Tag Archives: cucumber

This cottage cheese and cucumber beauty hails from the north of England. It’s quick, simple and tasty – and the cottage cheese provides a good whack of protein, too. Getting a baked potato just right …

Every now and then we get really immersed in a recipe. And so I have been eating at least one microwave baked potato almost every day for MONTHS. In all shapes and sizes, flavours and …

Language is a funny old thing. Order a rocket soup in some places and you’ll be met with blank stares. In others, a joke about how fast you want it. In yet more, you’ll be …

Cucumber Sandwiches – the Dos and Don’ts This cucumber sandwich with cream cheese recipe started out as a bit of fun, but we soon realised that cucumber sandwiches are a pretty serious recipe. Well, in …

We do get quite obsessed with things here at HurryTheFoodup. Tempeh Salad is our new love. Our first foray into tempeh came about relatively recently – and it was a revelation. Before starting the 30 …

This falafel salad recipe really made us think. Is it ok to use falafel mix? Or even pre-packaged falafel? For the most part we really do like to promote whole foods over processed – they …

The Sunday lunch highlight at my Grandma’s place wasn’t the roast for me. Nope, it was the cucumber salad. I know, children might have odd food preferences, but that salad was what I was looking …

Ahh, cucumber raita. A dish as cool as a…well, a cucumber. A cucumber that’s been dipped in yoghurt and kept in the fridge. Refreshing, and certainly pleasing on the palate too. Some people say I’m …

Tabbouleh salad, Tabbouli, or even Tabouli salad is a dish that’s becoming more and more well-known away from it’s traditional Levantine (Eastern Mediterranean) homelands, and there’s very good reason for that. Made from either couscous …

Ever since our White Bean Salad got snuffled up and shared on several health and fitness websites, we’ve been looking for another high-protein dish that was as tasty as it was sure to catch the …

It’s like the famous Trojan horse all over again – but  instead of a vicious bunch of hairy, sweaty and smelly soldiers leaping out (much to the surprise of all involved), these Greek Pitas come bursting …