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…
Category: vegetarian
Days when one doesn’t feel like cooking…
Am I the only person, I wonder, who, upon coming into possession of (another) cookbook tends to wind up having takeaway or pasta bake for dinner? It happens every time. I look at one gorgeous recipe after another, and want…
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: Croissant and raspberry pudding with lavender
This is something I basically made up last night, having foolishly let some croissants go stale, and being in need of things to make with that raspberry and lavender butter. It’s related to bread and butter pudding, and I actually…
Recipe: Flavoured Butters
You all knew, didn’t you, that once I had seen Not Quite Nigella’s post on buttermaking, it would only be a matter of time before I had to start fiddling with it? In fact, by the time I got up…
Recipe: Choc-Chip Cookies for Scientists who have had a Very Bad Day
One of my very nicest postdocs just discovered that the freezer had defrosted, taking all her experiments with it. Her partner, another particularly delightful postdoc, had a Bad Grant Day. And one of the PhD students came into my office…
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: Red Cabbage, German style
This recipe comes from Dr Oetker’s German Cooking Today, with a few little tweaks by me. I don’t know how to describe it, because to me it’s the thing you do with red cabbage. (Apparently, there is no other thing…
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…