Tag: carrot
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Turkish Beetroot Salad Recipe
I’ve have a life long love of beetroot. One of my early culinary memories is at the age of four or five making a beetroot and mayonaise sandwich at the family lunch table and being so engrossed in this task, that I missed the action of my father killing a tiger snake in the paddock…
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Vietnamese Pickled Carrot Recipe for Banh Mi and More
When I was a kid, before I started school, my mum would take me into town for the big weekly grocery shop. We lived on a farm and the weekly shop was a big event. My mum and I would dress up in our Sunday best and for lunch we would get take away cheese…
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Classic Vegetarian Split Pea Soup Recipe
This is my family’s favorite split pea soup, it’s an old-fashioned vegetarian classic from the Moosewood Cookbook. There’s nothing fancy about it. Hearty, thick and filling – served with some good bread it’s all you need to make a meal. Start early because the split peas take a few hours simmering on the back burner.…
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Nostalgic Pearl Barley Broth Recipe
This soup reminds me of my grandmother, it is like something she would have made, although she would have used a beef or lamb stock. I’m a much more slap dash cook than my grandma, who was very careful in the way chopped her vegetables and put food together. That was always the essence of…
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Light and Delicious Carrot Feta Fritters Recipe
I made these last night to refresh a dinner of left over black beans and rice. They’re good like that fritters, a rejuvenating element that can turn the simplest of meals into something of a party. You can make fritters out of anything but the old carrot fritter seems to be a bit under- represented,…
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Delicious Vegetarian Minestrone Soup Recipe
I haven’t posted for a while, for couple of reasons – firstly, I’ve been madly busy but, secondly and most importantly, it’s been so unseasonably, ridiculously hot over the past month, with a record-breaking run of temperatures over 26°C for weeks on end. Global warming sucks and makes a mockery of all the change of…
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Vegan Fasolatha Soup – Greek Recipe with White Beans
I love it when the weather gets cooler and we can just have soup for dinner. We all love soup in our house but I love it the most because it is a complete one pot meal, which can stretch over two nights and even a lunch or two. Fasolatha is one of those simple…
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Delicious and Nutritious Cuban Black Beans Recipe with Turkish Carrot Pilaf
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why Cuban black beans taste so good. They’re incredibly easy to make, cheap and you can easily make a big pot of them and feed a crowd. Just eating them makes you feel like your doing yourself a healthy favour, but not in some dour low-fat, heavy wholemeal kind of…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 