This is a very simple recipe, from a book called Reds, Whites, and Greens, by Faith Willunger. As you might have gathered from the title, it’s a book of Italian things to do with vegetables. I’m yet to find a…
Category: dairy-free
Review: Wild Sourdough: The Natural Way to Bake, by Yoke Mardewi
As I type this, my sourdough starter has been living with me for eight days, and it is not dead yet! On the contrary, it’s sitting on a bench in the kitchen, looking hopeful, because tomorrow is baking day. I…
Leftovers for Lunch: Roasted Vegetable and Chickpea Salad
I love roast vegetables. About once a fortnight, I will do a huge roast vegetable fest – one enormous tray of potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions and beetroot, cut into chunks and the potato and beetroot parboiled, and then…
Recipe: Spiced Pear Upside-Down Gingerbread Cake
This recipe is adapted from the Gingerbread book I reviewed a week or so ago – I meant to post a recipe to go with the review, but then I made the cake and forgot to photograph it and then…
Recipe: Lemony Garlicky Fractal Broccoli with Pasta
I wanted to call this creamy lemony garlicky floral fractal broccoli with pasta, but I thought that might be a tad long. I haven’t cooked or eaten Romanesco Broccoli before, and the recipes I had all seemed to involve cutting…
Recipe: Roman Pine-Nut, Cheese and Herb Purée
This recipes is adapted from Roman Cookery: Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens by Mark Grant. Somewhere, I know, I have the vegan version of this recipe, in which I substituted tofutti cream cheese for the feta, but I can’t find…
Recipe: Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Cupcakes
Today my workplace is holding the Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a cancer research fundraiser which is very popular with hungry scientists! Since I work in a medical research institute looking after a couple of cancer research Divisions, we take this…
Recipe: Almond, Rosewater and Cardamom Cupcakes with Raspberry Icing
This recipe is what happens when I make the almond milk from Less Meat More Veg, and then don’t know what to do with it. It’s sort of adapted from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World, which I love to…
Recipe: Chocolate for Breakfast
The official name for this recipe, which comes from Less Meat, More Veg, is ‘Chocolate, Coconut and Raspberry Spread’, but I like to think of it as Chocolate for Breakfast, as that is basically the point. You can say all…
Review: Less Meat, More Veg, by Rachel de Thample
You can’t imagine how good our house smells right now. There’s just something about the smell of any kind of stock cooking that makes a house smell wonderful. Add to that the smell of stewed apples and melted chocolate and…