Blueberry and Lemon Ricotta Slice

November 15, 2010

Our blueberry bushes are bearing and the farm up the road is selling bags of blueberry seconds so this is the  second in the   Muesli Bar Challenge series featuring blueberries.  Last week’s muffins are a hard act to follow.  This recipe is just as healthy, low in fat and sugar and featuring ricotta, yoghurt, eggs and [...]

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Broad Bean Ful Medames

October 17, 2010

We forgot to take a photo – we’d eaten most of them for breakfast before I thought of it!  Here’s the rest.  Ful medames are a traditional breakfast all through North Africa. They are traditionally made with dried beans, and I make a version of this often in winter when I have the wood stove [...]

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Chickpea and Silverbeet Lemon Soup

October 10, 2010

This is an easy, but long slow recipe. Perfect for a wet day at home with the fire going.  Chickpeas and silver beet, livened up with lemons and olives – the nice part about it is that it is the kind of filling, low fat, very yummy soup you can snack on all day and [...]

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Greens as Themselves

September 9, 2010

Cooking vegetables in my mother’s generation meant boiling them until they gave up.  I am an eldest child, my partner is a youngest, so his mother was a generation older.  Her version of chokos was boiled until they liquified. No wonder  as kids we weren’t great fans of vegetables! It is amazing how much food [...]

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Lemon, Macadamia and Ricotta Blondies

August 2, 2010

I’ve already blogged on about the nutritional value of macadamias and lemons (especially lemon rind), so I won’t go there again.  These are blondies (as opposed to brownies), and as well as macas and lemons, they are a good source of protein with their eggs and low fat ricotta.  They have no butter and very [...]

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Lemon and Ricotta Tarts

June 29, 2010

The dessert version of these is easy, but the healthy lunchbox version is a little trickier.  It is still easy enough, though, to be within the bounds of the Muesli Bar Challenge rule:  easy enough for busy parents and even kids themselves to be bothered actually making, routinely, for daily school or work lunchboxes. The [...]

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Lemon Yoghurt Honey Muffins

June 21, 2010

I have had my (now grown up) kids home for Yule, so this week’s  the Muesli Bar Challenge recipe was baked by Casey.  It is one of his favourite schooldays recipes.  We shall see whether current school-age reviewers agree! Cooking with kids is such fun, even (or specially) grown up ones. Lemons are currently so [...]

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Pumpkin Tarts

June 15, 2010

This is the last of the Muesli Bar Challenge recipes based on pumpkin. I still have a couple of other recipes to post, but the brush turkeys have got the last of our pumpkins. It was good while it lasted! The pumpkin recipes have gone over well with the kids so far, in fact all [...]

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Lemon Polenta Steamed Muffins

June 7, 2010

I forgot to take a picture of the Muesli Bar Challenge this week! We had a brunch party on Sunday morning, and luckily someone took a mobile phone photo that has the ones that I made for that in it. But you don’t really see their blonde enticingness! This recipe has a little more sugar [...]

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