Tag: mint
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Luxurious Brown Rice Salad with Caramelised Onion and Currants
I’ve been making this salad for years ever since I first cut out the recipe from the Sunday Life magazine. It’s a Karen Martini recipe and what I like best about it is the way she treats brown rice, in such a star-studded way. There is nothing faintly hippyish, dour or self-consciously wholesome about this…
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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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Vegetarian banh mi with marinated sesame tofu
It’s been like running a marathon this Christmas and New Year – cooking, eating, cooking and eating again. Then, with the spike in heat and humidity in Sydney lately, it’s hard to get the enthusiasm to cook or eat anything. With the weather like this, you really appreciate the genius of Vietnamese food, which is…
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Refreshing Snowpea Salad with Mint and Orange
I made this salad on the weekend after Sydney had experienced its second potentially catastrophic fire day this spring. Last Thursday was a day of 40 degree temperatures and searing hot winds. This was followed on the Friday by a spectacular cool change but, on Saturday, the memory of the heat still lingered. I had…
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Quick and Easy Green Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus in my time. Now the absolute best hummus is made with freshly-cooked chickpeas and ground when the chickpeas are freshly cooked. It’s even better if you use those tiny, nuggety organic chickpeas which are packed with flavour. I’ve got a couple of recipes for hummus on this site including…
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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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Refreshing Appetizer for Summer: Joanne Weir’s Cucumber and Feta Salad
Easter is early this year and just when our thoughts should be turning to chocolate and baking, Sydney is having an unseasonably hot spell of weather. The Easter holidays are just days away, I know I will feel compelled to eat some chocolate this weekend but, unless we get some kind of cool change, I…
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French Lentil and Onion Soup with Cheesey Croutons: A Kid-Approved Classic
The weather in Sydney has been crazy lately – first there was the record breaking heat in January, in February we were lulled into complacency by autumnal mildness only to be hit with a blast of heat and humidity around the middle of the month. On the first of March there was snap into cool…
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Tzatziki and Fried Zucchini/Eggplant Fritters | Greek Inspired Recipes
I’ve been having a bit of a born-again appreciation of tzatziki recently, which may be explained by the fact that I came back from my holiday to find two almost full large tubs of Greek yoghurt that needed to be used up immediately. Tzatziki is an excellent way to use up copious amounts of yoghurt…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 