Tag: Vegetarian
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Slow Cooked Spanish Chickpeas Recipe
Canned chickpeas are a staple in the vegetarian store cupboard, not only are incredibly convenient, they are an absolute life saver when you need to make a quick and easy dinner and the cupboard is almost bare. These Spanish chickpeas meet the super easy and simple ingredient criteria but they really benefit from a long,…
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Baked Rice with Pomegranate and Olive Salsa Recipe
I’m a late-comer to Ottolenghi fandom, I had the standard complaints about his books; too many exotic ingredients, pedantic and complicated recipes. This all changed when a friend gave me Jerusalem as a birthday present a few years ago. Middle-Eastern food is my thing, suddenly, the exotic ingredients weren’t so exotic and I didn’t have…
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Broad Bean and Chickpea Fritters with Fragrant Green Tahini
It’s broad bean season and I never feel I do fresh broad beans justice but I’m trying to change that this year. If you get over the hassle of the double peeling they are a fantastic celebration of spring. This broad bean and chickpea fritters are similar to falafel but they don’t require all the…
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Australian Big Brekkie: Green Eggs Recipe for Sunday Surfing Delight
Australians love their big cafe breakfast, in fact I’m going to go out on a food ethnography limb and say we invented the modern cafe breakfast. As a nation we don’t have that many claims to culinary glory but the big Sunday surfers’ brekkie washed down with loads of coffee or lashings of tea is…
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Spectacular Mashed Beetroot with Yogurt & Za’artar Recipe
When I was a kid you judged a good party by the eye popping colour of its food offerings. Any decent party spread was a riot of colour – pink and green lamingtons, fire engine red frankfurter sausages, fairy bread, jellied orange quarters, green and red pickled onions, bowls of garish lollies and iced fairy…
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Meera Sodha’s Fresh India Beetroot Raita Recipe
Beetroot is one of my favorite vegetables so it’s kind of surprising I don’t have that I don’t have that many recipes for beetroot on this blog. I’ve just come back from a week away and I ate two outstanding beetroot dishes in my travels. A beetroot risotto from my favourite cafe in Wagga Wagga,…
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Sally Wise’s Plum Worcestershire Sauce Recipe
This fabulous Plum Worcestershire sauce from the queen of preserves Sally Wise, comes via my Tasmanian sister-in-law, who makes it regularly using the small red cherry plums that grow rampantly in the backyards of Hobart. I made this sauce two years ago using cherry plums from a friend’s tree in Bathurst but this year, all…
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Parsi Peach Chutney Recipe for Preserving Summer Bounty
February is the month for preserving the summer bounty in Australia, unfortunately in Sydney this is also a month of hellish heat and humidity, the making and bottling of chutneys, jams and sauces is always a sweat drenched affair. At the end of last week we had a brief respite from the heat and I…
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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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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 