Quinoa

Quinoa

I learned to use quinoa when our girls were still babies. Living in Asia, I did not feel comfortable buying ready made food where the list of ingredients was in Chinese, Korean or Japanese only. Because of this, I made everything from scratch…even porridge mixtures 

Edamame Bean Salad

Edamame Bean Salad

This is so easy! I often have a bag of edamame beans in the freezer ready for use – all you have to do is to take it out, defrost it, mix it up with a few ingredients and you have a wonderful green side 

Chicken Salad

Chicken Salad

What do you do when you have scraps of a whole chicken? Well – the scraps don’t make a whole meal on their own, – but peeled it adds to a nice chicken salad. I do several – but here is one based on cucumber, 

Quinoa with pomegranate

Quinoa with pomegranate

This is one of my absolute favorites. It is not exactly a cheap salad to make but super simple and the kids love it – most likely because of the sweet pomegranate. This is indeed a fruit out of the ordinary. It is both sweet 

Herbs

Herbs

Fresh herbs are great!! They are long lasting if you can grow them 😉 If you can not grow them, you can dry them or freeze them when buying too many. Of course, they are no longer fresh when dried 😉 My point is that 

Green pea soup

Green pea soup

Beautiful in color, plenty on vitamins, quick to cook and absolutely delicious! I have to say that I vamped it up with pan seared smoked hallibut – this because we had it as a left over from a lunch consisting of fish. But the halibut 

Capsicum salad

Capsicum salad

What better way to start a day than with a varied healthy breakfast with eggs, bread, cereal, yoghurt and some greens. I know…you don’t have time for this every day – but here is a suggestion to a salad which is tasty and refreshing in 

Capsicum

Capsicum

Red, green, orange, yellow…capsicum is offered in various colors. The red, yellow and orange ones are sweeter than the green capsicums but can all be eaten raw or cooked. I often use them as snacks for the children but also often end up having some 

Cabbage salad

Cabbage salad

Cabbage is good…! It is quite long lasting and you don’t need to cook it. Quite often I use either red cabbage or a white pointed cabbage, – or mixed. Most importantly, when using it as a salad, you need to slice it super fine