Cooking Session 26
Roast Pumpkin Feta Salad With Quinoa + Beetroot Burger
A quick newsletter today to share a fresh new salad recipe, one that will appeal to the north and south hemispheres as it is hearty with pumpkin (which is going nuts in the northern hemisphere in the lead up to Halloween) and it is light and fresh which is perfect for our Spring weather down under.
As always, Thank you for your continued support and all your wonderful emails/messages telling me how adventurous you are getting with meal prepping. Please keep cooking and don't forget to SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER with your friends.Â
ROAST PUMPKIN SALAD WITH QUINOA, FETA & POMEGRANATEÂ Â (gluten free)
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What is the best thing to make from a tray of roasted pumpkin? A quick, juicy, lip-smackingly delicious and super healthy salad! Caramelized cubes of pumpkin are tossed with protein-packed quinoa and peppery greens. Bursts of sweet pomegranate seeds and salty feta works brilliantly with the simplest of classic salad dressings - lemon and olive oil!
This salad is a complete meal - fiber, protein, good fats and carbs. Meal preps really well (roast a big tray of pumpkin, cook some quinoa aaaaannndd DONE!). I have been cooking this for work lunches every other week. 25-minute salads are the best!!
CHOCOLATE & ALMOND BUTTER COOKIESÂ (vegan)
Deliciously nutty dark chocolate cookies are always a hit! BONUS points if they are vegan and nobody notices (because they smell and taste buttery and not coconutty!)
You are going to LOVE my 8-ingredient Vegan Choc Cookies. In fact, you could eat the cookie dough raw .. it is not only delicious but totally safe to do so. I am baking a batch right now. You should too!
Have you watched The Bear?
I recently watched The Bear (watch trailer)Â on Disney. Correction ... I binged it! Over two nights, staying up until 2 am. It was really good!
It is a brilliant story of an award-winning, Noma trained, dynamic young chef working at the best restaurant in the world who has to give it all up after he inherits his brother's run-down sandwich shop. I loved the chaos and energy of the show. The acting was brilliant and the ensemble cast of quirky, food-loving misfits really works a treat. Give it a try!
And don't forget to join my little cooking club, we are getting ready to cook from Hetty Mckinnon's new cookbook Tenderheart in November.
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Kitchen Sense
Polish your copperware!
Do you have a favourite copper pot? Looking a bit tired? Squeeze some ketchup on it and rub generously with a paper towel. Rinse with warm water, wipe dry. Really brightens it up and refreshes it.
 Food In Prose
"I met a girl at a party and she gave me a pirate pop-gun and a recipe for bagels, and then she was deported. All of this is true.
This is her bagel recipe: she lives in Paris now, with her husband (to whom the pop-gun belonged), and a kitten called Smitten, and a lemon tree, and we make bread together on Skype, flour drifting joyfully across the camera, so that from Paris, it looks as if London is in the midst of a blizzard. And vice versa."
~ Ella Risbridger (Midnight Chicken and other recipes worth living for)
Weather is finally warming up .. weekend lunches should be packed and enjoyed at the park, in your back garden or down by the beach. One of the best picnic lunches to make right now is a Beetroot Burger!
OMG, have you tried one? It is delicious, vegan and gluten-free and packed with so much flavour and goodness. Make a batch, chop a salad, grab some burger buns and find yourself a great picnic spot this weekend! Perfection :)
