light meal
Ideas for light meals, either lunch or supper.
Chicken tortilla soup
Garnish with avocado slices and cheese. Use Monterrey Jack or Chihuahua cheese in this recipe. Mexican oregano will render a more authentic flavor.
Fattoush
This is a Tunisian salad with bread and cheese. It is similar to the Italian panzanella or Spanish old style gazpacho.
Blueberry cake
Excellent and nutritious as breakfast, dessert or snack, and a change from blueberry pancakes.
Baked potatoes
Baked potatoes are easy to prepare. They make an incredibly varied dish as the limit for fillings and toppings is your imagination.
Balmain bug salad
This salad is a specialty of Sydney. Contrary to what any may might think, balmain bugs are not insects. Balmain bugs are a type of slipper lobster, not a true lobster, but they have a taste and texture similar to the real one.
If you cannot find balmain bugs, which are usually sold in fish markets along Australian eastern coast, especially Sydney, any crustacean will be a boog substitute. Substitute balmain bugs with prawns, shrimp, crab or lobster - use 1 lobster, cooked and prepared for this recipe.
Basic menestra
This is the most traditional way to prepare a menestra. To prevent the sauce from sticking to the bottom of the pan once simmering, just shake the pan.