Tag: peas
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Easy Indian Carrots and Green Peas with Fresh Coriander | Aromatic Vegetarian Side
Peas (almost always frozen) were a staple vegetable when I was growing. I’m still partial to peas as a vegetable and I always have a packet of frozen peas in the freezer, though I don’t dish them up for dinner quite as much as my mum used to. I particularly love peas and rice as…
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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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Karen Martini’s Spring Time Minestrone Primavera
Late October and early November in Sydney, the weather is changeable but in the past few years, the weather shifts have been more extreme. Last week, we went from fiercely hot, bush fire days with the air filled with smell of ash in the air, to super storms and snow in the mountains, and the…
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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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Macaroni Peas: Fast, Easy, and Delicious Recipe from River Cottage Veg
I really didn’t know much about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall until I started reading his book River Cottage Veg, Everyday! From his introduction, I gathered he was some kind of British TV foodie and something of a notorious carnivore of the hunt-shoot-and-fish-your-own variety. In recent years, he’s become evangelical on the need to eat more veggies for…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 