Tag: lemon
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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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Cool Summer Recipe: Dorie Greenspan’s Spoonable Ricotta for Heatwave Survival
I haven’t posted anything for a long time – first there was Christmas, then summer holidays and going back to work, but mainly I haven’t posted because… the heatwave!! I always complain about the heat this time of year. Sydney in February is always hot, humid and horrible but January was the hottest month on…
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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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Moro’s Warm Squash Chickpea Salad with Tahini Dressing Recipe: Winter Food
I used to make this salad a lot a few years ago, but I forgot about it until I was having some friends to dinner on Saturday and a large Jap pumpkin that need to be used up. This is the most fabulous winter salad, hearty and warming and a meal in itself if you…
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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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French Lentil and Onion Soup Recipe
It’s muggy and wet in Sydney. After the intense record-breaking heat wave of early February we’ve gone into a record-breaking season of rain… so much rain, everyone’s sick of the rain. Australia’s a drought prone continent and with global warming there have been years where I thought it was never going to rain again, so…
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Delicious and Quick Smashed Chickpea Salad Sandwich
I love sandwiches. When I was a kid, my family ate a lot of everyday sandwiches but there were also the sandwiches that my mum made for special occasions: platters of delicate sandwich quarters with their crusts removed and filled with ham and mustard, curried egg, chicken, salmon and, one of my favourites – grated…
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Old-Fashioned Pancakes with Lemon and Sugar: A Summer Breakfast Delight
When I was a kid, these simple crepes served with lemon and sugar were the only pancakes I knew until, when I was about ten, we hosted a Canadian exchange student who introduced our family to the joys of real maple syrup and the American-style pancakes, or ‘flap jacks’, as we called them back then.…
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Perfect Fluffy Lemon Infused Quinoa Recipe with Corn and Mint
The quinoa boat had well and truly sailed by the time I got on board and started to cook and eat it regularly. In the nineties when quinoa first became available in Australia, I tried cooking it and it was just awful – bitter and slimy – it was nothing I wanted to try again.…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 