SAVOURY
While it might appear that I have a sweet tooth, yet my ♥ belongs to savoury!! You won't find too many savoury recipes here of late as my focus has been desserts for a while now, yet dive into the archives and there are plenty. My oven and grill are on cooking up a savoury storm almost everyday...
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Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice Trail Mix … addictive good snack on the go!
Think tangy, sweet, slightly smoky, herby, crisp ... this vegan, gluten free Trail Mix is all that and more. It's addictive and offers loads of different flavours that dance on the tongue. It…
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No Fuss No Knead Focaccia Recipe with walnuts, garlic and rosemary… simple and delicious
This No Fuss No Knead Focaccia Recipe with walnuts, garlic and rosemary is very very forgiving and very delicious too. I love the moistness it offers, the flour to water ratio baking up…
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Quickest & Simple Homemade Barbeque Sauce! You Never Need To Buy It Again.
Quickest & Simple Homemade Barbeque Sauce ... a drop dead simple recipe, ready in under 5 minutes, infinitely customisable and pretty darned delicious.
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Quick Simple Delicious Broccoli Walnut Soup
This large mug of Broccoli Walnut Soup is everything - requires only staple pantry ingredients, is quick, fuss free, healthy, easily adaptable, can easily go vegan ... literally a hug in a mug…
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Angoori Kesari Gulab Jamuns … quick, fuss free festive desserts #HappyDiwali
Angoori Kesari Gulab Jamuns ... most delicious, surprisingly easy and so fuss free, you'll wonder why you never made these before
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Best Vegan Roasted Pumpkin & Sundried Tomato Pizza Galette
The Best Roasted Pumpkin & Sundried Tomato Pizza Galette ... this vegan savoury bake hit the ball out of the park. It has everything good about it, and is the easiest to make.…
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Quick No Yeast Garlic Pizza, or just ‘simple quick no- planning required’ pizza.
No Yeast Garlic Pizza ... the simplest and one of the quickest pizzas I've ever made! It's part wholegrain, requires no yeast and therefore no proofing/rising time! Also in notes, an oven roasted…
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Cheesy Garlic, Walnut & Rosemary Soda Bread … quick breads that spell comfort
This quick and easy, and absolutely delicious Cheesy Garlic, Walnut & Rosemary Soda Bread uses basic pantry staples and is ready to be mixed and baked in next to no time. With a…
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Broccoli Green Garlic Coconut Cashew Soup … firm favourite! #glutenfree #vegan
Broccoli Green Garlic Coconut Cashew Soup! If someone had asked me a couple of months ago which my favourite soup was, it would probably have been the carrot orange, perhaps the mushroom rosemary.…
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Pumpkin Green Garlic Turmeric Soup …comfort for these cold days
Pumpkin Green Garlic Turmeric Soup. Pumpkin Green Garlic Turmeric Soup. Thick, hearty, bursting with earthy flavours and satisfying. If you belong to the hearty, earthy soup club, this is for you. Winter means…
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Carrot Orange Turmeric Soup … staying warm this winter!
Carrot Orange Turmeric Soup They say we're experiencing the coldest winter in North India in decades. That calls for endless soups, stews & hot chocolate! I'm trying my hand at things I've never…
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Simple Chickpea Hummus … back to the basics
Simple Chickpea Hummus … some things are good when kept basic. It’s nice to master the simplest form of a recipe, then treat is as a canvas and build on it. This is…
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Roasted Cauliflower Salad – making the most of vegetables! #glutenfree #plantfood
Grilled Cauliflower Salad is a great salad for winter, and also for spring. I have served this warm from the oven, as well as chilled overnight. It's addictive good both ways. I have…
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Mushroom Cashew Rosemary Soup … truly a winter warmer!
Simple to make, beautifully flavoured and quite creamy because of the cashews within, Mushroom Cashew Rosemary Soup is a winter favourite. Thickened with oats and cashews makes it healthy, delicious and gluten free too.A great…
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Lamb Mince Capsicum / Keema Capsicum … winter favourite comfort food
Lamb Mince with Capsicum / Keema Capsicum ... a one wok / kadhai dish which is certain to tantalise the taste-buds, keep you warm this winter, basically comfort food at its best. The…
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Cold Cucumber Garlic Soup… 10 things you can make in your Kitchen Aid Blender
Cold Cucumber Garlic Soup... one of 10 things you can make in your Kitchen Aid Blender. Think dips, chutneys, batter, waffles, ice cream, fruit purees, nut butters, smoothies & smoothie bowls. That and…
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Wine marinated chicken taco bites
Wine marinated chicken taco bites turned out to be such fun little bites, and a great snack to serve, with wine perhaps? Though not traditionally used in a marinade, wine adds nice flavour to…
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Polenta Cheese Crackers and a cracker of an Eggplant Melon Seed Dip … with infused olive oils
Polenta Cheese Crackers {and canapes} and a cracker of a dip. The oh-so-delicious smooth Eggplant Melon Seed Dip comes together in seconds. Both the crackers and the dip are beautifully flavoured by an…
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Crudites with Creamy Garlic Dip and Seedy Buckwheat Crackers
Crudites with Creamy Garlic Dip and Seedy Buckwheat Crackers might well be one of my favourite ways to rustle up something simple and quite addictive for an everyday healthy nibble, a small get…
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Bhune Murgh ki Biryani … delicious one pot rice & chicken Indian meal
The Bhune Murgh ki Biryani is a one pot comfort meal, rich, flavourful and homely. The flavours tease the palette and the chicken is beautifully spiced. It turned out to be deliciously good,…
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Cooking | Lamb Chops with Red Wine… deep, delicious holiday flavours with Big Banyan Wines
These Lamb Chops with Red Wine turned out to be the best I've ever made. Rosemary, garlic, and a limited edition Shiraz from Big Banyan Wines came together ever so beautifully to create…
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Smoky Baked Mushroom Cheese Dip with #bigbanyanwines for the holidays
Smoky Baked Mushroom Cheese Dip is a definite crowd pleaser, and a great addition to the holiday table. Smoky Gouda, wine simmered mushrooms, garlic and fresh thyme make one of the best cheesy…
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Baking | Smoked Eggplant Walnut Truffle Dip – earthy, rustic, nutty & delicious
Eggplant Walnut Smoked Truffle Dip...earthy, rustic, nutty, slightly tangy, creamy, smoky delicious. Play around with ingredients to suit your palette. That's the beauty of dips.
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Chicken Jalfrezi … a quick version of the Indo-Chinese stir fry curry
This Chicken Jalfrezi made essentially with peppers, green chilies, onions and tomatoes gets a delicious twist of taste with coconut milk. If you like a thick hearty curry which is a quick and…
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FoodTalk | Terra Chips … Exotic vegetable chips in a bag! 2 dips too #TERRAadventures
When you have vegetables this crisp, rustic and earthy with flavours that explode in your mouth, you know Terra Chips have got it right #TERRAadventures
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Chole Masala / Curried Spicy Chickpeas
Chole Masala / Curried Spicy Chickpeas is a quintessential recipe from the Indian sub continent, one of the most popular perhaps. Every house has it's own recipe, and you can keep them as…
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Baking | Olive Oil Walnut Garlic Rosemary Foccacia … bread of life
Nothing better than fresh home baked bread, and this Olive Oil Walnut Garlic Rosemary Foccacia is bursting with flavour. The Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer and their great quality bake-ware make baking breads so…
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Baking | Cheese Garlic Rosemary Eggless Brioche … goodness of cheese & bread
With so many fabulous things within, eating the Cheese Garlic Rosemary Eggless Brioche was literally like nibbling a cheeseboard! Serve pears, apples, grapes, olives, cold cuts on the side, maybe a nice smoked…
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Persian Roasted Eggplant Walnut Dip … earthy, smokey, moorish, delicious!
This Persian Roasted Eggplant & Walnut Dip has a lot to offer. The twice used garlic, the walnuts, then the creaminess from Greek yogurt make it endearing. The caramelised sweet onions and garlic…
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Rosemary Garlic Sesame Millet Crackers with Lovilovi and Bird’s Eye Sweet Chili Pickle … earthy beautiful pairing
Rosemary Garlic Sesame Millet Crackers turned out to be crackers with a bite. Paired with the sweet chili pickle, they got just the right kick as well, some smoked Gouda on the side…
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Dhungaar-e-Keema or Smoked Lamb Mince #comfortfood #Indiancuisine
“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.” Ruth Reichl Dhungaar-e-Keema or Smoked Indian Lamb Mince is a quintessential recipe from the Indian subcontinent, one that…
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Baking | Simple Straightforward Delicious 100% Wholewheat Pizza … #cleaneating
Simple, quick, fuss free, this 'loaded with goodness' 100% Wholewheat Pizza will keep the young and old all happy. Base done, fix the toppings as you like, else there is a recipe below.…
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Genoa Fougasse with spiced yogurt, hummus & foxnuts … for the love of bread
Genoa Fougasse turned out to be the best bread I've baked in a while. Sometimes you just need 'bread luxury', and this became that and much more. The difference here was the new…
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The Masala Dabba #4 & Chettinad Chicken Curry. Chilies, as hot as hot can be!
“Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of…
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C is for Chettinad, Chidambaram Vilas & Chettinadu Cuisine. Off the beaten track -Karaikudi, South India
Karaikudi, South India. We managed much more than we could ever imagine. 2 days can never be enough for a place as beautifully, and as historically and culturally rich like this. There's so…
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Masala Dabba #3. As we journey on, colours pop for Spring and Holi
The spices we cover for The Masala Dabba #3 are cardamom, whole pepper and turmeric. I think I love the spice journey best. We enter month #3 of our collaborative spice journey with…
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O Banaras, the holy city
Our iconic trip to Banaras was memorable, action packed and absolute fun all the way {warning long post}. I was going to do a smallish post, but a load of folk on FB…
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Savoury Granola – gluten free, healthy, addictive
Savoury granola is delicious, addictive, crisp & crunchy good! Good for breakfast, as a snack, over salads etc. This quick healthy bake is also great as a part of a trail mix, or…
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Masala Dabba #2, spicing up desserts with the spice box
It's strange how often we connect spices to savoury foods, often in India spice is synonymous with a curry! Delightfully enough, as we blog on, reading more, breaking new ground and exploring our…
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Lakshman Sagar, Rajasthan. ‘Where all you do is ‘nothing’!!
Nothing quite prepares you for the luxury and peace of Lakshman Sagar. Nothing at all. It caught me by surprise, a place I have been putting off visiting for over a year. Now…
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Baking | Wholewheat Garlic Oat Soda Bread … Instagram inspired baking #makehalfyourgrainswhole
Wholewheat Garlic Oat Soda Bread is possibly the quickest bread you can bake. From almost a no knead shaggy dough that is quick to throw together, it's our current favourite bread. Try this…
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The Masala Dabba #1… exploring the Indian spice box
The Masala Dabba. A name that paints a spicy picture. A fun food styling experiment born out of a conversation one day in December last year. Spices are something that intrigue us, and…
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Baking | Savoury Braided Bread … with garlic, rosemary and sundried tomatoes
Delicious part whole wheat Savoury Braided Bread where the mixer does all the hard work, literally all in the same bowl. It leaves you all the time in the world to gently braid…
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Chicken Pasta Salad in Home Made Buttermilk Salad Dressing
A nice summery Chicken Pasta Salad in Home Made Buttermilk Salad Dressing which can be made ahead for summer. Toss together and serve immediately in winter. It's a meal in a bowl, and…
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Smoked Bhopali Köfte Curry … a Turkish twist of taste
Lightly spiced, moist, flavourful lamb mince Smoked Bhopali Köfte with a Turkish influence. Enjoy them in this Indian style curry, else grill them as kebabs if you like.
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Kadhi {Indian vegetarian yogurt curry}
A quintessential Indian vegetarian yogurt based curry, which can be found adapted to regional taste. This is my version and it is fragrant, addictive and finger licking good. The Hamilton Beach Multiblender makes…
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Strawberry Kiwi Fruit Salad … go light with summer
Strawberry Kiwi Fruit Salad is a simple, refreshing, make ahead or make instantly glass of joy. Strawberries and kiwi are two very vitamin rich fruit. Throw in a bunch of fresh herbs from…
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GRILL IN with summer … a charcoal grill & herby lime chicken
Summers here, and that means GRILL GRILL GRILL! Here's a nice herby Italian chicken that is simple, full of flavour and beautifully smoked on the bbq.
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Wholegrain Olive Oil Crackers & 3 Dips | Roasted Bell Pepper, Garlic & Walnut + Classic Garlicky Cream + Rocket Cashew Dip
Wholegrain Olive Oil Crackers & 3 Dips |Roasted Bell Pepper, Garlic & Walnut + Classic Garlicky Cream + Rocket Cashew Dip ... hit the ball out of the park #tickettocheer
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Jaipur… a trip down memory lane
Jaipur is a beautiful city with the awe inspiring architecture, so well looked after too. Heritage around every corner, it is really well planned. The Pink City as Jaipur is also called, is…
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Baby Mustard Greens, Turnip & Almond Soup with a Mustard Vinaigrette in the Philips SoupMaker
Baby Mustard Greens, Turnip & Almond Soup with a Mustard Vinaigrette ... the Philips Soupmaker - a review and Philips Rice Cooker giveaway. A gadget that is great to have in your kitchen,…
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Walking through the streets of Old Delhi on a cold winter morning #props
With a head full of memories and a bagful of goodies I reached home cold, exhausted but so so happy! I love any trip into the old city. The next trip will be…
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Baby Mustard Greens Indian Stir Fry … #freshproduce #NorthIndia #vegetarian #stirfry #healthy
Baby Mustard Greens Indian Stir Fry ... quick, as spicy as you like it, simple and fuss free. Fresh produce is one of the highlights of winter in North India, and mustard greens…
