recipe, which adapted well to a few changes. Combined with some left over chicken and vegetables, a can of beans and… Read more
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Golden Drumsticks and Apple and Sour Cream Coleslaw
With the weather getting warmer, its time for salads and BBQs. I got the idea for this coleslaw from Better Homes and Gardens a few weeks ago. The drumsticks can be cooked in the oven or on the BBQ and be eaten hot or cold. Cold they are great to take on a picnic, and go well with… Read more
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Potato and Bean Salad
I know the warm weather seems to have disappeared from Melbourne, but I thought I would post this for my readers on the other side of the world, who are coming into spring. And maybe we’ll have another burst of Autumn sunshine yet! This is a good salad for taking on picnics. Both the salad… Read more
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BBQ Salmon and Scallops with Chips and Lentil and Rice Salad
Salmon is an Oscar favourite and almost a guarantee that he will eat something. Scallops we have never cooked before, but they are low chemical and were really easy on the BBQ. The BBQ recipes are my husband’s. I based the salad recipe on one I found on the MasterChef website. It went really well with the… Read more
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Barbequed Chicken Strips with Chunky Chips and Pear and Bean salad
We managed to have one BBQ last week before the weather turned cold again. BBQs are so easy and there’s a lot less cleaning up required in the kitchen. This is one of our most popular BBQ combinations, its quick and easy to do. The marinade for the chicken is the Golden Marinade recipe from… Read more
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BBQ Time
With the weather starting to warm up I’ve been thinking about BBQ cooking and preparing meals for spring and summer. This is my favourite BBQ recipe and is great for entertaining. The salad is also a good one for taking to someone else’s BBQ. The green bean salad recipe is based on one in The Women’s… Read more