Time for salads

I’m addicted to the green leaves of baby spinach. Baby spinach, capsicum, tomato, egg and emmental cheese with balsamic vinaigrette. Baby spinach, feta, sundried tomatoes and tuna with balsamic vinaigrette

Greek Influenced Scallop Salad with Lemon Dressing.

This is a very quick and tasty light meal. I was worried that the olives would overwhelm the dish so I only put a few in. It ended up working well. It had the tartness of the olives, the saltiness of the feta and the sourness of the lemon dressing. If you don’t like olives [...]

Calzone

This calzone was the second course for a dinner we hosted last week. Thomas had a day off work so he did all the cooking! The calzone was made and assembled before-hand so all we had to do was pop it in the oven, which meant no running in and out of the kitchen and [...]

Asparagus and Feta Mousetraps

It’s another wintry Sunday afternoon here and I was all on my lonesome in our rather cold house (welcome to New Zealand). Time for comfort food like mousetraps with asparagus, served with a nice pot of tea. We’ve featured mousetraps here before but I just wanted to point out that the addition of lumps of [...]