Tag: Gluten Free
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Sydney Summer Treat: Mango Sago with Coconut Cream Recipe
February is strange month in Sydney – everybody is back at school and work after the summer holidays but it is a month that is often hotter and more humid than January. There’s a sense of lingering resentment amongst people, the holidays are over but it’s still too hot to fully adjust back to the…
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Healing Rice Broth: How to Make Vegetarian Congee for Illness
I spent almost the entire Australia day long weekend in bed with some kind of undiagnosed ’flu/virus/headache ailment. Although I did manage to get up and watch the first set of the men’s final of the Australian Open on Sunday night before collapsing back into bed, I spent the weekend with that sense of boredom…
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Refreshing Recipes for Extreme Heat: Labneh Dip and Watermelon Salad
I realise talking about the heat wave is so ‘four days ago’ but when the heat was on, all anybody could talk about was the weather, how hot it was, how hot it was going to get and, most importantly, what the overnight low was going to be. When the heat is unrelenting even during…
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Delicious Southern Corn Cakes Recipe with Fresh Salsa and Whipped Feta
I seem to spend a fair amount of time on this blog whinging about the weather and, in particular, the heat. In the build up to Christmas in Australia, along with the stress of buying presents and the preparing and over consumption of massive amounts of food, comes with an added bonus of extreme heat…
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Greek Fasolakia: Slow Braised Green Bean Stew Delight
This is one of those magical dishes: so simple, with a nice short ingredient list which transforms a pile of green beans into something quite different and deliciously more than the some of its parts. The green beans are braised ever so slowly, so that they become oozily tender but not mushy. There is something…
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Simple Peruvian Lentils and Rice Recipe with Red Onion Salad
There are times when the sheer weight of all the available food options becomes overwhelming. Last week, I was sick and went on a bit of congee and brown rice bender in order to regain a sense of balance. Then I made this simple lentils and rice with red onion salad and ate it three…
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Easy Whipped Feta Spread for Summer Entertaining
I read a lot of American food blogs, so I’m constantly filing things away in my head to try next winter (or summer) when they become more seasonally appropriate. There are times when the northern and southern hemisphere food connect a little but, as we move into the festive food seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas,…
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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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Discover Poha: A Unique Gluten-Free Breakfast Option
Breakfast is one of my favorite meals – not the boring weekday muesli or toast breakfast, but those weekend two-cups-of-coffee, corn-cakes, poached-eggs-and-pancakes-you-don’t-need-to-eat-for-the-rest-of-the-day kind of breakfasts. But, as much as I love these lavish cafe brekkies, I have often wondered why cafes have never expanded their offerings with some breakfasts from around the world and are…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 