Category: Recipes
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fast Grated Vegetable Stock
The days are getting cooler and its time to stock up on some stock for soups, risottos and stews. This stock from River Cottage Veg everyday is a good, quick, all round stock. The vegetables are grated so it only needs to simmer for 10 minutes. For those who like to think ahead double the…
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Quick Lacquered Tofu with Green Beans and Cashews Recipe
You can never have too many braised tofu dishes in your repertoire. This one from Deborah Madison is a particularly good one. It’s a wok and rice pot meal that gets dinner done fast in the mid-week lull when all cooking inspiration has disappeared. I like to serve this with brown rice, but I’ve temporarily…
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French Lentil and Onion Soup Recipe
It’s muggy and wet in Sydney. After the intense record-breaking heat wave of early February we’ve gone into a record-breaking season of rain… so much rain, everyone’s sick of the rain. Australia’s a drought prone continent and with global warming there have been years where I thought it was never going to rain again, so…
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Quick and Easy Nigerian Kidney Bean Stew Recipe
The two can bean dinner is a staple of vegetarian home cooking. You can never have too many quick meals up your sleeve using a couple of cans of beans. It’s fast and convenient and if you compare, preparing a meal of beans and rice to ordering and picking up takeaway, the canned beans and…
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Homemade Salted Caramel Chocolate Slice Recipe
There is something very homely but elegant about an old fashioned slice. When I was a kid, my mother had about half a dozen slice recipes that were family favourites. In the days when most sweets were homemade, a slice was less labour intensive than biscuits and kept better than cake. Cut into small one…
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Refreshing Lime Cordial Recipe to Beat the Heat
Sydney has just suffered its worst heatwave since records began – a week of hot and humid weather culminated in three days of 40°+ temperatures across the city (for those not on the celsius scale 40°C is equivalent to 104° fahrenheit). In Penrith, the official temperature peaked at 46.9°C (116.4°F) but in the bitumen heat…
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Light and Delicious Carrot Feta Fritters Recipe
I made these last night to refresh a dinner of left over black beans and rice. They’re good like that fritters, a rejuvenating element that can turn the simplest of meals into something of a party. You can make fritters out of anything but the old carrot fritter seems to be a bit under- represented,…
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Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe: Perfect Summer Afternoon Tea Dessert
I haven’t baked this cake for a couple of years until I baked it in a lull in the heat last week and again this week. Tart with yoghurt, fragrant with lemon zest, this is (if you can bear to turn on the oven) a perfect summer afternoon tea cake. It comes together quite easily…
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Vegan Cashew Hummus: Perfect for Summer
We’re big hummus eaters in our house, up to this date I’ve got three chickpea hummus recipes on this blog, a quick green herb hummus, a labor intensive but super creamy hummus with peeled chickpeas and our latest favorite an Israeli style hummus . I’m not a hummus purist though, my sister makes an awesome…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 