Tag: mushrooms
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Vegetable Ragu: A Frugal Italian Delight
This vegetable ragu is known as fake sauce (sugo finto) and is a great example of cuisina povera or the frugal food of Italy. In this vegetarian ragu sauce, meat is replaced with vegetables. The flavor is layered into the sauce with a slow cooked soffritto of onions, carrots and celery, which is deglazed with…
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Traditional Family Nut Roast: A Christmas Favorite
I’ve made this nut roast for a number of years and it has become a standard at our family Christmas table along with the lavishly rich and always popular Party Potatoes. A few years ago, instead of making party potatoes for Christmas lunch I reverted to my former Christmas standard – Russian salad. The sad…
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Retro-style Vegetarian Foie Gras: Lentil & Walnut Pâté Recipe
I spent Christmas and New Year with my family in Tasmania and, like all mainlanders, came back slightly besotted with the beauty of the island and the quality of the local food. All the stone fruits and berries were in full flight and there were roadside stalls selling local fruit and oysters everywhere. On a…
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Braised tofu with shitake mushrooms, tomatoes and peas
This is one of my favourite comfort food dishes. It’s the combination of rice and peas, like the Italian risi e bisi, that I find particularly irresistible. There is something very cleansing about this dish, which really allows the silken tofu to shine. The recipe comes from Kylie Kwong’s Simple Chinese Food – the original…
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Healthy Brown Rice Bowl with Mushroom, Tofu, and Wombok Slaw
That’s it: I’m officially over chocolate for the next month at least. Even the thought of baking anything sweet makes me blanch a little. Easter was lovely and all that, and because of its lateness this year, it even collided with the Greek Orthodox Easter, rolled on into Anzac day (not a favourite holiday of…
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Comforting Polenta Scones with Vegetable Cobbler
It’s turned cold again in Sydney, so it’s the perfect time and the best weather conditions to indulge in a bit of old-fashioned vegetarian comfort food like this vegetable cobbler. It’s gorgeously rich and warming but not the sort of food I make or eat that often, so I had to forage around the back…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 