One minute in the microwave is enough to make perfectly poached eggs, with oozy gooey yolks #yolkporn. That could pretty much be this entire blog post. A friend who works in a cafe told me that when they were rushed they used a shortcut to poach eggs. Some internet research tells me this is not a…
Tag: vegetarian
Seven minute recipe: Microwave potato gnocchi with miso and green peas
This recipe for potato gnocchi with miso and green peas is one of my emergency recipes, that is all the ingredients are things I keep in the freezer or pantry all the time. I can make this even if I haven’t been shopping for weeks and have no fresh ingredients in the house. Buttery carbs…
Brussel sprouts are sexy (with tahini and cranberries)
Many people have traumatic childhood memories of being forced to this vegetable. But Brussel sprouts can be so much tastier than those over cooked grey-green sulphuric lumps of my childhood. If you’re avoiding Brussel sprouts you should give them another go. Blanched in the microwave they should stay bright green and crunchy. Brussel sprouts are…
Seven minute recipe: vegetarian cabbage carbonara
Tonight all I ate was a big bowl of cabbage. And I loved it. Red cabbage carbonara where have you been all my life. There appear to be hundreds of cabbage carbonara recipes in the low-carb blogosphere. Here and here are the two recipes I used for inspiration. But there’s very little overlap between the low-carb (mostly meat-heavy) blogosphere…
Seven-minute recipe: carrot, lentil and mint salad
This yummy carrot, lentil and mint salad is easily made within my seven-minute time frame.
Instantly marinate tofu with this easy hack for the lazy cook
Instantly marinated tofu triangles Tofu is one of my staples. But often when I am trying to cook quickly I don’t have time to properly press and marinate the tofu and it can ends up being really tasteless. I’m rarely organised enough to prepare ahead of time or patient enough to wait an hour while my…
Perfect sautéed onions just 3 minutes in the microwave
The butter add richness and really makes these onions taste just like I spent 20 minutes sautéing them.
Seven minute recipe: Beetroot and feta salad
Roast beetroot salad is one of my favourites and I wanted a way to work the classic beetroot/feta combo into my life in a quick way.
Ten minute snack: egg in a hole grilled cheese
I was talking with a friend recently about this blog and she wasn’t sure that there were healthy meals that would be faster to make than her go to lazy meal: grilled cheese. Grilled cheese sounds so easy while something like a Mediterranean zucchini ribbon salad sounds complicated and like it would take a while to make. I…
Seven minute recipe: spicy mango salad
The inspiration for this recipe came from street hawkers in Sri Lanka who sold fresh mango with chilli and pepper.