Tag: olive oil
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Turkish Swiss Chard Fritters Recipe | Ottolenghi Inspired
I’ve got a plethora of silverbeet (aka swiss chard) in my garden at the moment. I planted quite a lot after the flooding rains last year when greens became incredibly expensive. Now greens are incredibly cheap at the shops and I’ve got a bumper crop of silver beet in the garden to try and eat…
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Traditional Turkish Red Lentil Soup Recipe with Aleppo Pepper Infused Oil
This is a quick post of a soup that I discovered on Ozlem Warren’s Instagram account which showcases the very best of Turkish food. In keeping with the cost of living crisis we are endlessly being told about this is a simple, frugal meal. What sets it apart is the knob of butter melted in…
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Easy Vegetable Soup with Pearl Barley for Winter
On the weekend my niece and I went into the city to search for some cool masks, just in case Sydney goes into a second lockdown. In the end we managed to buy one mask each at The Social Outfit in Newtown which operates on a ‘buy one, give one’ model, for every mask you…
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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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Ottolenghi’s Easy Party Olive Oil Crackers
When ever I make my own crackers I realise how rubbish even the expensive high quality commercial crackers are. Nothing you can buy compares to home-made ones. I love making Swedish seed crackers but these olive oil crackers are super simple, a three ingredient cracker that you can bring together with minimal fuss. I made a…
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Easy Armenian Potatoes as a Party Side
I used to make these Armenian potatoes a lot many years ago. They’re a great dish for a party, super simple and stupendously delicious. I made these for a dinner party on the weekend, as part of falafel feast. I was going to make spicy Lebanese potatoes but these Armenian potatoes were just as good…
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Nivik: Armenian Chickpeas and Spinach Recipe
This recipe comes from one of my tried and true cooking bibles Tess Mallos’s – The Complete Middle Eastern Cookbook. First published in 1979 and republished over 45 times since, it remains one of the great iconic Australian cookbooks and has influenced generations of home cooks. The great thing about Tess Mallos’s book and the…
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Mastering the Flavor Bomb: Frank Camorra’s Signature Sofrito
I recently got a new refrigerator and nearly doubled my freezer space overnight. My old tiny freezer was always chaotic, with things crammed in so that something would always fall out when I opened the door. Now I have three storage drawers which make feel ultra organised and virtuous and I don’t have to hold…
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Vegan Cashew Hummus: Perfect for Summer
We’re big hummus eaters in our house, up to this date I’ve got three chickpea hummus recipes on this blog, a quick green herb hummus, a labor intensive but super creamy hummus with peeled chickpeas and our latest favorite an Israeli style hummus . I’m not a hummus purist though, my sister makes an awesome…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 