Sundried Tomato, Bean & Lentil Salad

Maybe it's because summer is on its way out (so long, sayonara and all that) or perhaps I'm just entering a renewed phase of healthy eating (*snort*), but lately I've been craving veggie laden dishes. Beans, corn, beetroot, butternut, tomatoes, zucchini and more tomatoes are the order of the day and I'm just looking for excuses to use them. Or eat them as is. Raw, cooked, roasted, mashed or boiled. Actually scrap the last one, boiled is almost never a winner, is it? 

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Coffee Peanut Butter Granola

 

Ever wish you could just press a button and instantly come down with a case of the heebie-jeebies (or whatever other ailment sounds plausible)? Perhaps you know you have to face someone the next day that you just can't bear to do, you might have an all-important test coming up or even a tough deadline at work. And sometimes you find yourself in such a surreal situation that you honestly don't know if you should run away or just laugh.

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Mango, Peanut & Tatsoi Stir Fry

One of my favourite things about summer (bar the sorbets, the cocktails and the long daylight hours) is the wide range of fresh fruits available in stores. I mean have you had a look at the fresh produce aisle recently? From sweet white grapes to tart plums, papaya, the first of the figs (oh the heavenly smell!), litchis, passionfruit, apricots, exotically perfumed mangoes and the last of the watermelons. 

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