This warmed salad of vegetarian hotdogs and legumes is cooked without oil! How? I soaked these items in a small pan with red wine vinegar and slowly cooked on a low heat. The vinegar reduces down and the hotdogs and legumes are screaming with flavour!
After making this dish though, I’d recommend using the [...]

Stop the presses! A new study has come out advising shy girls are more likely to put on weight.  To simply advise that the problem is being shy seems to mean a lack of research.
Speaking from experience, it’s a combination of things that can cause weight gain.  Girls are shy because of issues with lack [...]

The last month or so I’ve been bringing in salads to work, rather than soups - because of the heat. For my lunches, I do try to stick between 200-250 calories to ensure I can have a big dinner to stop me getting cravings and eating a dessert afterwards. To keep the calories [...]

Well the heat is on in Melbourne and so are the salads, for not only easy cooking but for a healthy one as well! Two recipes these weeks are from my lunches from the previous week and they were both delicious! I’ll continue to make different salads to ensure I don’t get bored [...]

updated: This has just been awarded the weekly winner of the Golden Gnome award for “Best Main Course” on Make Me Hungry’s flickr group. View here.

Melbourne’s been extremely hot lately and, no one, I’m sure feels like cooking in this type of heat! It’s not the fact that it’s thirty-seven degrees, but the [...]

Lidia’s Italy, the show is a great source for ideas on Italian foods! Just looking at her cooking and visiting her site brings so many ideas to the forefront…this recipe is a direct result of seeing her Tomato and Bread Soup and the craving for a pasta using some old ciabatta bread I had [...]

According to smh.com.au, going to the gym or exercising after a bender (on the same day or day after) is not such a good idea!
Apparently, studies have shown that the body can’t produce enough “glucose the working muscles require.” Whilst not having the glucose means you burn more fat, the level of exercise isn’t [...]

There’s a tradition on my mum’s side to have curries at Christmas (well Boxing Day)! Why not the traditional meal you may ask? Well my mum’s family come from Sri Lanka and hot spicy curries are our thing! This most recent Boxing Day was no exception, where we all brought a curry [...]

Back into the swing of things here now with the new year upon us. Fitness-wise I’m sticking to a plan and hopefully will see it through fully!
The recipes this week are the post-Christmas meals. I love Christmas, but boy are the meals filling and heavy meals are the last thing we all want [...]

This quick and simple sauce goes with the Camembert, cranberries & walnut stuffed vegetarian roast, it can also go with meat dishes such as chicken or turkey.
The lemon juice balances the sauce out allowing a not-too-sweet sauce to be drizzled over your desired roast!
Ingredients:

4 tbs cranberry unsweetened jam
2 tbs dry sherry
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs lemon [...]