Salad Recipes

Baby Cos Salad with Peas & Haloumi

A month or so back our vegetable garden finally materialized after years of hype and speculation. It’s funny when you actually start something after so much procrastination and then you realize it’s not very hard at all. Anyway, this here baby cos (romaine) lettuce is our very first harvest and it’s taught me that if [...]

Continue to the recipe →

Puy Lentil, Tomato & Feta Salad

I had a version of this fabulous salad at the cafe in our office building the other day. I got myself into a right tizzy, having lost a good few hours work when my computer flaked out, and suddenly realized I was absolutely starving. The vegetarian fare can be a mixed bag at the cafe, [...]

Continue to the recipe →

Bulgur with Garden Vegetables & Roasted Feta

Have you ever roasted goat feta? I just tried it tonight and it was so good I decided I had to do a post about it. Just crumble the feta into a small roasting dish, drizzle with a few good glugs of olive oil and throw in a few sprigs of fresh rosemary. Roast. Then [...]

Continue to the recipe →

Five Grains & Herbs

The hero of this dish is my new favourite grain mix – it has equal parts red quinoa, white quinoa, black quinoa, amaranth, and short grain brown rice. It’s really a beautiful combination in terms of both appearance and taste. I love how the various textures balance one another: the soft white quinoa, the slightly [...]

Continue to the recipe →

Peanut Noodle Salad

Yesterday I threw together this peanut noodle salad in a mad rush while preparing a couple of other dishes for a big pot luck dinner we were hosting last night. It often happens that when I’m cooking during the day, preparing for a dinner party, the last thing I think about is what to have [...]

Continue to the recipe →

Pan-fried Lentil Caprese

I’ll admit that this here twist on caprese is not exactly revolutionary, but you need to see it from my perspective. Would you believe me if I told you that the first time I tried caprese was last year? Seriously guys. I blame it on my sheltered Christchurch upbringing. Although, there is every possibility I [...]

Continue to the recipe →

Fig & Grape Quinoa Salad

I wasn’t planning on sharing this with you just yet because I’m not 100% happy with the photos. Yes, I am actually that vain. I knew the stores would be closed today for Good Friday, so yesterday I got me some dried cannellini beans, chard, and pearled barley, with a vague plan to creating something [...]

Continue to the recipe →

Cath’s Pear Quinoa Salad

Happy New Year everybody! I thought I’d start the New Year with a lovely quinoa salad that I’ve already made for the second time this week. I’m well and truly over rich holiday foods and I love the simple combination of sweet pear and salty feta in this salad. My colleague, Cath, kindly shared her [...]

Continue to the recipe →

Salad Recipes

Categories