Tag: Vegetarian
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Ultimate Tabbouleh and Smokey Baba Ganoush Recipe
Tabbouleh and baba ganoush would have to be my two favourite things to eat in the world. If I were given a choice of my last meal, that is what I would choose – I would need some flat bread to eat with them and, perhaps, if I was feeling greedy I would ask for…
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Party Potatoes: The Ultimate Comfort Food for Christmas Day
I don’t think it’s a good idea to get too fancy with the food on Christmas day. What you need is lots of homey soul food – salads, seafood, cherries, mangoes (and more cherries), pavlova laden with summer fruit and some kind of potato dish, of course. Potatoes, roasted, baked or in a salad, are…
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Authentic Parsi Tomato Chutney Recipe: Zingy, Sweet, and Irresistible Chutney Delight!
I’ve found it hard to get into the swing of Christmas this year. Even before the incomprehensible horror and sadness of the Newtown school shootings, I just couldn’t seem to get motivated to buy presents, bake biscuits or even pull out our Christmas tree from the top of the cupboard for my son to decorate.…
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Barbecued Tofu Steaks with Sesame Noodles and Pickle
Got a pesky vegetarian or, god forbid, a vegan coming to one of your meat lovers Christmas barbecues and you don’t know what to cook for them? This marinated tofu is the answer. While you could just let your vegetarian guests eat salad, it is nice to offer them a bit of cooked protein so…
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Vegan Spinach Zucchini and Pea Fritters: Karen Martini Recipe
When I was a kid, fritters were an easy Sunday night meal. My mother always made two kinds: lamb fritters, made with leftover lamb from the roast the night before, and corn fritters (with creamed tinned corn). We ate them with tomato sauce – that was pretty much dinner and, I have to say, I…
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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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Macaroni Peas: Fast, Easy, and Delicious Recipe from River Cottage Veg
I really didn’t know much about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall until I started reading his book River Cottage Veg, Everyday! From his introduction, I gathered he was some kind of British TV foodie and something of a notorious carnivore of the hunt-shoot-and-fish-your-own variety. In recent years, he’s become evangelical on the need to eat more veggies for…
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La Pizza Rossa Recipe: Tessa Kiros’s Hearty and Satisfying Deep Dish Pizza
If the world has been engaged in a pizza war – thin against thick crust it would seem the thin crust has won decisively, Neapolitan-style pizza rules and the deep-dish square pizza is decidedly passé. The thinner the crust the better, at some of the cooler pizzerias the crust seems to be barely there, after…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 