Tag: Vegetarian
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Delicious Southern Corn Cakes Recipe with Fresh Salsa and Whipped Feta
I seem to spend a fair amount of time on this blog whinging about the weather and, in particular, the heat. In the build up to Christmas in Australia, along with the stress of buying presents and the preparing and over consumption of massive amounts of food, comes with an added bonus of extreme heat…
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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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Easy Whipped Feta Spread for Summer Entertaining
I read a lot of American food blogs, so I’m constantly filing things away in my head to try next winter (or summer) when they become more seasonally appropriate. There are times when the northern and southern hemisphere food connect a little but, as we move into the festive food seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas,…
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Indian Style Black Bean Dahl Recipe
Like a lot of vegetarian cooks, my pantry shelves are full to bursting with an enormous range of ingredients and, at this stage in my life, I want to bring it all in and consolidate my pantry staples into some kind of semblance of order and usability. When I read a recipe which includes yet…
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Refreshing Snowpea Salad with Mint and Orange
I made this salad on the weekend after Sydney had experienced its second potentially catastrophic fire day this spring. Last Thursday was a day of 40 degree temperatures and searing hot winds. This was followed on the Friday by a spectacular cool change but, on Saturday, the memory of the heat still lingered. I had…
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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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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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Perfect Finger Food: Authentic Maltese Pastizzis for Parties
I always think of pastizzi as being a particularly Sydney food phenomenon. This may be because what is now known as The Original Maltese Cafe in Darlinghurst has been making pastizzis in Sydney since 1952. The cafe has expanded in size and number of locations over the years but they still make a mean pastizzi.…
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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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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 