Roasted Butternut Pumpkin and Parsley Salad

Sometimes all I want to eat is a simple, nutritious, comforting meal, with minimal effort, and packed with flavour. This roasted butternut and parsley salad hits the spot and always leaves me feeling satisfied, content and convinced that all is well with the world. It is so easy to whip up, that I made it for dinner yesterday, in the midst of cooking four different things for Roast, Simmer & Bake's new pop-up stall, in a kitchen that looked as if a tropical cyclone had torn through it.

Chargrilled Octopus and Orange Salad

I thought I’d try an ingredient I’d never worked with before and enthusiastically picked octopus as without any particular recipe in mind for this post. Having returned from the fish shop, I flipped frantically through my cookbooks for a while without much success. Thank goodness for Google, which yielded this recipe for a salad of char-grilled baby octopus and orange – what did we ever do without it?