Tag: mint
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Delicious Black Barley Salad with Cauliflower and Pomegranate
Black barley is an ancient grain, unlike modern barley where the husk is removed the husk on black barley is kept intact. This makes it a nutritionally rich source of vitamins B and E, calcium, iron and potassium. It is also cholesterol free and a good source of fiber and selenium. I recently cut out…
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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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Baked Rice with Pomegranate and Olive Salsa Recipe
I’m a late-comer to Ottolenghi fandom, I had the standard complaints about his books; too many exotic ingredients, pedantic and complicated recipes. This all changed when a friend gave me Jerusalem as a birthday present a few years ago. Middle-Eastern food is my thing, suddenly, the exotic ingredients weren’t so exotic and I didn’t have…
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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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Palate-Popping Green Pea, Basil, and Mint Soup Recipe
A friend made this soup for me last winter. He’d first eaten it on a plane, an international Virgin flight, got home, Googled it, and had been making it two or three times a week for about a month. It’s that kind of soup – one of those things that when you taste it, it…
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Refreshing Pomegranate Mojito Mocktail Recipe
It’s pomegranate season! I live in a suburb in Sydney that has a lot of backyard pomegranate trees, so even though I buy my pomegranates from a boring old shop, I can still see fruit-laden pomegranate trees and feel connected to the seasons – a rare and magical thing for a city dweller in this…
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Baked omelette with zucchini, leeks, feta and herbs
The weather is getting warmer in Sydney and we’re heading into picnic season. Sydney enjoys summertime picnics like no other city I know. This may have something to do with the fact that there are a lot of waterside parks that make awesome picnic spots but, for what ever reason, the city’s attachment to the…
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Fire Roasted Tomato and Mint Salsa Recipe
We’ve just got back from a week-long beach holiday and one of the great things about Forster, the town we were holidaying in, was it had a great fruit and vegetable shop – The Farmer’s Patch, which sources most of its fruit and vegetables locally. You can always spot the urbanised city foodies because we…
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Middle-Eastern Vegetarian Eggplant ‘Cordon Bleu’ Recipe with Haloumi and Mint
Years ago, whenever I had a dinner party, one of my standards was (depending on the season) crumbed eggplant slices or cauliflower florets, fried in olive oil and served with a garlic yoghurt sauce. They were always a hit because, seriously, who can resist anything that is both crumbed and fried. When you add some…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 