Slimmer dinner

Quinoa avocado salad

A healthy choice for a take-away lunch, this salad combines the creamyness of the avocado with the crunchyness of the celery, cucumber and radishes, while completing the picture with the zing of the cherry tomatoes and the interesting texture of the quinoa seeds.

Peas purée with oven cooked salmon

Plain and simple. This is far from being a complicated recipe. I am actually wondering how can it get complicated? The answer – it can’t, because it is a fast and simple recipe that’s suitable for a light dinner as well as part of a lunch meal.

Salmon fish soup

I’ve always wanted to buy a whole salmon and to fillet it myself, then freeze the meat. And 2 weeks ago I did it! bought a 3kg salmon, portioned it into fillet bags and was left with a spine, tail and head… which obviously I didn’t throw away! I divided […]

Grilled trout with steamed potatoes

When it comes to fish or seafood, I am the first in line to get that! And this time, while I was shopping, I saw these pretty small trouts with their clear eyes and contrasting dots on their backs and I knew right away they were freshly caught and very […]

Green beans with tomato-garlic sauce

Back down to memory lane with this one. This is a dish my mum is preparing at home and we used to eat it in the summer when the new beans would give their first harvest to us. It’s a very simple and light recipe and the change that I […]

Tuna salad

I am sure this happened to you as well – coming home, no cooked food left and no energy to do the groceries at that hour. I find it useful to have some cans of tuna in brine, olives, corn, green peas, and kidney beans in the pantry – for […]

Summer salad

I’m totally in love with kidney beans and I take advantage of every occasion I can get to add them to the dishes I’m preparing. This time it’s a salad and a pretty interesting one as it combines the softness of avocado with the sweet acidity of the tomatoes and […]