Tag: cumin
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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 Roasted Cauliflower with Punjabi Spices
When I was in my twenties, one of my standard dinner party side dishes was fried cauliflower with a Turkish garlic and yoghurt sauce. It was a recipe from one my cooking bibles Tess Mallos’s The Complete Middle East Cookbook and it was always a big hit, but how can you go wrong with fried…
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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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Vegan Cashew Hummus: Perfect for Summer
We’re big hummus eaters in our house, up to this date I’ve got three chickpea hummus recipes on this blog, a quick green herb hummus, a labor intensive but super creamy hummus with peeled chickpeas and our latest favorite an Israeli style hummus . I’m not a hummus purist though, my sister makes an awesome…
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Vegetarian Gallo Pinto: Traditional Costa Rican Red Rice and Beans
Gallo Pinto – rice and beans – is a one of the most well known dishes from Costa Rica. I’d never heard of it until a few months ago, when I was browsing through Jamie Oliver’s Super Food Everyday, where he showcased a 94-year-old Costa Rican man, who gave as one of the reasons for…
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Indian Style Black Bean Dahl Recipe
Like a lot of vegetarian cooks, my pantry shelves are full to bursting with an enormous range of ingredients and, at this stage in my life, I want to bring it all in and consolidate my pantry staples into some kind of semblance of order and usability. When I read a recipe which includes yet…
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Authentic Trinidadian Dahl and Homemade Hot Sauce Recipes
I was driving to a yoga class the other day when I heard on the radio the Britain had major flood alerts all over the country and I had the idle thought: Gee some floods would be nice. While I’m not really yearning to be flooded out of my home, if I had to pick…
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Festive and Flavorful – Vegan Spanish Rice with Tomato and Paprika
There is something so festive about Spanish rice that it turns the most ordinary meal of beans and rice into an instant fiesta or party. This recipe comes comes via the recipe site SImply Recipes, which is my ‘go to’ source for Tex-Mex food. The secret to a good Spanish rice is to saute the…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 