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Courgette fritters with tomato and red pepper salsa
This fritter recipe is an idea my foodie friend Ruth sent my way some time ago with the littlies in mind. The Girl gave them a bit of a nudge first time I made them but turned her fussy little nose up...
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Mini-me meal…soft-serve banana and berry icecream
These hot summer days beg a refreshing treat from time to time. I’m not completely averse to sweet treats for the littlies, everything in moderation is my mantra, but I do like to keep the sugar levels...
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Mini-me meal…salmon and quinoa filo parcels
I try not to attempt a new Mini-me recipe unless I’ve got something else on hand in the more-than-likely outcome that The Girl outright rejects my efforts. In this case I had leftovers of her all-time...
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Coconut, almond and tahini cookies
We’re completely addicted to tahini in our household. Our weekly rate of consumption has diminished only slightly in the last week or so after I discovered I was buying a 600gm jar at each weekly...
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Orange, almond & blueberry muffins
I think we all know that muffins are hiding behind a very tenuous guise of being a healthy baked option. Let’s be honest here. For all intents and purposes they’re mini-cakes that have somehow acquired...
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Tomato & garlic couscous
This is another fantastic mid-week meal that I regularly serve up. It’s jam-packed with cherry tomatoes, more garlic than you can shake a stick at and is very quick and easy to put together. The...
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Mini-me meal…Israeli couscous with a tomato, vegetable sauce
I feel (hope) that Thea has reached the peak of toddler-pickiness. Dinnertimes have been plaguing me the last few weeks as she gets more and more belligerent about what she will and won’t eat, often...
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Frittata filo pies
We spent most of Easter looking after our own gluttonous whims and as luck would have it Thea even joined in on some rather more exotic fare than usual, much to my satisfaction. I experimented a little...
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Raw chocolate bars with hazelnuts, coconut and vanilla
Finding delicious, nutritious convenience snacks has been one of the most confounding things when it comes to feeding my toddler. There’s very little out there which doesn’t make me recoil in horror at...
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Oaty, nutty bites
I feel like I’m perpetually on a quest to find nutritious snacks to throw into Thea’s lunchbox which don’t cost the earth and won’t put her teeth into the line of sugary fire that most store-bought...
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Apple & almond custard with yoghurt & berry coulis
Dauntingly I’ve found myself with quite the backlog of recipes to post. My rather unscripted process is to cook something new with a vague thought in the back of my mind that it might turn out to be...
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