We love our salad; dinner just isn’t the same without it! Adding beans to a salad makes it more filling so you can have it by itself for a snack or lunch. This salad is made with chickpeas. Delicious, healthy and easy to make. …
Meatless Meals
Avocado Hummus
Calling all hummus and avocado lovers! Well, actually, even if you are not a fan of hummus, I think you will like this. My daughter Sara isn’t a big fan of hummus, but even she likes it when made with avocado. …
Spinach Lakror with Parsley and Dill
This lakror is fresh tasting and delicious, not your regular spinach burek, the dill gives it a nice unique flavour and compliments the spinach a lot. …
Garden Chickpea Salad
This is a great way to use up your garden veggies! It is a delicious summertime salad, we love adding beans to our salad, it makes it more healthier and gives it more texture! …
Labne with Tomatoes and Zaatar
Homemade labne is delicious, so much better than store bought and easy to make! You can make it with homemade yogurt or store bought. I do recommend using 5% or 6% milk fat yogurt such as Balkan yogurt, it works best. …
Potato Salad with Avocado
Potato salad with avocado is so delicious, creamy and tasty with no mayonnaise. I love this salad, it is a family favourite. …
Turkish Pasta Salad
Turkish pasta salad is delicious, and just a little healthier than your regular pasta salad. It is made with yogurt, which makes it a little tangy which I really enjoy, and lots of veggies. …
Broccoli and Spinach Pizza
This a delicious, different kind of pizza filled with veggies and cheese. They have something similar to this at the Middle Eastern bakery in town. They are called spinach pies or hand pies and in some bakeries, they make them with broccoli. I have a recipe for that on the blog as well. I like to make it like this, it reminds me of lakror Albanian style pizza.
My daughter Dina loves this! I hope you try it out and like as much as we do! …
Lentil Soup
If you a regular reader of my blog you will know that I had gallbladder/stones issues this year, update I did end up having it removed in September. During the time before surgery (5 months) I had to change my diet, and that meant no or little fat, no red meat, no eggs, butter or sugar! Since then I am still on a red meat free diet, I have been trying to reintroduce it to my diet this past two weeks (in very small amounts) but it doesn’t agree with me. Not sure if it’s permanent or temporary….
Baked Fries with Feta -Greek Fries
I love fries, but I cannot eat fried food as much anymore, in fact I haven’t anything fried since January! That doesn’t mean I cannot enjoy my fries, baked fries can be just as good! If you choose to fry that is perfectly fine and will be totally amazing, but if you are like me and have to avoid fried foods for health reasons, then these baked fries are the ones for you….