I made a super quick and easy classic hummus the other day, and used it as the base for the dip. You can use homemade or store-bought hummus. This recipe could not be simpler. Just spread the hummus on the bottom of a serving dish and top with olives, roasted red peppers, cucumbers, feta cheese, tomatoes, and red onion. That’s seven layers! I also drizzled it with a bit of extra-virgin olive oil and garnished with some fresh dill because I’m an over-achiever and seven wasn’t enough for me :-)...

I can’t get over how fun these are to eat. I love anything that can be dipped in a dip (who doesn’t?), but somehow the cut layers of these potatoes make it all the more fun. The pieces of potatoes can be pulled apart and dunked, or you can just go for it with the whole thing. And that dill sauce!! Man, is it good. I had some leftover (I don’t know how) and had it with crab cakes the next day....

This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! 💭 Why you’ll love this recipe This creamy and lemony one pot pasta with ricotta is the perfect comfort food for any night of the week. Super easy, low-mess, convenient weeknight dinner. You just need a few simple ingredients, one pot, and 15 minutes to make this great meatless weeknight dinner....

This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! 💭 Why you’ll love this recipe They’re perfect for breakfast or a snack. These pumpkin muffins are hearty enough to keep you satisfied until lunchtime, but they also make a great mid-morning or afternoon pick-me-up. They’re easy to make. This recipe only calls for a few simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry....

OK, get this. You take some roasted vegetables. You add chicken or vegetable stock. You heat up and mash. And then… you have soup! SO EASY! I am planning on doing this every single time I have leftover roasted vegetables. And on that note, I plan on making many other roasted vegetable recipes JUST so I have leftovers with which to make soup. I used the leftovers from my Moroccan Spice Roasted Butternut Squash....

If you love warm desserts then this is a must have! It’s sweet, filling, and tastes great any time of the day. Made with pure ingredients like ghee, sugar, and semolina. Why You’ll Love it? It’s a delicious dessert! That is all 🙂 NEW MOM- This is one recipe that helped me produce more breastmilk. Plus, it was something I enjoyed while watching one of my favorite shows as a new mom....

This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! 💭 This squash casserole is so hard to resist! What’s not to love? Honestly, it’s one of those recipes where everyone thinks you’ve been working on it all day, but it’s not even an hour! Comfort food at its best. This creamy casserole is the perfect combination of savory and hearty, making it a comforting meal for a weeknight dinner or weekend meal....

I finally got my wish and the weather in Bristol is sizzling hot. Too hot for my Greek-born kitty, who having lived here now for almost 4 years is no longer used to relentless summer heat. It looks as though she has not managed to shed enough of her thick fur as this heatwave has caught her by complete surprise! Poor thing! I hate seeing her suffer so I’ve turned into an annoying helicopter cat mom walking after her with iced filled water bowls, which she sniffs at and walks off....

Sarah- AHHHHH… I am so excited to present my Thai Red Chicken Curry recipe. Notice I didn’t say authentic because I have never been to Thailand I seriously don’t know what authentic Thai Red Chicken Curry taste like, but I hope to go to Thailand one day and eat authentic Thai Red Chicken Curry there. However, I made it just like I have in my favorite Thai restaurant in America....

This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! 💭 Why you’ll love this Tuscan white bean soup Hearty and healthy on a budget. The combination of kale and white beans means this soup is packed with nutrients, protein, and fiber. Plus, the ingredients are typically cheap! Great make-ahead recipe that comes together in 30 minutes. When kale is in season, this is one of my go-to weeknight recipes!...

Today, I’m happy to present you with a plate of pretty little vegan banana coconut cupcakes…Unfortunately, getting the recipe together wasn’t as pretty and there was a lot of drama. The drama was to do with getting a structurally sound vegan frosting without the use of vegan butter or margarine because a) I’m not overly keen on them b) I cannot get them here anyway. In an attempt to make an ideal frosting, I made so many different incarnations of it that I felt like a crazy scientist sometimes – surrounded by dozen of tiny bowls filled with various concoctions and meticulously writing down the results in a notebook....

As Greece appears to be in the stone fruit season here, today my beloved cherries (I don’t think I’ve ever met a fruit I didn’t like…actually, I still need a bit of convincing from Durian 😉 ) take the centre stage in this pretty handsome vegan black forest cake. This cake was loooong in the making! Why? As it’s tricky! Not the cake itself but making a stable vegan cream that doesn’t turn into liquid was a challenge, I’ll admit!...

You know that phrase ‘the best thing since sliced bread’ (rather unsurprisingly coined by the first industrial manufacturer of pre-sliced supermarket bread) which pronounces something a great invention…? It’s weird as I am not at all convinced that pre-sliced supermarket bread qualifies as such. It’s laden with chemicals, sticks to your teeth, has no texture and it doesn’t even taste like bread at all. On almost all counts, convenience aside, it feels like the exact opposite – a massive regression....

Whenever I make any kind of dumplings, my mind wanders to my late grandma. I feel like we would really bond over our love of cooking if she was still alive today. She was a real dumpling queen and I have never ever had dumplings better than hers and that’s not just me being sentimental. I remember her best with flour all over her hands and a headscarf over her hair, kneading yet another 100 dumplings that the whole family was trying to get their hands on as soon as they were done....

For some reason, I’ve been craving crêpes big time lately. They are not the kind of food I often eat, approximately once a year is enough, but they do remind me of being a child so I get this nostalgic craving from time to time. You may remember my recent post about the wonders of aquafaba, which is my go to egg replacer. Well, I used it in these crêpes too and, once again, it passed the test with flying colours....

This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! 💭 Why you’ll love this recipe The vegan drumsticks are a great way to spice up your game day spread: Super versatile and customizable. Though I love making these vegan drumsticks as a game day snack, you can totally enjoy them as part of dinner or lunch meals too. I use a few simple but classic spices, but you can totally mix things up by making different dipping sauces, adjusting the marinade to your liking, or adding other warm spices to keep things interesting!...

Happy Wednesday! And I hope you like cheesecake as I’m in a cheesecake mood these days. After my last recipe, I’ve developed a hankering for cheesecake filled buns with juicy raspberries and strawberries. I don’t normally publish sweet recipes on a Wednesday (a self-protection mechanism mainly 😉 ), but it was a craving I could not shake off. And then I realised that Duncan was heading off for a two day kayaking trip this morning so I had a perfect excuse to bake....

Even though the sun is shining as I type this and the insanely cold, northern wind has gone away for a few days, it has been pretty chilly here lately. When the weather is like this we tend to work loads to compensate for all the time we will HAVE to take off when the beach season finally commences. We’ve been working away and drinking insane amounts of fresh ginger and lemon tea....

In New England, warm apple cider donuts are a tradition. A delicious, delicious tradition. With a cake-like, fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth texture, rolled directly in cinnamon sugar right after they come out of the fryer, they are simply one of the best things you could ever eat. But since I now live in Texas, I had to learn how to make something similar at home. I adapted Yankee Magazine’s recipe to make a whole wheat (yet still amazingly fluffy!...

WHAT IS SATTU DRINK? 2-Minute Cooling Sattu Drink is made with roasted gram flour powder with jaggery or sugar along with water. This Pakistani recipe is made of just a few ingredients, but feels like a million-dollar drink. It first originated in India and eventually made its way to Pakistan. This Pakistani drink recipe brings me back to my childhood summers in Pakistan when my maternal grandfather used to make it for me....