Tag: carrots
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Sticky vegan miso roasted carrots
Years ago, I used to make slow cooked parmesan carrot dish as one of my regular dinner party dishes. It was so good… carrots cooked down with loads of butter until they were dense little nuggets of carroty, caramelized, buttery goodness and sprinkled with parmesan – each bite was a umami flavour bomb. When I…
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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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Ina Garten’s Legendary Lentil Soup Recipe with Sofrito Flavor Base
I’ve got a quite a few lentil soups on this site and when I first came across this recipe, my first thought was, do I really need to try another version of lentil soup. My second thought was I can’t believe there’s a legendary Ina Garten lentil soup recipe that I’ve never even heard of……
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Authentic Greek Lentil Soup Recipe
The days are getting warmer and longer and soup season is almost over. There’ll be a few more cold snaps but then the heat will hit and no more soup for dinner. The end of soup eating weather is always a bit devastating for me, soup for dinner is the easiest thing to organise and…
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Slow Cooked Spanish Chickpeas Recipe
Canned chickpeas are a staple in the vegetarian store cupboard, not only are incredibly convenient, they are an absolute life saver when you need to make a quick and easy dinner and the cupboard is almost bare. These Spanish chickpeas meet the super easy and simple ingredient criteria but they really benefit from a long,…
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Best Sydney picnic – Ricotta, kale and walnut pesto sandwich recipe
I have a bit of a love hate relationship with my home city of Sydney. In the hate camp, is the fact, that the city is overpriced, congested, mindlessly pro-developer and money obsessed. On the love side, parts of it are just so heart meltingly beautiful you forget about all the bad stuff. Sydney is…
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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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Authentic TexMex Carrot Sofrito: Josef Centano’s Recipe
When the world is in turmoil, it’s good to go back to the comfort basics and, for a lot of Australian families, taco night has become something of an institution. Australia has a tiny Mexican population but we still love our taco nights, even if our version of tacos is less than authentic, simply because…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 