Tag: Vegan
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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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Discover Poha: A Unique Gluten-Free Breakfast Option
Breakfast is one of my favorite meals – not the boring weekday muesli or toast breakfast, but those weekend two-cups-of-coffee, corn-cakes, poached-eggs-and-pancakes-you-don’t-need-to-eat-for-the-rest-of-the-day kind of breakfasts. But, as much as I love these lavish cafe brekkies, I have often wondered why cafes have never expanded their offerings with some breakfasts from around the world and are…
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Authentic Trinidadian Dahl and Homemade Hot Sauce Recipes
I was driving to a yoga class the other day when I heard on the radio the Britain had major flood alerts all over the country and I had the idle thought: Gee some floods would be nice. While I’m not really yearning to be flooded out of my home, if I had to pick…
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Lentil, Fennel, and Cress Soup Recipe
Soup season is on the wane in Sydney but in between the heat spikes, there is still the opportunity to enjoy a nice bowl of soup. This lentil soup is from my archives, a photocopy – from the 1990s when people actually used to photocopy recipes from books. I remember the friend who passed on…
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Quick and Easy Green Hummus
I’ve made a lot of hummus in my time. Now the absolute best hummus is made with freshly-cooked chickpeas and ground when the chickpeas are freshly cooked. It’s even better if you use those tiny, nuggety organic chickpeas which are packed with flavour. I’ve got a couple of recipes for hummus on this site including…
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Easy Spiced Chickpea and Carrot Salad Recipe
Canned chickpeas are an essential part of the average vegetarian kitchen store cupboard. Of course, in an ideal world, you soak and cook your chickpeas from scratch but we don’t live in an ideal world and nothing beats the convenience of being able to open a can of chickpeas and make a quick meal. The…
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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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Old Fashioned Anglo-Australian Veggie Curry Recipe from The Cook’s Companion
I’ve been thinking about posting this recipe for veggie curry for months now and I always decided against it because, to be honest, it is actually a bit daggy. But then I thought, well, this blog is all about food I actually cook and eat and, at the right time and place, there’s nothing better…
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Heartwarming Vegan Swedish Yellow Split Pea Soup Recipe
Sometimes, it’s hard to get up the enthusiasm to write much about a recipe, not because I don’t love it, but I feel like enthusing too much about something as humble and simple as this split pea soup, is kind of ridiculous. What more can I really say about it except that it’s my new…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 