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What to do to Improve Your Diet & Eat Healthier

April 18, 2025 by Tania 3 Comments

improve your diet with ideas from my kitchen stories

I love to cook and eat a great diet. This in no way makes me an expert, but here are a few pointers on how to improve your diet and eat healthier. Many people struggle to eat well during a busy working week or as a student on a busy schedule. Food and what you…

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Irresistable Creamy Cashew, Tomato and Caper Salad

December 10, 2024 by Tania Leave a Comment

cashew and caper salad on a table

This creamy cashew, tomato, and caper salad will be very popular because it is a little like hommus but not quite. Add harlequin tomatoes, incredibly strident capers, crunchy peppery greens, and a perfect dressing. This salad goes with most BBQ’d meat or vegetables and plays well with other salads too! Creamy Cashew Base Cashew cream…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Recipe Basics, RECIPES, Salad, Side dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: cashew cream, everyday food, family BBQ salads, food for friends, holiday food, how to use capers, Salad, salad dip, salads that can be appetisers, unusual salads

Grilled Mushroom Salad, Watercress and Spanish Onion with crunchy bits.

November 17, 2024 by Tania Leave a Comment

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This kind of meaty delicious salad works for vegans, vegetarians, meat-eaters, and everyone in between. Grilled Mushroom Salad, Watercress, and Spanish onion with crunchy bits makes a great dinner or as part of a bigger feast when you need a delicious crowd pleaser. Grilled Mushrooms make the perfect Salad for everyone Mushrooms are juicy and…

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Filed Under: Barbeque, Cooking with Mushrooms, Gluten Free, Holiday, RECIPES, Salad, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: BBQ, christmas food, main course salad, Maincourses, Mushrooms, Vegan, vegetarian, warm salad

The best collection of Christmas Recipes Ever

December 16, 2023 by Tania Leave a Comment

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This IS the best collection of Christmas Recipes because it is a new fresh and easily sourced approach to making recipes for all the family. Mostly gluten-free, easily vegetarian, and perfect for all the family. With bonus desserts at the end! What you will find in this collection Fresh and delicious is what you will…

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Filed Under: Cakes and Decorating, Chicken and Poultry, Desserts, Gluten Free, Holiday, RECIPES, Salad, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: baking, Christmas, Christmas desserts, Christmas Recipes, holiday food, Make ahead Mashed potatoes, perfect mash potato, Salads, the best recipes for christmas, what salad can I cook for Christmas

Spice Roasted Cauliflower, Carrot and Olive salad

November 30, 2023 by Tania 2 Comments

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This salad is roasted and toasted and is ever so interesting in flavour and texture. Spice Roasted Cauliflower, Baby Carrot, and Olive salad, crunched up with pistachios, and touched with honey and preserved lemon. It’s exceptional. Roasting Vegetables for Salad I love roasting vegetables to make a salad. The roasting brings out the sweetness and…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Holiday, RECIPES, Salad, Side dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: Christmas Recipes, Dinner., gluten free, Maincourse, mykitchenstories, recipe, roast vegetables, Salad, side dish, summer salad, vegandishesforchristmas

Zucchini, Haloumi Salad with peas, mint, and lemon.

November 24, 2023 by Tania Leave a Comment

Grilled-Zucchini-and-Halloumi-Salad

This special salad is worthy of an occasion. Grilled Zucchini, halloumi, salad with sweet little peas make best friends. It is partly BBQ’d with all of the flavours of mint lemon and dijon it’s fresh and summery Make a salad that is NOT boring this Christmas! This salad has all the greens plus a zingy…

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Filed Under: Barbeque, Cheese, Gluten Free, Holiday, RECIPES, Salad, Side dishes, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: christmas salads, dinner, gluten free, gluten free salad, grilled halloumi, peas, Salad, zucchini recipes

Eggplant Schnitzel, tahini, and broccoli tabouli

October 30, 2022 by Tania 1 Comment

Vegan Eggplant schnitzel

Eggplant schnitzel, tahini, and broccoli tabouli is golden, crunchy and delicious and completely Vegan too. I don’t know if I am meant to tell you if it is naughty or nice. These crunchy eggplant schnitzels are very popular around my house. Love eggplant? Or do you think eggplant is a bit boring? Well, you know…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, Rice, Pasta and Grains, Salad, Special Flours, Vegan, Vegetables Tagged With: broccoli tabouleh, crumbed eggplant broccoli tabouli, dinner, Eggplant, homecooked vegan dinners, mykitchenstories dinners, vegan food, vegan scnitzels, what to cook for a vegan

Watermelon Feta Salad with Greek Oregano

September 12, 2021 by Tania 2 Comments

salad with watermelon and feta

This Watermelon Feta Salad is so simple it doesn’t really need a recipe you can just use this as a guide. It’s not an obvious combination – watermelon, and salty Greek feta – but wait until you taste the two of these together. It’s savoury and sweet all at once. Watermelon is absolutely a reminder…

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Filed Under: Dressings, RECIPES, Salad, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: easysummer salad, greece, refreshing salads, Salad, thegrecianpurveyor watermelon, watermelonfetasalad

Prawn Cocktails with black vinegar sesame dressing

December 21, 2020 by Tania 1 Comment

Prawn Cocktails with Black Vinegar and sesame

Prawns were meant to be smothered in creamy sauce and eaten as an entree (appetiser). These Prawn Cocktails with black vinegar and sesame make the perfect quick and easy starter. I am not a fan of Prawns in their shells. I don’t like to tuck into Prawns on a hot day. Sticky Prawny smelling hands…

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Filed Under: Asian, Dressings, RECIPES, Salad, Seafood, Starters and Snacks Tagged With: appetiser, black vinegar, cocktail, easy starters, eating prawns, entree, Prawns, seafood entrees, starters

Beetroot, Pumpkin Haloumi Salad

July 11, 2019 by Tania 30 Comments

Haloumi, beetroot and pumpkin salad MyKitchenStories

I love this salad. It has everything you need, Beetroot, Pumpkin and glorious squeaky warm Haloumi. This is a salad that works just as well in winter or summer . That means you can serve it warm or as a salad  or side dish with just about anything. Keep this recipe cause it will be…

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Vietnamese salad with pickled carrot

March 2, 2019 by Tania 15 Comments

Vietnamese Salad with Nuoc cham dressing

This is a crunchy fresh Vietnamese salad with a knockout dressing to suit any day of the week. Eat it at a BBQ or with a store bought roast chicken. You can’t go wrong with this one.

Filed Under: Asian, Dressings, Salad, video Tagged With: chicken side dishes, nam jim dressing, Pickled carrot, Salad, Salad for anytime, salad to go with grilled meats, side dishes, Thai Basil, the best side salad, Vietnamese flavours, Vietnamese salad

Prawn Salad, with Avocado Mango Salsa with video

November 27, 2018 by Tania 2 Comments

This awesome Prawn Salad, with Avocado Mango Salsa, is perfect for the warm weather and even better when you have a crowd around. Mango salsa and Prawns are a match made in 80’s heaven, so plan on inviting a crowd around to tuck into this amazing salad. 3 perfect ingredients together from the retro past…

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Filed Under: Dressings, Gluten Free, Holiday, RECIPES, Salad, Seafood, Vegetables, video Tagged With: Australian Recipes, easy cooking, eating prawns, food for dinner, gluten free, Party food, prawn salad recipe, Prawns, retro prawn salad, salsa, Seafood

Dressing, Satay Dressing for salads and Vegetables

July 3, 2018 by Tania 15 Comments

Satay Dressing for salads and vegetables

Satay Dressing is a thing of beauty especially one you can shake up in a jar. That is one seriously good idea for any plate of food Satay Dressing This is a gem. It pretty much makes any salad at all feel like Gado Gado.  I don’t think that’s bad …do you? I like to…

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Dressing Tahini Lemon Miso #classic

June 28, 2018 by Tania 4 Comments

Tahini emon Dressing with Pumpkin Salad

Dressings Tahini Lemon Miso Dressing should be in everyone’s recipe repertoire. It’s nutty lemon comfort food that goes with just about anything. Creamy Tahini, Miso Lemon Dressing What could be better than a creamy tahini dressing?.  One with Miso of course. The Miso gives it the lovely savoury taste and it is gorgeous with brown…

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Dressing Mustardy Balsamic

January 16, 2018 by Tania Leave a Comment

Mustardy Balsamic Dressing with salad

This is a classic dressing. Mustardy Balsamic and it will go with just about anything and make it taste wonderful Mustardy Balsamic Dressing. This dressing is a great everyday and i love it with everything. Mustard of the Dijon kind, isn’t necessarily hot but it is a great seasoning and helps the oil and vinegar…

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Dressing Jalapeno, Lime, Coriander

January 15, 2018 by Tania Leave a Comment

Jalapeno, lime, coriander dressing on tacos

A wonderful dressing can make the world of difference. This is a truly magical Dressing Jalapeno, lime, coriander it will put spark into anything you make. This is a lovely spicy dressing that will go with tacos of course but it will also go with leafy greens, chicken salads, potato, and everything else in between….

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Tania Cusack Hi, I'm Tania and this is My Kitchen Stories. I share all kinds of recipes here. Most recipes are quick and easy, just perfect for families. BUT, you could also find vegan, cakes and desserts too. Come and have a look around Read More
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