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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

Spice Roasted Cauliflower, Carrot and Olive salad

November 30, 2023 by Tania 2 Comments

Spice Roasted-Cauliflower-Baby-carrot-and-Olive-salad-

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

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

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

Tomato Bocconcini Salad with delicious crunchy bits

September 23, 2017 by Tania 10 Comments

Tomato Bocconcini salad

This is the easiest salad. Tomato Bocconcini Salad is a classic but add crunchy croutons, nuts and seeds and you’ve got a salad everyone will love. Making Tomato Bocconcini Salad with extra cunch Funny enough this salad began with left over bread. I had a family lunch and I bought a few continental rolls at…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, Salad, Side dishes Tagged With: bocconcini, bocconcini salad, cheese recipes, croutons, dinner party fare, dinner party food, Dinner Salad, easy salad, making salad dressing, Salad, tomato salad

Poached Coconut Chicken Sesame Salad amazing for dinner or lunch!

February 20, 2017 by Tania 21 Comments

Chicken Sesame Salad

Poached Coconut Chicken Sesame Salad is perfect BBQ food for parties and makes the perfect dinner or lunch. Make it anytime, it’s a great one for all the family This Poached Coconut Chicken Sesame Salad is perfect BBQ food for parties or just for dinner. It’s my new favourite, a combination of Coconut, Coriander, mint,…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, RECIPES, Salad Tagged With: BBq salad, cabbage salad, chicken salad, coconut chicken, hoiw to poach chicken in coconut, poached chicken, poached coconut chicken, poaching chicken, Salad, salad for dinner, salting cabbage for salad

Smoked Ocean Trout, Beetroot Hummus and Lemon Kale Salad

February 26, 2016 by Tania 11 Comments

Smoked Ocean Trout Salad

Smoked Ocean Trout loves this beetroot hummus and lemon kale and so will you. This is a great recipe that makes a simple starter Do you have a little book of restaurants and cafes you’d love to visit in your city or in other cities too? I do.  I look at the pictures and read…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, RECIPES, Salad, Seafood, Side dishes, Starters and Snacks Tagged With: #petunamoment, appetisers, beetroot hummus, fish crackling, Hot smoked fish, kale, Petuna, Petuna Ocean Trout, Preserved Lemons, Salad, Seafood, starters, using beetroot powder

Spice Roasted Cauliflower, Chickpea Salad

November 25, 2015 by Tania 30 Comments

Spice Roasted Cauliflower, Chickpea Salad

Spice Roasted Cauliflower , Chickpea Salad with mint smoked almonds and pepitas Have you got someone funny in your family? By funny I mean sometimes predictable, always quirky and that person that just makes you roll your eyes and chuckle because that’s what family do. My sister is creative and arty and is a great…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, RECIPES, Salad, Vegan Tagged With: Cauliflower, chickpeas, roasted cauliflower, Salad, side dishes, Vegan, vegetarian, vegetarian dishes, warm salad

Pumpkin, Haloumi Salad with Baby Kale

October 7, 2015 by Tania 13 Comments

Pumpkin , Haloumi Salad with baby Kale

Pumpkin, Haloumi Salad with Baby Kale No matter how I try I can’t get Skater to like roast potatoes. It probably is a blessing in disguise because I can’t resist them. Just the thought of roast potatoes is enough to prompt me to turn on the oven. Instead, a piece of pumpkin fell out of…

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Filed Under: Cheese, Gluten Free, RECIPES, Salad, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: cheese, Dinner., Easy side dishes, Haloumi, lunch, Pumpkin, Salad, Seasonal ingredients, The best Roast Pumpkin Salad, vegetarian

Roasted Pumpkin Hummus with Spiced Tuna

November 10, 2014 by Tania 14 Comments

Pumpkin Hummus

  I know that at this time of the year the U.S goes Pumpkin mad. Pumpkin in pies, muffins, pancakes , scones , cookies and pancakes, if you didn’t love it you’d be quite sick of it by now, I would imagine. I personally can’t get enough pumpkin but we here in Australia, rarely use…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, Seafood, Small Bites/ Party Food, Vegetables and Vegetarian Tagged With: dip, Hommus, Pumpkin hommus, Pumpkin salad, Recipes, Salad, Share entree, Spiced Tuna, starters, vegetables

Roasted Carrots, Goat Cheese and Buckwheat

November 2, 2014 by Tania 23 Comments

It’s officially November and you can panic now, Chrsitmas is around the corner. In my kitchen this month, I’ve got a whole kilogram log ( 2.2lbs) of goat cheese. Amongst other things I made a lovely Roasted Baby Carrot, Tomato and Buckwheat salad with goat cheese and buttermilk, and ate it with very impressively baby Kale…

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Filed Under: Cheese, RECIPES, Salad Tagged With: Bioglan, cheese, cooking with cheese, Goat cheese, in my kitchen, November. 14, Recipes, Roasted baby carrots, Salad, summer food, vegetarian entree

Fennel, Blood Orange and Crisp Chilli Peperilli Salad

October 15, 2014 by Tania 28 Comments

Chilli peperilli salad with Fennel salad

Fennel, Blood Orange and Crisp Chilli Peperilli Salad with Oliving by Hans I have to admit that I love Salami and Chorizo and Kransky and all manner of small goods. I don’t often use or serve them as much as I’d like because of the amount of saturated fat that is is involved. And you know…

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Filed Under: RECIPES, reviews, Salad Tagged With: blood orange, cooking with salami, easy salads, fennel, fennel salad, Oliving by hans, peperilli, Salad, salami salad, small goods made using olive oil

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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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