A couple of days ago I attended a delicious and oh-so-beautifully presented @carmanskitchen breakfast event. The pistachio overnight oats was so damn good that I ate a double serve and the presentation was a real feast for the eyes. I have been lucky enough to hear @carolyncreswell share her business success story a few times and yes, like all successful businesses it has had its fair share of challenges but Carolyn has epitomised the art of not stopping just because someone gives you no for an answer. My family are big fan of Carman’s…so much so that we have a small pantry-worth of products taking up a few shelves in our garage! Thanks for a yummy and fun breakfast event. 🥰
One pot dinners that take 5 minutes to prep are simply the best!
My favourite memories of growing up in South Africa are my food memories from my grandmother’s home. My Omi escaped Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and never saw her mother again, who was sent on a cattle train to a death camp. Despite my Omi suffering such heartache, she filled her home with love through cooking the most delicious meals for every Jewish Sabbath and festival. Tonight I recreated one of her specialities, homemade chicken soup served with perogen, which are tiny meat pies that every traditional Jewish family ate in South Africa. As I bit into the flaky pastry, I was immediately transported back to her home, where Saturday afternoons meant long lunches at her house after Synagogue, filled with smells of chicken soup and my Omi encouraging me to eat ‘just one more perogen’, as all good grandmothers do! I really miss her and her cooking a lot. 💔
The environment we eat in makes a huge difference to an eating experience. I ate this mandarin overlooking the ocean at the end of a three day hike on the exquisite @abeltasmannz track and it was one of the sweetest, juiciest mandarins I have ever tasted. We really eat with all our senses and the ‘where’ can play an equally important role as the ‘what’.
Hot summer nights means salad family dinners. Tonight’s concoction was super crunchy with celery, chickpeas, cucumber, green capsicum, herbs from my garden, red onion, tuna & brown rice. I blended it with a quick dressing of EVOO, fresh lemon juice and my favourite @activiaaustralia yoghurt (the plain flavour is the best for dressings). And the best part? It took about 10 minutes to make and only used one giant bowl 👊
I have been lagging behind the cottage cheese trend. Whilst I quite like the taste and texture, as a young dietitian I came across too many people overdoing cottage cheese as part of those horrible taste-free weight loss diets. So I think I needed to disassociate the negativity! Well, I can confirm I am back on the cottage cheese band wagon after this delicious lunch I made today. I mixed cottage cheese, fresh tomato, Spanish onion, finely diced green capsicum and a handful of mozzarella. I topped a couple of pieces of sourdough with the mixture and popped into the air fryer at 200 degrees for about 8 minutes. This was next level yumminess and will definitely be on repeat!
