Category: Vegan
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Iraqi White Bean Stew
This white bean stew from Meera Sodha makes a great midweek dinner. If you have some canned white beans on hand you can get get dinner on the table in half an hour or so. Simple, sustaining and delicious – you can’t go wrong with that. Note: If you have some of the spice mix…
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How to Make the Perfect Black Bean Soup
I love the end of summer for the abundance of produce but it is also my favourite time of year because as the weather cools it’s time to make soup! This black bean soup makes a good transitional soup as the summer eases into autumn. Its colourful fresh garnishes and a side of tortilla chips…
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Rainbow Quinoa Salad Recipe: Healthy & Delicious
I recently got back from a six week trip to India and as usual when I’m travelling I began to crave crunchy fresh salads. During my trip I spent three weeks in an Auyervedic clinic in Kerala doing a panchakarma detox. At the end of my three weeks I was given a list of a…
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Tempeh Recipe: Satisfying Sticky and Spicy
I love tempeh. I first discovered this wonder food back the 1980’s when it was not widely available commercially in Australia. I was living in Cairns in far north Queensland and once a week I would ride my bike to a house in the next suburb and buy fresh tofu and tempeh from a retired…
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Quick and Easy Braised Tofu Rice Bowl Recipe
I love rice bowl dinners. I’m a big believer in the protein and two veg rice bowl for a balanced meal. This braised tofu is as close as I can get to a one pot meal, it has enough vegetables and protein to make a complete and satisfying meal. Best of all it is made…
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Easy Korean Braised Tofu Recipe
I have a lot of braised tofu dishes on this site because, braised tofu is one of my standard dinners when I can’t think of what else to make. I go through various phases of which style of braised tofu I make but at the moment my go to tofu for a mid-week rice bowl…
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Vegetable Ragu: A Frugal Italian Delight
This vegetable ragu is known as fake sauce (sugo finto) and is a great example of cuisina povera or the frugal food of Italy. In this vegetarian ragu sauce, meat is replaced with vegetables. The flavor is layered into the sauce with a slow cooked soffritto of onions, carrots and celery, which is deglazed with…
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Easy Biber Salçası Recipe: Homemade Turkish Pepper Paste
Biber Salçası (Turkish red pepper paste) is widely used in Turkish cooking in much the same way you would use tomato paste. Traditionally the peppers are sun dried before being ground into a paste. This simplified, homemade version of biber salçası comes from Ozlem Warren’s brilliant new cookbook Sebze. Red bell peppers are slowly simmered…
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Easy Asian Smashed Cucumber Salad with Garlic
I first fell in love with this smashed cucumber salad at ShanDong MaMa an eatery in Melbourne, famous for its dumplings and home-style, Northern Chinese cuisine. The first time I ate this salad I went home and googled recipes for smashed cucumber salad, because I absolutely had to recreate it at home. There were a…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 