Roasted rainbow veggies — a warm salad.
Looking for something with a good mix of colour that’s fun to serve and delicious? This is sure to brighten up your spread and delight your guests! Make a note to try it this weekend.
Category Archives: Greens/Vegetables
vegetable recipes, different ways to eat your greens
Sukuma wiki (collard greens) in caramelised onions
Wanna add some savoury sweet to this robust and flavourful green? Caramelised onions will do just that for you and the results are awesomeness in your mouth. Your tastebuds will sing!
Sugar snaps and baby corn stir fry
Beautiful colour, tasty, a little sweet even — what more can you ask for in a veggie stir-fry!
Roasted cherry tomatoes and cauliflower
Every time I roast veggies I like the idea more and more. I’m also discovering new things I can roast…
Vegetable Confetti
If you are looking for something colourful to add to the table other than a big vase of flowers (which just gets in the way of good meal time conversation) — this is the perfect side, it’s easy and versatile!
Ina’s go to recipe for maridadi veggies
Hello! I hope you enjoyed getting to know Ina yesterday. Today you get a recipe.
Oven roasted asparagus
Asparagus has been a challenging one for me to figure out. I don’t even think I’ve cooked it more than 5 times. It’s nice when I eat it at restaurants but at home I just couldn’t get it to taste right. I think I’m getting close though, this is the best I’ve made at home so far…
Eggplant and pumpkin veggie side
Isn’t that a beautiful specimen of a pumpkin? My mother sent it to me, it is from her garden. One day when I own my own home I’d love to keep a garden like my parents do. It’s not just pretty with flowers, there’s plenty to eat. I remember when we were growing up there was always something you could snack from while in the garden, or pick to cook with. Mango, avocado and guava trees; rosemary and gooseberry bushes between the flowers; a few edible greens; passion fruit vine intertwined in the live fence,… Not all at the same time but there was always 3 or 4 things. Doesn’t it sound awesome though?
Lamb and veggie roast
If you haven’t fired up your oven for a while, here are two very good reasons to!
Creamy cauliflower potatoes
Been making an effort to serve whole meals, with all three parts, veggies, starch and protein. But potatoes with cauliflower on the side did not sound appetising. Too much white on the plate. So I mixed things up a bit…
Tomato chutney
I tried another chutney, this one much sweeter than the previous one and used more tomatoes like I wanted.
Buttery carrot side
I find that the simplest and best recipes I learn of every now and then always come from the people around me. This one is an awesome side that I recently learned how to make from a dear friend. Enjoy!
Tomato and aubergine chutney
An awesome dual purpose sweet and savoury chutney, can use it as a side for a meal or as a sauce over pasta. I suggest making a large quantity to store in a jar in the fridge and use up slowly over a couple of weeks. Great to have ready for the days when you need a quick meal — just make some pasta and voila!
Melissa wa Declan: Cheesy broccoli
This broccoli recipe from Melissa is a gem! Check it out, give it a try and pass it on!
Pumpkin leaves and butternut
If i haven’t said it already, pumpkin leaves are my favourite leafy green veggie, they are awesome when cooked with ground veggies, thats my preferred way to have them, but this is nice as well.
Tilapia in sage sauce
It’s always exciting to visit mom, every time I see her I learn something new in her kitchen.
Broccoli and mushrooms
Oh! That was such a nice long weekend! I didn’t get much rest but it was fun. This dish was one of those use what you have moments, and it turned out really well, check it out!
Cabbage cooked with eggplant
It wasn’t really the plan but I had to do something to save the eggplant or I would have had to throw it out (^_^)
Ugali and Sukuma
I mixed the sukuma with spinach, palak spinach to be exact, it was nice.
Comfrey curry and ug
Comfrey is a lovely vegetable. The leaves are a bit rough like pumpkin. How did I discover it? My mother.
Layered baked potatoes – Part 2
And here is how you finish it up. If you haven’t seen part 1, start there first.
Layered baked potatoes – Part 1
This dish requires a lot of preparation and it is worth the effort. So if you have some time give it a go…
Pasta with creamy tomato and eggplant sause
A most delicious way to eat eggplant!
Mixed vegetable soup with home made bread
Vegetable soup is one of the easiest things to make. All you need is a mix of vegetables and a good stock (could be a meat stock or a vegetable stock). Which vegetables is really up to you, just pick your favourites, or just work with what you have. Here’s how I put one together with what I had…
Ugali with okra
Yes yes! Once in a while I like to challenge my fears — or rather take on the challenge of making new/better memories with foods that I ran from as a child. See how this one went…
Baked eggplant with fried rice
I have never cooked eggplant. I’ve seen my Mother do it, but never done it myself. Figured it was time to give it a go (^_^)
Pappardelle and sweet tomato sauce
So, it was time to make dinner and I was totally blank! I think the cooking part of my brain is still on vacation. Well, not completely, I’m thinking about making cookies and nuts, baking bread and making chapos. But I can’t combine any of that into a proper meal for dinner! Plus my kitchen still feels like I’m on vacation, I need to stock up on a few things. That’s probably the problem.
Beef in rosemary and garlic, mashed sweet potatoes and green beans
Our first dinner of the year at home…
Tuesday dinner 2: Potato salad and comfrey
Have you ever mixed in different roots for your potato salad? Try it, it’s very nice, especially with sweet poatatoes.
Fried liver with baked sweet potatoes and pumpkin leaves
It sounds like an odd combination but it is pleasantly quite the happy burst of flavour. You absolutely should try it.