Author: Shavana von der Aue
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10 minute Almond Cookies
These cookies take 10 minutes to whip together and a further 10-15 minutes in the oven (depending on how flat or thick you make them). They are deliciously yummy and a standard favourite in our house! Additionally they’re vegan 🙂 All you have to do is mix all ingredients together with your hands, roll into…
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Plum Compote
Sometime I buy plums which look nice but don’t end up having a great texture or a big amount of flavour. When this happens, I like to stew them with as little effort as possible, resulting in maximum flavour! These are great served with plain, natural yoghurt, whipped cream or over ice cream. The best…
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Sicilian Eggplant
This eggplant dish is so yummy and can be used in many ways: On top of pasta, heaped onto crusty pieces of baguette, sourdough or ciabatta (bake the bread in the oven with olive oil beforehand for extra deliciousness). You can serve it with couscous and toasted, slivered almond pieces or else eat it with…
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Power Smoothie
With almost 20g of protein per serving, this smoothie is full of goodness and will also leave you feeling full! Particularly good after a workout😊 Serves 2 150g oat milk 10g flaxseed 10g chia seeds 20g cashew or almond butter 20g pumpkin seeds 60g oats 10g raw cocoa powder 235g skyr or Greek Joghurt 25g…
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Cranberry Beef Ragout
I love the combination of tender beef with a fruity sauce. Plums, orange, dates and cranberries are all great examples of pairing matches that compliment the beef excellently. Today I settled on cranberries. The beef is slow cooked and harmonised perfectly with the rich tomatoey, cranberry infused sauce. I served the sauce with pasta but…
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Lemon Tuna Pasta
This dish is fast and easy. It has a delicious lemon creaminess about it which contrasts nicely with the tuna. You’ll find yourself going back to this recipe again and again as it can basically be prepared while the water for your pasta is on the stove, heating up. I like to use farfalle pasta…
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Porridge for One
Just a simple recipe for porridge for one. It makes a simple bowl-full, if you’re very hungry then definitely double the recipe! I like the creaminess the yoghurt adds to the final dish and it is also great in cooling down the porridge so that you can eat it straight away. Cocoa nibs are high…
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Red Pepper Pan
This is another quick fry up in one pan. It’s packed with taste and the red peppers even get a nice char on them if you make sure the pan is good and hot when you’re tossing them around the pan. Serve with my recipe for date dip and sourdough bread for an easy dinner…
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Fast Beans
You might have noticed that I like cooking one-pan dishes a lot. They’re fast, uncomplicated, full of flavour and (almost most importantly): The clean-up is kept to a bare minimum. This is a mix between baked beans and shakshuka. It‘s a healthy way to fill anyone, serve with a simple green salad if you have…
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Halloumi Protein Pan
A great recipe for anyone who can or can not cook well! There’s no skill whatsoever required, the flavour packs a real punch and there’s a good 50g of protein in the meal. Eat as is or serve with sourdough bread. This meal is so quick and will leave you planning to buy the ingredients…
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Date Dip
This is a fantastic recipe for anyone who loves to spread thick layers of creamy dip on top of freshly homemade bread from the best bakery you know. Sourdough if possible! It’s otherwise great served on the side of roasted veges with a fresh, green salad on the side. I promise it will become one…
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Lamb for dinner
This one might be hard to decipher from the photo but it is YUM-MY so I’ll break it up for you: Autumn slow cooked lamb, roasted pumpkin and mushrooms with melted feta pieces, orange and coriander cous-cous. This was dinner tonight and no one (!) was disappointed! I know the lamb takes a bit longer…
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Orange Bean Salad
This is one of those fantastic salads with hardly any ingredients, lots of flavour and also a good amount of protein. I’ve left it vegan in this version but you can easily sprinkle with feta or cottage cheese to up your protein intake. Or adding a can of tuna (drained) can also be a fantastic…
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Quinoa Risotto
I didn’t have any risotto rice in the pantry today but it seemed like one of those days where a comforting, warm rice dish would be a good idea for dinner. I decided to improvise and experiment a little with things I did have: Quinoa, white beans, chickpeas, Parmesan. I settled on a risotto-like dish,…
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Cinnamon Pumpkin Cake
This will most definitely be the fluffiest most moist cake you’ve ever eaten – I promise! And it is so easy to make! Don’t be put off by the making of the pumpkin puree – you can just ignore the pumpkin while it’s in the oven and then scoop the flesh out afterwards – easy…
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After School Eggs
This is one of my go-to dishes on the days my teenagers tell me in the morning that they won’t be home to eat lunch after school…and then suddenly they change their plans and both of them are standing in the kitchen, starving and hoping for a really yummy meal…😅 Whack the pan on the…
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One Bowl Choc Dessert Cake
I love one bowl cakes where you don’t have to plan anything in advance, the butter can be used straight from the fridge and the only clean up is a bowl and a couple of spoons. This cake has a dense, moist crumb. It’s not light and fluffy, the crumbs stick together because of the…
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Banana-Choc-Blueberry Smoothie
This one is for my daughter Mia, who loves bananas, loves chocolate and loves any smoothie that is not green! She will still drink the green ones I make her but her eyes truly light up if she finds herself with a dessert smoothie in her hand – understandably ☺️. This a good alternative for…
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Dry Chilli Fry
This is another one of those perfect weeknight meals that is easy to put together and leaves everyone feeling satisfied. It’s a drier version of chilli con carne, there are no tomatoes in it but there’s still the sweetness from the tomato paste and the small addition of sugar. I‘m only including the recipe for…
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Veg and Meatball Tray Bake
This is probably not the most „photo-pretty“ dish but the combined flavours pack a real punch, it’s filled with deliciously succulent eggplant and always leaves the kids particularly happy. I’ve used whatever vegetables I had in the fridge here, so feel free to experiment with whatever takes your fancy! Be careful not to cook the…
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Plums for Breakfast
My son loves to eat this version of sticky plums topped with semi-crisped oats for breakfast, swimming in a pool of cream (cold, straight from the fridge and not whipped). I feel the same and will eat it at any time of the day! It’s not quite a crumble as I like the oats to…
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Figs for One
This dish is SO easy and SO unbelievably delicious. It’s often the dishes with the least ingredients that become my favourites! You could share this with someone but it wouldn’t at all be my recommendation. Buy some sourdough bread and use it to soak up the delicious juices that will be on the bottom of…
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Omelette for One
There’s nothing easier than whipping up an omelette for myself, or for anyone in the family, when I need something quick, nutritious and delicious. There is however an exact science behind cooking eggs. Cooked eggs should be soft, silky, light in texture. An omelette should be cooked for only a very short amount of time…
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Fluffiest Blueberry Muffins
I‘m not the biggest muffin fan, however I do absolutely love a good blueberry muffin. The blueberry to muffin ration needs to be really high in my opinion. The dough should come out light, fluffy and not too sweet so that the sugar crust on top can really work it’s sweet magic. I think this…
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Tuna Salad
I personally find this salad only semi-exciting but everyone in my house loves it and I’ll admit, it’s a great thing to have in the fridge to snack on by itself or enjoy on sourdough as lunch or a quick bite. It‘s fast to put together and needs to be seasoned lots while tasting frequently…
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Mama‘s Muesli
My kids love homemade muesli/granola, whatever you want to call it. Every week or so I whip up a baking tray full of different kind of oats, nuts and dried fruit and keep it stored in a tin container so that the kids and my husband can have it for breakfast with creamy yoghurt and…
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Raspberry Treat
This smoothie is my son‘s go to for after the gym. Although I don’t put protein powder in mine, you could follow in his footsteps and add some to yours! If you have time, prepare the night before by mixing everything together EXCEPT for the frozen berries! This will give the oats, chia and flaxseed…
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Everyday Spinach Smoothie
It’s always good to have a go-to smoothie which you can throw together in a couple of minutes and you know you’re getting a good serving of greens into your day. This one is super simple, there’s nothing to it and the ingredients are pretty standard. I like mine to be more on the sour…
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Blueberry Joghurt Drops
There were blueberries in our kitchen today that were not old enough to warrant being thrown out but definitely didn’t have the firmness needed to be eaten raw. Easy solution: They needed to be baked or cooked. I didn’t feel like separating eggs and whipping egg whites, so I decided to make my joghurt drops…
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Miso Beets Salad
This dish probably doesn’t look or sound all that interesting but it’s the simplicity of it which makes it so superb. There are few ingredients which means even more attention needs to be paid when prepping them and especially with the seasoning. In my house this salad serves 1 person for dinner, as a side…
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Zucchini Lemon Tagliatelle
We’re not big zucchini fans in my house. I still cook and bake with it but it’s never greeted particularly warmly at the dinner table. Our weekly farmers market had beautiful organic zucchinis on the weekend so I bought two and decided to find a way to incorporate them into a pasta dish which made…
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Salted Chocolate-Nut Slice
I like it best when slices like these are slightly salty, hence the name. Everything is easy to make, very little to no prep, you will ideally need a mixer to cut the dates and nuts but alternatively you can do this by hand. I love to have this slice all chopped up and kept…
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Smoked Tofu with Pak Choi
I love tofu but I’m never really sure how healthy it is. On the one hand it’s a great meat substitute, on the other hand it is highly processed. In any case I try not to cook with it too often and always go for the organic tofu when I do buy it. This is…
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Lazy Scones
My lazy scones are „lazy“ because they don’t need to be rolled, nothing needs to be prepped beforehand, the jam is not jam but marinated fruit and the clotted cream needs nothing done to it except for placing a long handled spoon in it to serve. The oven will should be set very high to…
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Mia’s Orange Beef
Mia has been away in Barcelona for the past two weeks and I knew she’d be starving for a good meal when she returned home! I spent awhile thinking about what she might have missed in particular and decided that a good combination of two of her favourite ingredients (oranges and beef fillet) might be…
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Beans’s Cheesecake
I‘m not sure my sister remembers this, but I made her mini cheesecakes one year for her birthday celebration with friends and she absolutely loved them. Given my family is great at complementing pretty much anything that any one of us cooks (most likely because of our shared love for food and understanding of the…
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School Holiday Brunch
Breakfast/brunch at our house in the school holidays is often well after noon. While the kids are often still keen for breakfast-y type foods, I like to eat something savoury at this time of day and generally try to find a way to find a healthy-ish compromise ☺️. Today‘s meal was simple but yummy and…
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Quincy’s Porridge
Quincy is my 18 year old who eats with just as much gusto as anyone else in our family, particularly adores blackberries and loves porridge. I woke this morning to a sweet text from him, sent well after midnight, asking if we could have breakfast together this morning and if it could please be porridge…
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Sylt Salad
Tomato mozzarella salad is delicious, don’t get me wrong. Sweet tomatoes, mild mozzarella and fresh basil – it’s a summer classic. And yet, every time I eat it, I feel like it has so much more potential. There are missing elements, almost too much simplicity to it. So on holiday one Easter on the beautiful…
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cute kitchen launch ❤️
Welcome to my cute kitchen! Food, cooking, baking and creating recipes are my life’s passion. My cute kitchen is full of fresh ingredients, pretty colours, wonderful smells and more often than not: full of people who I love to have around me. Join me and my cute kitchen from wherever you are and let’s get…
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