Tag: Healthy
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Warm lentil and squash salad
This warm lentil and squash salad is tasty and low maintenance. It requires little attention while cooking and can be served anywhere on the temperature spectrum from chilled to piping hot depending on the promptness of the guests and how distracted I get chatting before I get around to feeding anyone. The French lentils give…
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Broad bean, horseradish and avocado dip
Wake up the senses with this easy broad bean, horseradish and avocado dip. The broad beans give the dip a brilliant bright green colour, the horseradish gives heat and bite while the avocado creates a velvety smooth texture. With their grey, bitter skin, broad beans can evoke memories of school dinner misery but, beneath the…
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Quinoa Mexicana salad
This Quinoa Mexicana Salad is quick, easy and nutrient rich making it perfect lunchtime fare to get you through the winter months. Though imbued with a sense of promise of what the New Year might offer, January is a month in which I never seem to quite get on top of things. I don’t know…
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Spicy butternut squash, chilli and lime soup
After several weeks of season denial the day is finally upon us. After a week of wandering around the house wearing two jumpers and a blanket as a cape I have finally given in and put the heating on. Although a fan of winter salads the status of soup as the ultimate sustenance in the…