Category: Pulses – Beans, Lentils
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Delicious Olive Oil White Bean Soup with Winter Greens
Sydney has had the longest Indian summer this year, with months of extraordinarily barmy and mild weather, temperatures in the mid-twenties, clear blue skies and warm ocean temperatures, which meant people were still happily swimming in the ocean all throughout May. You would think I could just accept this glorious weather and enjoy it but…
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Spicy Citrusy Black Beans Recipe for Vegetarian Family Meals
It’s autumn in Sydney and while it’s still hot during the day, there’s a refreshing chill in the air in the mornings and evenings, and the intense humidity and monsoonal rains of March have eased off. I was going to post these black beans last week but when I checked my pantry, I discovered to…
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Delicious and Quick Smashed Chickpea Salad Sandwich
I love sandwiches. When I was a kid, my family ate a lot of everyday sandwiches but there were also the sandwiches that my mum made for special occasions: platters of delicate sandwich quarters with their crusts removed and filled with ham and mustard, curried egg, chicken, salmon and, one of my favourites – grated…
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Delicious Moroccan Chickpea and Pumpkin Stew with Cous Cous Recipe
In the 1990s, Australians first discovered Moroccan food and it became one of the defining foods fads of the decade. Many of my friends purchased couscousieres, which eventually became like the fondue sets of the 1970s – relegated to the backs of cupboards or sold off in garage sales. Moroccan food has come back into its…
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Simple Peruvian Lentils and Rice Recipe with Red Onion Salad
There are times when the sheer weight of all the available food options becomes overwhelming. Last week, I was sick and went on a bit of congee and brown rice bender in order to regain a sense of balance. Then I made this simple lentils and rice with red onion salad and ate it three…
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Indian Style Black Bean Dahl Recipe
Like a lot of vegetarian cooks, my pantry shelves are full to bursting with an enormous range of ingredients and, at this stage in my life, I want to bring it all in and consolidate my pantry staples into some kind of semblance of order and usability. When I read a recipe which includes yet…
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Authentic Trinidadian Dahl and Homemade Hot Sauce Recipes
I was driving to a yoga class the other day when I heard on the radio the Britain had major flood alerts all over the country and I had the idle thought: Gee some floods would be nice. While I’m not really yearning to be flooded out of my home, if I had to pick…
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Quick and Easy Green Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus in my time. Now the absolute best hummus is made with freshly-cooked chickpeas and ground when the chickpeas are freshly cooked. It’s even better if you use those tiny, nuggety organic chickpeas which are packed with flavour. I’ve got a couple of recipes for hummus on this site including…
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Heartwarming Vegan Swedish Yellow Split Pea Soup Recipe
Sometimes, it’s hard to get up the enthusiasm to write much about a recipe, not because I don’t love it, but I feel like enthusing too much about something as humble and simple as this split pea soup, is kind of ridiculous. What more can I really say about it except that it’s my new…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 