The Sunday lunch highlight at my Grandma’s place wasn’t the roast for me. Nope, it was the creamy cucumber salad. I know, children might have odd food preferences, but that salad was what I was …
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Crispy Potato Buddha Bowl – Lunch in four easy steps
Do you like potatoes? Do you like them crispy? Was that two ‘yesses’? (Yesses? Yeses? Looks weird however I write it). Anyway, you’re in the right place! We LOVE potatoes, and we LOVE them crispy! …
Read More »Plush Persian Cucumber Dip – Your Veggies Have a Home (but not for long)
If we’re going to make a dip, we should do it properly. And this Persian cucumber dip is doing things properly. You take a classic, refreshing yogurt dip – then elevate it to the next …
Read More »The Manc Special Microwave Baked Potato Recipe
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 …
Read More »Microwave Baked Potatoes Guide
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 …
Read More »Rocket Soup / Arugula Soup – It’s the food that counts
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 …
Read More »High Society Cucumber Sandwiches – the Dos and Don’ts
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 …
Read More »The Best High-protein Tangy Tempeh Salad – Quick & Vegan
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 …
Read More »Fabulous Falafel Salad with Fake Tahini Sauce (high-protein & vegan)
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 …
Read More »Cucumber Raita – Beats the Heat
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 …
Read More »Colourful Tabbouleh Salad – All Vegan & Ready in 15 Minutes
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 …
Read More »High Protein Kidney Bean Salad (7 Minutes, Vegetarian)
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 …
Read More »Greek Pitas (10 Min, Vegetarian)
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 …
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