Good Food made Easy and Fast
My quick and easy go-to lunch of potato, avocado and salad plate, is more of a put together meal than a recipe. This is all about convenience and nutrition – it is so quick and easy to make, and utterly delicious. The potatoes are sprinkled with chives, I use fresh when I have them, and…
Wham, bam, thank you mam, this Thai Sweet Chilli Beef Bowl is packed with flavour and a very satisfying meal. Meals that use mince make life easy. This bowl is topped with loads of fresh coriander / cilantro galore, fresh red chillies, and dry roasted cashews, so good! Although I add broccoli to this dish,…
Raspberry and Pomegranate Smoothie is a divinely delicious thick pink smoothie that is dairy-free, rich and creamy with a lovely natural sweetness. It contains a solid whack of fibre and is jam-packed with phytonutrients and antioxidants from the raspberries which are also regarded as anti-inflammatory. The flax seeds provide daily requirements of omega 3’s and…
If you love carob, and want a smoothie that tastes like a creamy liquid carob chocolate – this carob smoothie is perfect. It is dairy-free and although it contains no added sugar, it is naturally sweet from the maca powder, carob power and natural sweetener in the protein powder. This Carob Smoothie gets a great…
It’s official, I am addicted to this Veggie Mexican Bowl with Pumpkin and Squash and have been consuming it quite a lot lately. One of the clean eating programs I was following didn’t allow sweet potato and corn, so I traded those out for pumpkin and yellow squash and found I enjoyed it every bit…
You’d never know this super fast and easy Creamy Strawberry Ice-Cream wasn’t made with loads of cream and was in fact dairy free made with a base of cashew nuts and frozen strawberries. It is great eaten immediately after blending with a soft serve texture or it is also beautiful after being frozen for a…
This is a super quick and easy Acai Bowl that is adapted from a Meghan Markle recipe. It is so refreshing in warmer months and makes you feel good. Super Quick and Easy Acai Bowl Print Serves 2 Author: www.myfoodtemple.com Serves: 2 Ingredients 2 packets frozen Acai (from your supermarket) ⅔rd cup of almond…
What is great about these Beef Spinach and Feta Rissoles besides the delicious flavour, is that they are filled with fresh parsley and spinach. But instead of detracting from the flavour, it amplifies them into truly tasty morsels and increases their health benefits. Even those hardened meat eaters who want a plate of meat, one…
There are some dishes you can eat night after night and still always look forward to them – Vegetarian Mexican Bowl with Sweet Potato is one of them. Mexican spices and fresh coriander leaves temper perfectly with roasted sweet potato and charred corn. Guacamole and egg and another dimension leading to a delicious dance of…
Quick and easy Greek lemon chicken with potatoes is the best recipe for a quick after work dinner or to spoil your guests. This Greek chicken recipe uses boneless chicken thigh fillets with skin on. The chicken is oven roasted in lemon garlic sauce with potatoes and the tangy lemon garlic sauce is amazing. It…
If you are looking for the best tasting onion chutney that has only four ingredients and takes 5 minutes to cook, you have come to the right place. This delicious cumin laden chutney lifts pappadums and indian pastries into something wonderfully memorable. This recipe is designed to be super fast and super easy to make…
This no-cook easy and fast hollandaise sauce is a beautiful silky texture and rich yellow colour with a slight tang of lemon. It is absolutely delicious over vegetables, chicken, toast or eggs. I’ve poured it over eggs to make Eggs Benedict in the picture above. I usually poach the eggs, but in this case, I…
I have been asked for my Mexican Hasselback Chicken recipe quite a few times now, so I thought I would finally get it up here online. If you like your chicken quick, easy and delicious, then this hasselback chicken recipe is perfect for you! A few minutes to blend the spices, one minute to cut…
This is a no-cook super easy, quick tomato sauce perfect for pasta, burgers, sausage rolls, steak, or sausages. It is delicious cold or hot. Made with chopped tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, sauteed onion and herbs, it is natural and lip smacking gorgeous. How do I know? Well, for starters, I can eat it cold by the…
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These Honey Soy Chicken Shish Kebobs are sticky, sweet, flavoursome, juicy, and everything you want in a grilled chicken kebob recipe – delicious! I have already made them twice this week. The beauty of these is that they are so easy and quick to prepare. I just cut the chicken into bite size pieces and…
Creamy spinach dip in a cobb loaf tastes amazing and is always a crowd pleaser. Nobody can resist a good warm spinach dip served in a toasty cobb loaf – especially me! It is an easy, quick and super yummy dip that tastes amazing served straight from the oven. Alternatively, you can mix the dip…
Everybody loves a great Queso Dip (otherwise known as a warm Mexican Cheese Dip). This Queso Dip recipe is the best – warm, delicious, moreish and a true party pleaser. It is quick and easy to make, and can be made the day before and heated just before serving. I love serving it with plain…
What I love about this Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken is that it is quick, easy and so tasty – scrumptious actually. The smoky paprika, the touch of chilli, fresh garlic and zucchini blend beautifully with the butter to encase the chicken breast with so much flavor it practically sings on the tongue – delicious! I…
Chicken Karaage is Japanese deep fried chicken – a truly delicious crispy chicken recipe. The chicken is juicy, tender and flavorsome on the inside, and fantastically crispy on the outside with the typical Karaage aged-look finish. I love it hot straight out of the fryer, but it also tastes good cold for a picnic or…
Short of time? Need a super delicious fast easy recipe that everyone will love? I’ve been making this microwave baked potato for about 20 years now and it is still one of my favourites. Although I love baking a potato in its jacket, I am sometimes simply too busy. I often only have 10-20 minutes…
This vegetarian shepherds pie is a great winter comfort food because it’s delicious, full of vitamins, and filling. This recipe makes 8 servings. I love making a big batch so I can portion out individual servings and put them into the fridge or glass containers to freeze. There is nothing better than getting home after…
Spiralised zucchini noodles topped with shiny home made green basil pesto and a smack of grated parmesan topped with a few extra fresh basil leaves is lip smackingly delicious. You will want more. I even tested this gorgeous vegetarian dish on a carb loving meat eater – and he loved it. Zucchini is also called…
Homemade Basil Pesto is great to have in a jar to add to sandwiches, toasties, turkish bread melts, or just about anything. I especially love it with spaghetti and also with zucchini pasta – delicious. Basil is known to be anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, is rich in anti-oxidants, protects the body from free radicals, has anti-ageing properties,…
I made this very tasty Cream of Cauliflower soup last night for dinner. It is full of flavour and a real favourite – will be having it for lunch again tomorrow. I always just want to go back for seconds because it tastes so good – yes, its a little moreish. Creamy cauliflower is hard…
In the last few days, I made the decision to cut out all refined sugars from my diet for a while and re-assess after a period. Of course any time a common ingredient is cut from ones diet, everything turns to shambles – what the %^&* am I going to eat now? The fact that…
Sometimes the simplest dishes are the best – Avocado and Tomato on Toasted Turkish Bread is the perfect example of a quick, delicious and super easy lunch. Actually, I have also sometimes have it for breakfast as well, but it is generally my favourite weekend lunch. It tastes so fresh and the spread of thick…
These chocolate coconut bliss balls are my absolute favourite and a perfect delicious treat. The marriage of condensed milk with cacao, biscuits and coconut is so good it will be around forever (and has been). My mum used to make them when I was a kid and I have just added some maca powder, maple…
The first time I made almond milk, I wondered why it took me so long to get around to just doing it. There is no comparison between the taste of true homemade almond milk and the watered down versions with additives at the store. I love the pure whiteness and creamy taste of homemade almond…
My mouth starts to water when I think about having a Chicken Avocado and Cheese Melt on toasted turkish bread. There’s something about a long weekend that makes me want to be extra naughty with food – actually, that sounds bad, but come on, you know what I mean. I want to indulge! The Chicken…
This is my go-to daily fresh vegetable based juice. It tastes nice and fresh with the celery shining through bright and uplifting, the lemon giving the tiniest smidgen of tang and the orange giving a touch of sweetness. I go through phases where I have it every morning and it sets me up for the day. …
Smoky Paprika Hasselback Chicken with Spinach and Ricotta will make your taste buds love you. Oh, and it is waistline friendly – woo hoo! Basically, I think of it as a way to make chicken breast delicious and moist for those who normally prefer chicken thighs – that’s me folks. Yes, I am one of…
This Golden Haloumi Salad is just delicious. The lightly pan fried haloumi with the beautiful golden egg yolks, fire roasted capsicum and lettuces is super scrumptious combination. I am salivating as I write this. It is truly a main meal in itself, although you could divide it into three and serve it as a yummy…
Lately, I’ve been on a juice blitz juicing everything under the sun – well almost. Actually, mostly vegetables with just a touch of fruit like this King Kale juice. Kale houses a pack of nutrients including iron, calcium, vitamin A, C and K. It taste best mixed with a variety of other ingredients. I’ve been…
Yes, this Creamy Dreamy Strawberry Smoothie is non-dairy and non-soy, but tastes so creamy you’d never know it. I am a sucker for a creamy smoothie, especially where strawberries are involved, and I need my smoothie to pack a nutritional punch. This strawberry smoothie really kills it on all angles. I use pure natural maple…
This is what I drink when I want a milkshake without milk. I often call it a Choc Maca Shake, but in reality, it is a smoothie. This delicious Chocolate Maca Smoothie is packed with the goodness of golden flax flakes, maca powder, natural cocoa and banana. It has what I can only describe as…
If it weren’t for my own research and experiments with natural and processed foods, I would still be on inhaled steroids for asthma today. The inhaled steroids worked a treat, but destroyed my voice in the process. At the time I thought ‘how can I ever speak at a meeting, event, or sound normal again?’ …
I can be a real BBQ snob. This best hamburger pattie ever (seriously) is the only one I love because it jammed full of onion, parsley, worcestershire sauce, garlic, tabasco and good ole tomato sauce. A truly delicious hamburger pattie can be eaten on its own, and that is how I often eat this one….
I don’t eat fish (except whiting), weird, I know. So I have to get my omega 3’s from somewhere. Thank goodness for Golden Flax Flakes, little golden flakes of deliciousness packed with omega 3’s. Sometimes in the morning or afternoon (like most people) I feel like a bite sized bit of sweetness, and this is…
Two words come to mind when I make this Thai Red Curry with vegetables: creamy and divine. For the last few years I’ve been making Thai Red Curry with chicken to satisfy the desires of those who shall remain nameless. But since I decided to do a vegetarian stint, it was time to start doing…
I feel like I could maybe get a little tipsy on this dish. The bourbon shines through and the whole saucy stickiness of the dish just makes me go “oooh”. When Bourbon Chicken comes out of the oven it feels like the flavour train just came to pick me up. Once upon a time getting…
If there is such a thing as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, this Avocado Feta and Vegetable Salad is it. It is loaded with some of the best. most colourful and tastiest healthiest foods in life – avocado, carrot, broccoli, capsicum, spinach, rocket, onion, tomatoes. The only way you can…
Home made fast food is fun and hits the sweet spot. This is a favorite home-made fast food pizza. I make this dish when I want a yummy crispy colourful pizza on the table in fifteen minutes with some gooey and good stuff on it. With some pita bread handy, fresh spinach, mixed lettuce and…
This crunchy cabbage salad is so good it makes me salivate. There’s something about delicious toasted almond slivers with crunchy sweet cabbage slivers and a smattering of sunflower oil, brown sugar and vinegar that makes my taste buds go completely insane. I love this salad more than chocolate. The fact that it consists primarily of…
Donna Hay’s Lime and Lemongrass Chicken is perfect. Loaded with fresh kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, chilli and coconut milk, this dish screams ‘eat me’. Yes, to some it may sound a little sexy, and truth be told, it is. It is rare to find a dish that is so rich and creamy, but at the…
One of the reasons I created this website, was to compile a food temple of fast, easy, tasty recipes and to worship delicious divine good food. I love it! Flavour is extremely important. I like my meals packed with it. Then there’s health. I find when I am eating well, I am clear headed,…