Tag: Vegetarian
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Chickpea and Zucchini Fritters Recipe
I truly believe you can’t have too many fritter recipes up your sleeve. These chickpea and zucchini fritters from Donna Hay came about from google search when the only vegetables I had in the vegetable drawer was a lone zucchini and a bag of carrots. Because I am always prepared for the apocalypse I always…
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Green Bean Salad with Fried Almonds
Generally when I make a green bean salad I keep it pretty simple I cook the green beans, blanche them in an ice bath then dress them with olive oil and vinegar season them salt and pepper and that’s it. For special occasions when I want something a bit fancier I often make this green…
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Palestinian Cauliflower and Cumin Fritters
I was a kid who loved veggies, pretty much all vegetables – broccoli, carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, brussel sprouts! (Why do people hate on brussel sprouts, they’re delicious and they look like tiny fairy cabbages) I particularly adored the cauliflower gratin my mum would make to accompany a big family roast dinner. Recently my older…
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One-Pot Spinach Chana Dhal: Healthy and Delicious
I’ve been going through my old recipe folder and unearthing old recipes from my collection of old newspaper clippings, handwritten recipes and photocopies. In the days before online recipes, any home cook worth anything had one of these folders or notebooks stuffed with family favourites and a lot of recipes that were firmly in the…
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Delicious Black Barley Salad with Cauliflower and Pomegranate
Black barley is an ancient grain, unlike modern barley where the husk is removed the husk on black barley is kept intact. This makes it a nutritionally rich source of vitamins B and E, calcium, iron and potassium. It is also cholesterol free and a good source of fiber and selenium. I recently cut out…
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Cozy Japanese Eggs and Cabbage Recipe
I used to make these Japanese eggs and cabbage a lot many years ago, but they were always part of a larger meal. About a month ago I made them on a cold and rainy day as a lunch for myself and I’ve been making them once or twice a week since then. This is…
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Wholesome Seed Bars: A Healthy Sweet Treat Recipe
I’ve made these seed bars a few times as a wholesome sweet treat. The first couple of times I dipped them in chocolate, which made them a slightly decadent and delicious treat. This time, I was making them for this post and I kept procrastinating about the chocolate and ended eating the batch without the…
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Pasta with cauliflower, walnuts and feta
I used to make this pasta a lot. I was reminded to revisit it after many years because I had a couple packets of Girolomoni wholemeal spelt pasta in pantry. That is the thing about this dish, you need the heft of a good quality wholemeal pasta, to stand up to robust flavors of the…
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Iraqi White Bean Stew
This white bean stew from Meera Sodha makes a great midweek dinner. If you have some canned white beans on hand you can get get dinner on the table in half an hour or so. Simple, sustaining and delicious – you can’t go wrong with that. Note: If you have some of the spice mix…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 