Category: Vegan
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Simple Beetroot Salad with Walnuts and Cumin Seeds
It was the first communal picnic of the season last weekend. Saturday saw torrential downpours across Sydney but Sunday was a perfect day for picnicking. We went to my favorite picnic spot, Nielsen park, which has the ideal combination of shade, shelter from winds, a 1920’s kiosk for coffee & ice cream and swimming. (Nielsen…
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Easy Armenian Potatoes as a Party Side
I used to make these Armenian potatoes a lot many years ago. They’re a great dish for a party, super simple and stupendously delicious. I made these for a dinner party on the weekend, as part of falafel feast. I was going to make spicy Lebanese potatoes but these Armenian potatoes were just as good…
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Nivik: Armenian Chickpeas and Spinach Recipe
This recipe comes from one of my tried and true cooking bibles Tess Mallos’s – The Complete Middle Eastern Cookbook. First published in 1979 and republished over 45 times since, it remains one of the great iconic Australian cookbooks and has influenced generations of home cooks. The great thing about Tess Mallos’s book and the…
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Nostalgic Comfort: Braised Cantonese Style Tofu Recipe
When I was a kid Chinese food was the one exotic eating option in rural Australia. For my eighth birthday dinner, I chose the standard family celebration dinner, roast chicken with pavlova for dessert. My best friend came for dinner and brought an exotic offering, a container of fried rice, from the Chinese restaurant that…
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Delicious Vegan Dumplings Everyone Will Love
Dumplings are one of my favorite things in the world. I grew up in a small town in country NSW and when we visited Sydney the biggest treat was yum cha in Chinatown. My family still loves yum cha, because dumplings! We always over order, concentrating our appetites on the steamed dumplings, particularly the chive…
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Spicy Korean Tofu: A Simple Recipe with Gochugaru
I recently discovered a Korean tofu factory that sells fresh tofu from the factory door. It’s a little hole in the wall place next to the Korean corp of the Salvation Army in Belmore. They do a roaring trade selling basic white tofu, silken dessert tofu with ginger sauce and fried tofu pockets in various…
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Slow Roasted Winter Vegetables Recipe
Normally when I roast vegetables I’m all about getting maximum crunchiness and caramelization, but a few years ago I discovered this method of roasting vegetables from Luisa Weiss at Wednesday Chef. Here the vegetables are chopped into small pieces, then slow roasted for hour or more, until the flavors meld and intensify. For an entire…
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Life-Saving Lentil Soup Recipe
This soup from Jill Dupleix is life saving for a number of reasons. It makes a delicious, economical one pot family meal, with ingredients you’re likely to have on hand (requiring no last-minute dash to the shops). It’s even better the next day, so you can make several meals out of it. Although it takes…
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Moro’s Warm Squash Chickpea Salad with Tahini Dressing Recipe: Winter Food
I used to make this salad a lot a few years ago, but I forgot about it until I was having some friends to dinner on Saturday and a large Jap pumpkin that need to be used up. This is the most fabulous winter salad, hearty and warming and a meal in itself if you…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 