Category: Vegan
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Marcus Samuelsson’s Quick Cucumber Pickles Recipe
The heat is on and Sydney has just had its first heatwave of the summer. While we are still officially not even mid-way through spring, that becomes meaningless when you have a a heatwave of 35° plus temperatures and the worst October fire conditions ever. The idea of springtime and a slow build up to…
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Greek Briami Recipe: Delicious Vegan Casserole
I made this briami last week while I was up the coast for a wet and wild week away. Despite the rain, we still managed to have a great holiday catching up with family and friends. We enjoyed a few sunny patches and our last full day was miraculously sunny (though too cold for swimming)…
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Refreshing Cucumber, Mirin and Sesame Salad Recipe
I have Mike McEnearney’s book Kitchen By Mike on a long borrow from my sister while her house is being demolished and a new one built. Despite the fact there’s quite a lot of meat-based recipes, I’m getting quite a lot out of it because the salads are just so good, and salads are my…
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Asian green salad with tofu, noodles and sesame sprinkle
Just a quick post today because it’s the first day of spring and I wanted to celebrate by eating some asparagus. I was thinking of making pasta primavera but most recipes use cream and I didn’t want to buy some cream, use a small amount and have the rest waste away in the refrigerator, only…
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Vegan Jam Drops Recipe from The Tassajara Cookbook
On the weekend, a friend and I went to visit an old friend in Bundanoon on the Southern Highlands. My friend spent a lot of time at the Tassajara Zen Centre in California in the early 2000s, so I thought I’d make these cookies from the Tassajara Cookbook as a nice nostalgic treat for us…
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Julie Sahni’s Red Lentil and Cabbage Stew Recipe | Hearty One-Pot Meal
The other week, a friend gave me a large, organic cabbage because she already had more cabbage than her family could eat. I got it home and I was temporarily at a loss about what to do with all this cabbage so, of course, I Googled “best cabbage recipes” and got a whole slew of…
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Mixed Winter Dhal Recipe with Red and Brown Lentils
Dhal and rice is one my favorite fall back meals, it’s incredibly economical and comforting. This dhal, with its warming spices and mixture of red and brown lentils and kidney beans, is particularly good in the cooler months. I grew up with a fairly conventional ‘meat-and-three-veg’ family and I always would make a face and…
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Pomegranate Molasses Roasted Pumpkin Recipe with Nigella Seeds
Ever since I was a kid, roasted pumpkin has been one of my favorite foods. I come from a family of six siblings, so when my mum made a roast dinner, there never seemed to be enough roast pumpkin to satisfy me. Along with the other roasted veggies, we were allocated only one piece of…
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Crunchy Kale, Red Cabbage, and Apple Slaw Recipe
About six weeks ago, I made a double batch of vegetarian party sausage rolls for a friend’s son’s sixth birthday. I had made these sausage rolls for the first time the previous year for his fifth birthday, and had under-estimated the baking time, plus the cross-city Saturday morning traffic, so arrived at Centennial Park after…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 