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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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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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Greek salad

by Simone (junglefrog) on October 5, 2011 · 24 comments

in Appetizer, Food and Drink, Healthy, Recipes, Salads, Vegetarian

Greek salad

Every single time we go to Greece the very first meal I order is a Greek salad. There is nothing better then the taste of those gorgeous tomatoes combined with the salty feta and the juicy cucumbers. Yes, even the cucumbers taste better in Greece! And then enjoying that while the only other sounds are [...]

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Orzo with feta, tomatoes and dill

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 20, 2011 · 28 comments

in Food and Drink, Healthy, Recipes, Salads, weightloss

Orzo salad with feta and tomatoes

Now you probably thought I would continue posting recipes for utterly decadent and unhealthy chocolate cakes, right? But no… sorry to disappoint; it’s time to get healthy again! Talking of which I have a question for all of you… do you have any really good and really really fast recipes that you use for all [...]

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I was invited by the lovely Sanjeeta from Lite Bite to make a guestpost for her theme of Awesome Food Bloggers Healthy Living Secrets… I think it’s a brilliant idea to ask bloggers on how to stay fit, because as a group we are definitely food lovers so a little healthy advice never hurts. Now [...]

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Watermelon salad – madness part 2

by Simone (junglefrog) on June 23, 2011 · 27 comments

in Food and Drink, Recipes, Salads, Vegetarian

watermelon salad

Do you need sunglasses yet? Sorry, I just love this photo and it’s probably wrong for whatever gazillion color reason but I couldn’t resist posting it to make sure you were all wide awake… See the thing with these Plate to Page people is that they are never satisfied… Seriously… I post my watermelon icecream [...]

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Green peas with feta

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 23, 2010 · 27 comments

in Food and Drink, Recipes, Salads

I know there have been several occassions that I complained to you about my weight and the eternal struggle to get back to a healthy weight. Well, let me tell you that I am still nowhere near that goal at this point in time. It appears that I just love food too much, but as [...]

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Pea soup

by Simone (junglefrog) on February 10, 2010 · 27 comments

in Food and Drink, Recipes, Soups

I have been posting a lot of soup recipes lately now haven’t I? Probably because a good soup is comforting, warming and – not unimportantly – it is also very quick to make. So I love trying out new soup recipes for lunch. Especially now that the weather seems to go back into full wintermode [...]

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Courgette-feta ‘cookies’

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 17, 2009 · 18 comments

in Food and Drink, Recipes

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You know how you can sometimes see a photo of a certain dish in a magazine and you think ‘yes! That is going to be de-li-cious!!’ and then you go out and make it and are… well, hmmm, slightly disappointed. That happened to me today for my lunchdish of courgette feta cookies. I think I [...]

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Raspberry goatcheese salad

by Simone (junglefrog) on July 8, 2009 · 11 comments

in Food and Drink, Recipes, Salads

Raspberry goatcheese salad

There is something about salads that I just cannot resist. They are so versatile and you could literally make a different salad everyday and never make the same one in your life (well, not sure if that is an actual fact, but it feels like that to me anyway!) plus I also find that it [...]

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Smoked chicken & feta quiche

by Simone (junglefrog) on June 13, 2009 · 7 comments

in Current Affairs, Recipes

Smoked chicken and feta quiche

After having baked clafoutis today I figured the oven could use a little more exercise. I haven’t had a lot of time to do any cooking lately so I was quite pleased to have a weekend of joy in the kitchen. The weather was gorgeous today too, so in between baking and checking how things [...]

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