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Pasta and Noodles, Recipes, Tofu, Vegan

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…
View recipe: Asian green salad with tofu, noodles and sesame sprinkle
Pasta and Noodles, Recipes

Japanese rice bowl: Scrambled eggs with cabbage/pumpkin cooked with soy sauce

I grew up with a fairly traditional meat and three veg meal which was often plated up individually in the kitchen by my mum. This rice bowl served with some kind protein and vegetable sides has long been my version of the traditional meat and three veg meal. Unlike my mum, I almost never plate…
View recipe: Japanese rice bowl: Scrambled eggs with cabbage/pumpkin cooked with soy sauce
Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes, Vegan

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…
View recipe: Vegan Jam Drops Recipe from The Tassajara Cookbook
Pulses – Beans, Lentils, Recipes, Vegan

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…
View recipe: Julie Sahni’s Red Lentil and Cabbage Stew Recipe | Hearty One-Pot Meal
Pulses – Beans, Lentils, Recipes, Vegan

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…
View recipe: Mixed Winter Dhal Recipe with Red and Brown Lentils
Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things, Recipes

Spelt flour, toasted coconut and sesame cookies

Last weekend, I helped my sister pack up her home of almost fifteen years. This wasn’t quite as bad as I expected: my sister’s house is due to be demolished in a couple of weeks and a new house built on the site, so everything left behind will just get bulldozed. There is something liberating…
View recipe: Spelt flour, toasted coconut and sesame cookies
Eggs, Indian Food, Recipes

Tomato Ginger Yogurt Hard-Boiled Egg Curry Recipe

I don’t make egg curry often and when I do, it’s often one of those ‘the cupboard is bare‘ meals, so I don’t like to get too fancy with it. This egg curry is adapted from Karen Martini and it’s one of those recipes that can be pared back to use the ingredients you have…
View recipe: Tomato Ginger Yogurt Hard-Boiled Egg Curry Recipe
Recipes, Side dishes, Vegan

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…
View recipe: Pomegranate Molasses Roasted Pumpkin Recipe with Nigella Seeds
Recipes, Salads, Vegan

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…
View recipe: Crunchy Kale, Red Cabbage, and Apple Slaw Recipe

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Elizabeth Mars

About the Author

My name is Elizabeth Mars and I live in Sydney’s inner west with my partner and twenty- year-old son.

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