purple carrot salad with feta + herbs recipe
I’ve had a lovely few days off blogging filled with excited kids ripping into presents at an alarming rate, ice-blocks (aka icy-poles or popsicles) in the backyard and family gatherings. At the last second we decided to have our Christmas celebrations at our new house, I know, I know… mad eh only 1 week after […]
spiced pumpkin, millet & radicchio salad recipe
If you’ve been a reader of this blog since it began, firstly, thank you! That sure is a whole lot of reading you have done over the past year and a half! And secondly you may remember way back at the beginning when I shared a wonderful little independently published cookbook that was co-written by a friend of mine Rosie […]
vegan green papaya salad recipe
If I could eat just one salad for the rest of my life, it would be green papaya salad hands down. It’s a crush that started many years ago when I first moved to Australia as a keen and somewhat naive teenager. Up until then I had never even heard of eating papaya (paw paw) green. […]
vegetarian dolmades recipe
As I sit here typing, my mother-in-law is busy working away in the kitchen making her famous Vietnamese pickles. There are jars of carrot and daikon lined up along the bench as well as a whole sink-full of an Asian green I’ve never known the name of. It’s a little hard to get in the mood to […]
tadka dahl recipe
Recently I picked up Gordon Ramsay’s~Great Escape, at a book sale in town. Now, I’m not usually one to be sucked into the whole ‘celebrity chef thing’, and with this book nothing has changed. I buy a book for its content over the name of the author any day. When I picked this book up and started […]
homemade pickled ginger recipe
We love sushi in this house. Actually some would say we live off the stuff! When the kids were little living back home in Raglan and being gluten-free the only place we could really ever take them ‘out’ for lunch was to the local sushi shop. They kinda had no choice in the matter; they […]
tofu, herb & rice noodle salad recipe
One of the things I most look forward to come spring-time is the abundance of fresh herbs in the garden. Gone are the cold winter days that keep herbs lying dormant; with all this spring freshness comes new growth and I couldn’t be any happier! Of my favourite herbs; mint and coriander (cilantro) are two […]
