Buckwheat with pumpkin and dried apricot - Vegan, DF and GF

This aromatic and tasty thing will only take half an hour or less - start by roasting the pumpkin and while thats doing, all the other things fold into that amount of time! Cooking the buckwheat, plumping up the dried apricots, saute-ing some onion, chopping some flatleaf parsley and grating some lemon zest. Then you just pull it all together. Simple and delicious!

Jacket-baked kumara stuffed with stuff - vegan, DF and GF

The various stuffs involved in the stuffing are entirely customisable: fresh corn, capsicum, spring onion, chilli, flatleaf, avocado, lemon, cottage cheese... you can mix and match to your preference!

Red lentil dhal with spiced onion - Vegan, DF and GF

The spiced onions really lift this dhal to something special! The whole dish is still quite quick - about half an hour, and of course dhal is even better the next day. Have this as one of a few different curries on the table with rice and flatbread for an Indian feast...

Eggplant, paneer and cashew curry - Vegetarian and GF

There is a lot of assorted dairy in this sumptuous curry i'm sorry! No avoiding it really... Also loads of aromatics - garlic, ginger, coriander and a well-rounded mix of warm spices ; all wrapped around cubed eggplant, paneer and cashews. Yum and yum

Yellow fish chowder - DF and GF

This one has many of the comforting elements we know and love in fish chowder - potato and pumpkin for a smooth and creamy base, creamed corn, stock, fingers of super fresh white fish... and then it goes off-piste with ginger, chilli, fish sauce and coriander leaf... It's the best of both worlds really!

Lamb and prune tagine - DF and GF

I decided to team this up with red rice, so there's not a lot of colour contrast! The sprinkle of shredded mint is not merely cosmetic - it definitely gives the whole tagine a fresh flavour lift. This is a slow cook, could be done in the slow cooker. The flavours are warm and round and the meat is meltingly tender after that long slow cook. Is a good time.