My version...

Let’s just do another easy one, I thought to myself when going through one of Donna Hay’s cookbooks. It should be a simple recipe but enough of a challenge in getting it right. Well… if only I had thought about that a little better.. :) I failed, I failed miserably in recreating the original that you will see below. It seemed fairly straightforward but the trick in this particular image is not so much the recipe as that is real simple, but the angle of the photo.. You’ll see what I mean soon! In the meantime we are already on the 6th version of the Donna Hay Styling and Photography Challenge and I loved all the entries from last month! I would say spread the word.. :)

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DHSPC #5 results!

by Simone (junglefrog) on January 31, 2012 · 22 comments

in Challenges, Donna Hay Challenge, Food and Drink

Meeta's interpretation of this lovely soup

I’ve been really blown away by the results of this months challenge. We had a lot more participants this time then in december, which was no surprise, but still it makes me happy to see that you’re all having fun with the challenges! I’ve just prepared the next one today so stay tuned for more fun! Now on to this month; I’ve decided to change the ‘picking of the winner’ a little bit. What I will do, and you can see all entries below, is that I will let you choose which one you like best. Click the like under the image of your choice and the ones with the most likes will have won. It’s not really about winning so I figured that this is a better option then letting me pick my favorite.

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Onion-cheese quiche

by Simone (junglefrog) on January 30, 2012 · 38 comments

in Food and Drink, Other, Recipes

Onion quiche

Onion quiche with cheese

Very slowly but surely there is some white fluff coming out of the sky. It’s not a lot but it’s cold enough for the white stuff to remain. The day has been grey and very overcast. Certainly not ideal for taking photos so that’s a bit of a nuisance really… Yes, ladies and gentlemen by the look of things, it appears we ARE finally getting something resembling a winter. If I’m totally honest I am ready for spring. I mean, I love winter, I really do, but then I like winter to appear when it is supposed to. For me that is around Christmas. And not at the beginning of February when all I can think of is spring! But if nature has proven anything lately then it is the fact that it cannot be controlled. So winter it is then. At least it is good for getting rid of some of the mosquito-eggs (I hope).

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Lamb’s lettuce salad with feta and tomatoes

January 25, 2012
Quick and healthy..

Pin It O god no… I can hear you think… not yet another salad!! Yes, sorry, it is another salad.. Isn’t January the official salad month? The month where half the nation wants to lose a little here and a little there so turns to ‘boring’ salads? Now let me correct that immediately; salads are [...]

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Quick update

January 22, 2012
cress

You didn’t think I had vanished from the face of the earth now did you? I’ve just been incredibly swamped with work ever since the new Year started. It’s weird, wonderful and a little troubling too. (knock on wood) It could be over next month, so I am taking everything I can to make up [...]

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Quinoa, feta and walnut salad

January 14, 2012
Healthy quinoa salad with feta

It’s no big secret that I love quinoa as it has been featured here a couple of times, as you can see with this delicious quinoa salad with courgette, the quinoa salad with pomegranate and most recently the pumpkin stew. I was reading a couple of blogs on my Iphone this morning (don’t you just [...]

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Lettuce, chicory and apple salad

January 11, 2012

The indecisiveness is driving me completely insane… While I thought I had made the final decision to get rid of my studio, every time I go there for work or something else, I get sad… really sad.. So now I am starting to question my own decision. Maybe there is another way to make it [...]

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Potato cakes and cooking club #6

January 7, 2012

It’s been said before and I will say it again but sometimes the simplest things in life are also the best… Last night was our 6th session of our cooking club, with the fancy name of Kookclubbie (maybe we should come up with another name??) and it was great fun again, good cooking, lots of [...]

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Marinated chicken on a stick and living leaner

January 5, 2012

Now that the new year has started the term Living Leaner that Mona started on her blog Wisewords, takes on a bit of a double meaning for me. In fact, it takes on a triple meaning… I’m no different then anyone else around the world who wants to get fit and healthy in the new [...]

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Creamy cauliflower soup – DHSPC #5

January 3, 2012

I’ve been having this one on my desk for a while now. I know Donna Hay is known for her light and airy photographs, but really, if you go through the magazines, you will notice that there are quite a few with beautiful dark and moody images. Maybe because it is winter, but I’m quite [...]

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DHSPC #4 december results

January 2, 2012

Yes, well, what can you expect of a month such as December where everyone is running around and trying to get things organized and done before Christmas and new years.. So I realize that.. And despite all that we even have four entries for the Donna Hay Styling and Photography Challenge so hey, that’s not [...]

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