Tag: Rice
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Greek Spinach and Rice Recipe with Lashings of Olive Oil
I’ve just come back from a long two month trip to India. I love Indian food but I got very homesick for food from home. I particularly missed olive oil. I dreamt of lashings of olive oil in – salads, hummus, babaganoush, tabouli and in particular this dish – Greek spinach and rice, which was…
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Easy Onion Pilaf Recipe for Cuban, Indian, Mexican, and Middle-Eastern Cuisine
This is my son’s favorite rice and the rice I always serve with black beans, it goes perfectly with Cuban black beans but it mixes and matches with Indian, Mexican, Middle-Eastern – take your choice. It also makes an excellent emergency store cupboard meal, when you have no idea what to cook – add…
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Nourishing Red Lentil and Rice Soup Recipe | Vegan Friendly
It was Mother’s Day on Sunday and Sydney was shrouded in smoke from three days of burn-offs in the Blue Mountains. As a result of the smoke haze, I developed a hacking cough. I come from a family on my father’s side with a history of tuberculosis and other lung diseases. My great grandfather died…
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Delicious Vegetarian Minestrone Soup Recipe
I haven’t posted for a while, for couple of reasons – firstly, I’ve been madly busy but, secondly and most importantly, it’s been so unseasonably, ridiculously hot over the past month, with a record-breaking run of temperatures over 26°C for weeks on end. Global warming sucks and makes a mockery of all the change of…
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Vegetarian Gallo Pinto: Traditional Costa Rican Red Rice and Beans
Gallo Pinto – rice and beans – is a one of the most well known dishes from Costa Rica. I’d never heard of it until a few months ago, when I was browsing through Jamie Oliver’s Super Food Everyday, where he showcased a 94-year-old Costa Rican man, who gave as one of the reasons for…
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Healing Rice Broth: How to Make Vegetarian Congee for Illness
I spent almost the entire Australia day long weekend in bed with some kind of undiagnosed ’flu/virus/headache ailment. Although I did manage to get up and watch the first set of the men’s final of the Australian Open on Sunday night before collapsing back into bed, I spent the weekend with that sense of boredom…
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Simple Peruvian Lentils and Rice Recipe with Red Onion Salad
There are times when the sheer weight of all the available food options becomes overwhelming. Last week, I was sick and went on a bit of congee and brown rice bender in order to regain a sense of balance. Then I made this simple lentils and rice with red onion salad and ate it three…
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Festive and Flavorful – Vegan Spanish Rice with Tomato and Paprika
There is something so festive about Spanish rice that it turns the most ordinary meal of beans and rice into an instant fiesta or party. This recipe comes comes via the recipe site SImply Recipes, which is my ‘go to’ source for Tex-Mex food. The secret to a good Spanish rice is to saute the…
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Delicious and Nutritious Cuban Black Beans Recipe with Turkish Carrot Pilaf
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why Cuban black beans taste so good. They’re incredibly easy to make, cheap and you can easily make a big pot of them and feed a crowd. Just eating them makes you feel like your doing yourself a healthy favour, but not in some dour low-fat, heavy wholemeal kind of…
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