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Quick and easy zucchini soup
My first two veggie boxes had two zucchinis each and while I have nothing against zuccs, they just sat in the bottom of my fridge for a few weeks looking sad. Four was too many to grill or bake or do anything with. Until I remembered that O’s mum makes a delish zucchini and cream side dish. So I based this soup on that, only I added garlic and put it in the blender. It was too easy and I used all the zucchinis. Bam.
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Poached pear bircher muesli (+ spiced red wine poached pears)
I was reading one of Neil Perry’s books when I first decided to make bircher muesli. I’d eaten it years before and thought it tasted like glue but Neil convinced me I needed to try it again and that’s when my obsession started. Anyway, Neil often has his bircher with poached pears so today, for Day 3 muesli, I finally tried it. And I’m calling it, this is the ultimate bircher.
It is sweet and creamy and heavenly. I’m going to need to start having people over for luxury brunches just to show it off.
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Banana and cinnamon bircher muesli
In good news I have finally remembered how the kitchen works, you’ll be seeing more of me now. The bad news? Pretty sure I am only cooking so I don’t have to study. Awks. Anyway I’m on a whole bircher muesli craze so in doing 7 mueslis in 7 days! No idea what they’re going to be yet but get excited, it’s practically like having (totally guilt free and healthy) dessert for breakfast !!
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Hot smoked salmon pasta salad recipe
One of my lecturers was joking about how we all seem to end up defaulting to pasta for dinner every second day, I reasiled that this was hugely true for me but I’d already bought pasta for that night! Instead of ditching the meal, i decided to change the ratios. With half the pasta and double the leaves, i also got essentially less calories and more nutrients. And a delicious and fresh summer meal.
Serves 2
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Excess baggage - Weight gain and travel
Firstly sorry for the being MIA so long, i planned to queue some posts before we left but you know how it is before traveling, so much planning, packing and working. But we are back from our magical 9 weeks in Cambodia, India and Singapore now, and you should be ready for a ridic amount of Indian recipes, as soon as i figure out if it’s possible to make the food taste as delicious as it is over there, sans the ghee (clarified butter-read: pure fat) and the cream, or at least with a bit less of both.
Clearly I loved the food in India. But perhaps a little more than i should have. 6kgs more in fact.
Click the link below to read my thoughts on weight gain and travel and a few tips to slow down the inevitable pile up of kilos.
