creamy lentil soup recipe + a cookbook review
I don’t know about you, but there are two things I always do when I first lay hands on a new cookbook. One, I read the introduction to get a feel for who the author is, where they are from and where they are going to take me. Two, I start reading from the back […]
roast tomato and thyme macaroni ‘cheese’ recipe {gluten-free, vegan}
I received an email from a reader the other day after my last post, it read: “As much as it sound delicious, Dairy free it is not, since it has eggs.” I wont lie. I was dumbstruck and sat there starring at the computer screen scratching my head. Really? Dairy-free it is not, since it has eggs. I […]
vegetarian sushi recipe and tips…
So usually I only post recipes if I think I can add a new modern spin on a classic, or have come up with a combination I think it really amazing. But occasionally it’s quite nice to just highlight a dish that is perfect, just how it is. Sure, I went through a phase of […]
beetroot and aubergine pilau recipe
We eat rice in some form or other pretty much every day, whether it’s rice porridge for breakfast, rice milk smoothie, rice flour in baking, rice as a side or rice as the shining star. This dish is definitely the later. Rice forms the basis of this deceptively tasty dish, along with meltingly tender spiced aubergine (eggplant), […]
black bean, corn and coriander salad recipe
As I’ve watched each of our jalapeno chillies grow and ripen I’ve been thinking about what I might do with them first. This time last year we were packing up our life in NZ all ready to make the move over the ditch so I hadn’t bothered planting much in our garden that summer. The […]
roasted cherry tomato pasta salad with Kalamata olive dressing recipe
Since moving house, we’ve had two large boxes of picked tomatoes hanging around waiting for me to do something with them. See, when we left the old house we stripped our plants of all their tomatoes, even the green ones. Which have now been slowly ripening off the vine (and some, rotting sadly). What initially […]
roast eggplant, tomato and feta salad with pomegranate molasses dressing
So it’s been awhile since I’ve talked about our garden, or should I say pots? Moving house the week before Christmas means that we still haven’t found the time to do anything about making those new garden beds, to house all the transferred plants. But not too worry, most of them are doing okay where they […]
