Tag: Vegetarian
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Tasty Za’artar Biscuits with Cheddar and Parmesan Recipe
It’s hard to go wrong with cheese biscuits, they are invariably, insanely, delicious. But how could you go wrong, cheese biscuits are pretty much baked cheese with a bit of butter and a flour thrown in to hold it all together. These cheese biscuits also have the exotic twist of za’artar and sumac sprinkled on…
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Vietnamese Pickled Carrot Recipe for Banh Mi and More
When I was a kid, before I started school, my mum would take me into town for the big weekly grocery shop. We lived on a farm and the weekly shop was a big event. My mum and I would dress up in our Sunday best and for lunch we would get take away cheese…
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Zucchini Raita – Eastern Vegetarian Cooking
This raita is from one of my ancient, falling apart cookbooks, Madhur Jaffrey’s Eastern Vegetarian Cooking, where it goes by the name courgettes in yoghurt. In our house it’s called zucchini raita. Jaffrey claims she eats it by the spoonful by itself and this I can believe. It’s a mellow, mildly spiced raita that’s extremely…
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Best Red Velvet Cake with Macadamia Oil Recipe
It’s spring in Sydney the jacaranda trees are in bloom and as always in November it can go from searing heat to wild, wet and chilly within a day. In the scenic hot spots round the city tourists are causing traffic chaos as they stand in the middle of the road to try and get…
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Nivik: Armenian Chickpeas and Spinach Recipe
This recipe comes from one of my tried and true cooking bibles Tess Mallos’s – The Complete Middle Eastern Cookbook. First published in 1979 and republished over 45 times since, it remains one of the great iconic Australian cookbooks and has influenced generations of home cooks. The great thing about Tess Mallos’s book and the…
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Homemade Chipotle Mayonnaise: Quick and Easy Recipe
Chipotles in adobe are smoked and dried jalepeno chillies canned in a rich, thick sauce of tomatoes, vinegar, garlic and other spices. They’re hot, smoky, sweet, tangy and spicy which is a pretty unbeatable combination of flavors. They’re a sensational way to spice up black beans, guacomole, refried beans, burgers, enchilada sauce or even hummus.…
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Spicy Korean Tofu: A Simple Recipe with Gochugaru
I recently discovered a Korean tofu factory that sells fresh tofu from the factory door. It’s a little hole in the wall place next to the Korean corp of the Salvation Army in Belmore. They do a roaring trade selling basic white tofu, silken dessert tofu with ginger sauce and fried tofu pockets in various…
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Marcella Hazan’s Essential Tomato Sauce Recipe
This tomato sauce with onion and butter is from Marcella Hazan is astonishingly simple and delicious. It’s been posted a million times on various food blogs and raved about countless times, but that’s no reason not to do so again. I’ve made this sauce many times over the years, it reminds me of the spaghetti…
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Easy Refried Black Beans Recipe for Tacos
We eat a lot of refried beans at our house. Tacos or burritos are one of the most kid friendly vegetarian meals going. A taco spread is an instant party and like all good party food it has the added advantage of allowing kids to build their own meal. I’ve seen children make a taco…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 