Again this is another recipe from last month. It was a bit of a disappointment because the picture in the book looked so pretty. That'll show me not to judge a meal by the way it looks. The problem with this was that I also made a lot of it! So I ended up eating this for a week. Not fun. The thing is I don't really like cold soba noodles, so I'm not sure why I made so much of this salad. It just ended up tasting really bland and sort of dry. There also wasn't much flavour, i'm not sure if this was because I did not have enough dressing. This is one of the few Japanese recipese that I have attempted that just have not worked for me. I am a little disappointed that I did not take photos of my prawn gyoza now (but I really am not capable of folding dumplings nicely).

I actually made this last month, but I've been fairly lazy about taking photos recently let alone positing them. I love making omelettes because I always have eggs in the fridge so on weekends on the rare occasion I can actually be bothered to make breakfast I know I can whip up an omelette. I don't always have bacon or bread or milk or even cereal for that matter on hand, so that just leaves egg. It just so happened that on this weekend I happened to have all these ingredients on hand (although I had to run out to get the bread roll). Usually when I make omlette I'm not following any particular recipe but this one is actually quite good. Maybe it was the cheese. I don't usually bother adding cheese to omelette. Apart from the ingredients being really handy, it is also really easy to make and it means that when you're really hungry that you will soon have a hot meal prepared.

I borrowed this Women's Weekly recipe book from the library. I'd read a few before and found them quite boring, not enough pictures and the recipes a little too traditional. But this book was actually very interesting with lots of modern recipes. Unlike a lot of cookbooks it also tells you how long it will take you to cook and the calorie and fat content which is always nice to know.

I know that I am technically cheating since I did not provide a photo, but it would have looked like a pile of leaves anyway. I know I don't eat any much green stuff but since moving out I have discovered there are some green stuff that I actually like: cabbage, zucchini, spinach, avocado, lettuce, rocket, even green capsicum (because often it was cheaper than the red capsicum, go figure). Over the Easter weekend I watched Nigella Feasts on DVD and this was one of the few recipes that caught my eye. It just looked so easy to make and it tastes really good. I did have a moment this afternoon where I almost forgot the smoked salmon, but I think it tastes really good with the smoked salmon. Although I don't approve of always just eating a salad as a full meal, I will admit that this was the only thing I had for dinner. I had no idea what else to eat with it.

I love all the separate ingredients that make up this salad: salmon, pumpkin seeds, spinach, lime and avocado. It is really that easy. The pumpkin seeds at crunch to the mushy avocados. The lime adds zest and the spinach adds a little bitter. Nigella says it all, the salmon just adds that little bit of luxe. It took me under 10 minutes to "cook" and it tasted really great and totally guilt free. If only dinner was always that easy to make.