Quinoa Tabouleh

    Tabouleh is a Lebanese dish that is sometimes classed as a salad, and goes by a variation of spellings – tabouleh, tabbouleh, tabouli, tabbouli (….and my spellchecker has rejected all these options). This dish is traditionally made with bulgur wheat, but you can use couscous too, and as I have discovered for the […]

Cranberry and Herb Couscous Salad

      This is a very tasty salad that is quick to prepare. The cranberries give it a little extra taste and texture boost, and the addition of these was Mum’s invention. We have found that this salad combines very well with left over roast vegetables. The ingredients and preparation are very similar to […]

A few Tips and Theories

Recipes such as Tabouleh call for lots of lemon juice. To make squeezing lots of juice easy and to keep pips out of the juice, Mum has a handy tip. She keeps a piece of netting in the kitchen drawer. Mum’s LEMON JUICING TIP: wrap a lemon half in a piece of netting and squeeze. […]