Tag: food
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Wholesome Seed Bars: A Healthy Sweet Treat Recipe
I’ve made these seed bars a few times as a wholesome sweet treat. The first couple of times I dipped them in chocolate, which made them a slightly decadent and delicious treat. This time, I was making them for this post and I kept procrastinating about the chocolate and ended eating the batch without the…
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Flavor-Packed Shredded Tofu with Charred Shallots
I first made this shredded tofu for a vegetarian option in a taco dinner party, which had a braised beef brisket as the main star. Surprisingly, the brisket eaters happily devoured the tofu alongside the meat option. Perhaps this wasn’t so surprising because this shredded tofu is totally delicious. I came across this recipe via…
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How to Make the Perfect Black Bean Soup
I love the end of summer for the abundance of produce but it is also my favourite time of year because as the weather cools it’s time to make soup! This black bean soup makes a good transitional soup as the summer eases into autumn. Its colourful fresh garnishes and a side of tortilla chips…
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Vegan Chickpea ‘Tuna’ Salad Recipe
‘Chickpea of the Sea’ is a vegan smashed chickpea ‘tuna’ style salad. I haven’t made it for years, but I’m on the search for things that I can prep and have in the fridge for sandwich and toast toppings. I’d forgotten how surprisingly delicious chickpea ‘tuna’ salad was, I had it for lunch over the…
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Rainbow Quinoa Salad Recipe: Healthy & Delicious
I recently got back from a six week trip to India and as usual when I’m travelling I began to crave crunchy fresh salads. During my trip I spent three weeks in an Auyervedic clinic in Kerala doing a panchakarma detox. At the end of my three weeks I was given a list of a…
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Easy Porcini Risotto Recipe
This recipe for porcini risotto comes from an old newspaper clipping from many years ago. I’ve been slowly going through my old recipe binders and rediscovering old favorites from my files. This risotto is very, very good and like many of my rediscovered recipes I don’t quite understand why it fell from favor. This risotto…
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Easy Greek Goddess Dip Recipe for Parties
I recently watched the Martha Stewart documentary on Netflix and it made me nostalgic for those bacchanalian feasts of the eighties, whole wheels of brie, baskets of strawberries and tables of beautifully arranged vegetable crudites. The eighties was all about excess even if it was in the form of masses of vegetable crudites. On Sunday…
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Tempeh Recipe: Satisfying Sticky and Spicy
I love tempeh. I first discovered this wonder food back the 1980’s when it was not widely available commercially in Australia. I was living in Cairns in far north Queensland and once a week I would ride my bike to a house in the next suburb and buy fresh tofu and tempeh from a retired…
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Homemade Japanese Sesame Dressing Recipe
Years ago, I used to go regularly to a Japanese restaurant that used to make the best avocado salad with roasted sesame dressing. This was the dish that I used to dream about and crave between visits. Of course, I tried recreating this salad at home with a commercial Kewpie Japanese dressing, but it was…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 