Watermelon Feta Salad

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This refreshing watermelon feta salad is easy and quick to make and will soon become your summer favorite.

Watermelon, feta and mint salad
Hello, hello, are you guys still here or have you left thinking no one is ever going to post?

I know, I know! This space has been pretty quiet and I take full responsibility. I guess, thanks to instagram all my “blogging” happens on that platform and thanks to full time photography I don’t get much time in the kitchen to recipe test except when its for clients. I am hoping though that in the coming months that might change and I can refocus on the blog again. I really want to. I enjoyed testing and creating recipes for myself to put on the blog and I miss that. I have been occasionally revisiting old posts though and editing those with better pictures as well as putting a print friendly recipe option in the blog post. If you have been following me on instagram or Facebook, you would know when I update those old posts like I did when I recently remade the chocolate and vanilla five layer cake (which now I am dreaming about) and edited the post with a recent picture.

Watermelon, feta and mint salad

These days, all my cooking and baking is mostly quick recipes like this watermelon feta salad.

This watermelon feta salad is such a great summer salad. The sweetness from the watermelon, the saltiness from the feta and the freshness of the mint make the pairing an absolute delight.  I have made the salad some 100 times, but have never thought it needs to be posted on the blog because there really isn’t a recipe as such for making it. You cut some watermelon, crumble some feta and mint, add salt pepper and a dressing and voila!

There are endless variations that one can try with the watermelon feta salad. Sometimes I add the balsamic vinegar and lemon juice as a dressing, sometimes I skip it. Sometimes I add walnuts and blueberries, other times pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries. Sometimes I add onions and flaked almond, sometimes I leave those out. You could choose to add lemon zest, pomegranate, cucumber or basil too. Whatever you add, do try the salad out and comment with your variations.

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Chicken Noodle Salad

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If you love asian salads, this chicken noodle salad with poached chicken, a spicy sesame oil dressing and noodles will become a favorite of yours.

This quick and easy chicken noodle salad with poached chicken, a spicy sesame oil dressing and noodles will become a favorite of yours.

I am trying my best to be more active on the blog. It had helped that work had been light the last couple of days, giving me enough time to spend in the kitchen to experiment or revisit old recipes on the blog and review/reshoot them. Last week besides experimenting with this asian chicken noodle salad recipe, I also revisited the flourless chocolate cake recipe from the blog archives and baked the white chocolate cranberry pistachio cookies to send to my brother and sis-in-law. I also made chocolate chip cookies and baked a barbie cake for my niece using the sponge cake recipe here and the filling frosting recipe from here. Yes, I was busy in the kitchen.

This week I was again traveling, so couldn’t experiment much but I did try a lot of new dishes and have a few things I would like to try in my kitchen. While working with other people’s food for client shoots has its own perks, I do love styling and shooting my own recipes. I also do enjoy the creative freedom I have, although I am lucky most of my clients trust me enough to give me a free reign.

This asian flavored chicken noodle salad with poached chicken, a spicy sesame oil dressing and noodles will become a favorite of yours.

I have been sharing pointers on styling and photography on my instagram stories. I have always found it helpful when other people post Behind the scenes and now that I have some sense of what works and what doesn’t (learning never stops), I thought its my time to share what I have learnt. If you are interested in knowing more about the photographs I shoot do follow me on instagram (@muddychoux).

This chicken noodle salad is adapted from a recipe on Gourmet Travelers app. I loved the sound of it, but I had to make a few adjustments since I didn’t have quite a few of the important ingredients called for in the recipe. Either way the chicken noodle salad came out delicious. I love the heating of the oil with the star anise- what a wonderful aroma it gave to the oil. Its something I am looking forward to trying more in my recipes.

If you try this recipe or any other recipe from the blog, please do tag me on your creations on instagram, facebook,  twitter or leave a comment here.

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Homemade Granola

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Healthy granola recipe. The best base granola recipe to play around with and super easy to make. Will become your favorite granola recipe. 

Homemade Granola- easy, quick recipe. Made with oats, naturally sweetened and your favorites nuts and dried fruits.

I have always been a breakfast person. Like I can eat breakfast for lunch, dinner and snack kind of a person.

While I love a breakfast with buttermilk biscuits, scrambled eggs, aloo parantha even, and now have the luxury on most days to have a leisurely breakfast, but when I am on the run, granola and milk/yogurt has always been my go to option.

When I was in the US, granola was a favorite breakfast of mine. I always used store bought granola since I thought it was more convenient than making your own. I was absolutely wrong. Believe me when I say making this granola is the easiest thing you could do. Everything mixes together in one bowl. You can customize the granola to your liking by adding or subtracting whatever mix-ins you want (or dont want). And it is so much better (and cheaper too) than any store bought granola you have ever had.

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