Tag: quick and easy
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Quick Lacquered Tofu with Green Beans and Cashews Recipe
You can never have too many braised tofu dishes in your repertoire. This one from Deborah Madison is a particularly good one. It’s a wok and rice pot meal that gets dinner done fast in the mid-week lull when all cooking inspiration has disappeared. I like to serve this with brown rice, but I’ve temporarily…
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Quick and Easy Nigerian Kidney Bean Stew Recipe
The two can bean dinner is a staple of vegetarian home cooking. You can never have too many quick meals up your sleeve using a couple of cans of beans. It’s fast and convenient and if you compare, preparing a meal of beans and rice to ordering and picking up takeaway, the canned beans and…
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Magical Strawberry and Rhubarb Crumble | Quick and Delicious
There is something magical about the combination of strawberries and rhubarb. I recently went out for dinner and had a strawberry, rhubarb and ginger mocktail which was truly sensational. Strawberry and rhubarb jam is my all time favorite jam. A couple of months ago I made a stupendous strawberry and rhubarb pie to take to…
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Easy Vegan Greek Lentil Soup Recipe
Last weekend, Sydney was buffeted by a one of those once-in-a-hundred-year storms that seem to happen every few years now. The coastal suburbs took the brunt of the bad weather while, in the west, we escaped the worst of the damage and the storms and bad weather moved south to poor Tasmania, where the full…
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Perfect Greek Village Salad Recipe
Greek salad is something I’ve eaten a lot of over the years. It’s a classic salad that I love, but when I order it out at restaurants it’s more often then not, a disappointment, made with second rate feta and flavorless tomatoes. When I make a Greek salad at home it’s something I would never…
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Best Simple Pancake Recipe for Holiday Breakfast
I’ve been meaning to post this recipe for a while but have procrastinated because, seriously, do we really need another pancake recipe out there on the internet? I can’t even pretend this is the ultimate pancake recipe, but it is the simplest pancake recipe I know: the sort of recipe you can whip up in…
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Quick and Easy Jam Tart Recipe for Pantry Clean-Out
I like jam but … I don’t really love it, so we always seem to have half-eaten jars of jam in the fridge hanging around for months, and unopened jars in the pantry lurking around for a few years. This tart uses up quite a bit of jam so it’s a good thing to have…
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Delicious Quick Refried Beans with Store Cupboard Ingredients
The best refried beans are those made with beans you have soaked overnight and simmered until they are meltingly soft, and then fried with with onion spices and lots of olive oil. Like these refried black beans. In an ideal world, we would always soak and cook our beans but we live in an imperfect…
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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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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 