Lite & Guilt-Free Orange & Poppy Seed Cupcakes

Chickpea, Couscous, Apricot, Feta & Mint Salad - a summery & refreshing salad as a hearty meal

Naked Chicken Fajitas Bowl (drizzled with avocado-yogurt sauce)

rainbow chard, kale & quinoa salad - calling this a healthy salad is such as cliche; how about a hearty salad?

Smoked Salmon, Avocado and Rocket (Arugula) Salad with sesame seeds toppings - a mouthful of a title, a mouthful of flavours!

Don't feel like flipping pancakes individually? This maybe the recipe for you - Upside-Down Apple Pancake.

Baked Macaroon Pears with Palm Sugar Syrup - it's a marriage of the tropics (coconut and palm sugar) and fall (pears). Let's just say it is a wonderful one!

Haloumi and Spinach Curry - palak panner with a slight twist.

Baked Pasta with Roasted Peppers and Zucchini - a clever way to sneak veggies into my diet and overcoming a meat hangover!

Smoked tofu & egg fried rice - who needs bacon or ham when smoked tofu is just as good!

Crispy Agnolotti - no pan fry nor deep frying neccessary.

"Creamy" Roast Chicken and Rice Soup - an alternative use of leftover rice to make this dairy free soup

spinach & chicken curry - a nice departure from rich and creamy restaurant styled curries we're all accustomed to.

berry smoothie with blueberries, mulberries and strawberries!

Spicy Red Lentil - soup or curry, you decide!

Crispy Squid with Garlic Mayonnaise - toss everything in a zip lock bag and you're half way there!

Cider Apple Chicken with Mushroom Sauce - creamy, buttery and garnished with butter-fried apples.

Mini Pavlovas with Pineapple and Pastry Cream

my fancy pants lemonade - sparkling strawberry limenade

Make your own strawberry syrup - a wonderful addition to your sparkling mineral water, sundae and yoghurt.

Stuffed Peppers with leftover pumpkin, quinoa & lentil salad - be resourceful of what you have!

Pumpkin, Lentils & Quinoa Salad {with roasted garlic & chilli} - you can serve it warm or cold, as a meal, side, packed lunch or picnic salad!

egg & potato curry - what the eggs lack in the yolk department, they make up for the white section - flavourful egg white infused with spices!

How to prolong the vibrancy (in taste & color) of spices?

Cranberry Almond Loaf {Made with Olive Oil}

This weekend I found myself with some apricots that looked lovely but tasted, well, not quite at their peak. Instead of tossing the slightly mealy little specimens out, I decided to incorporate them into this Apricot Cake from Recipes from an Italian Summer. Through the magic of a buttery cake batter the apricots became perfectly sweet and and creamy during the baking with just the right amount of tartness. More