Mushroom, cheese and basil omelet
Buttered mushrooms, laced with cheese, wrapped in egg, topped with avocado,… drool drool drooool!
Category Archives: My recipes
recipes I’ve made up, drawing from experience + recipes I’ve seen
Spicy butternut
You roasting that butternut yet? Well, time to spice it up a little…
Roasted butternut breakfast
Have you ever roasted butternut? No? you should. If you like them you’ll like them even more. If you don’t like them at all, you might change your mind. Here’s a recipe to get you started…
Banana brownie cake
Sometimes you feel like experimenting and everything around you just works in your favour. Like neighbours bringing you stuff to work with… This is a must try in your home by the way, most especially if you have kids!
Easy sautéd mushrooms over linguine
For when you want savoury without the fuss! You will need to have some spaghetti sauce handy though, or my home made tomato paste which doubles as a spaghetti sauce. The store bought kind will do but nothing beats home made.
Roasted chicken with mixed roots
Delicious all in one recipe! Requires quite a bit of prep work in the beginning. Cutting, chopping etc. But once all that is done the rest is easy. Most of the cutting can be done ahead of time too.
Pizzafied eggplant
The herbed zucchini rounds inspired me. I started thinking about what else I could cut into rounds and sprinkle with yummy toppings and voila! — Pizzafied eggplant!
Herbed zucchini rounds
This is an awesome idea for turning a simple vegetable into a very tasty snack. Also makes a nice appetiser…
Green eggs and ham
I bet you’re wondering how I made those eggs green! (^_^) I was very simple actually…
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!
Cheesy roasted taro root/magimbi/nduma
Sometimes experimenting doesn’t require a lot of thinking and planning, just mix two of your favourite things and see what what happens…