My alarm went off on Sunday morning just as I was in the middle of dictating a recipe for vegan choc-chip cookies to my Italian cousin Rosangela, whom I haven’t seen for nearly 30 years, and who, moreover, lives in…
Category: vegetarian
Recipe: Balsamic Strawberry Parfait
Strawberries again. What can I say? They are still deliciously cheap. This is one of my favourite desserts. I like to pretend its healthy, but that’s basically a lie. I also don’t measure anything anymore, so this is a bit…
Recipe: Strawberry and Almond Cupcakes with Crystallised Rose Petals
Strawberries are incredibly cheap at the moment – cheaper than I’ve seen them in several years, in fact. And they are also very good, even the supermarket ones. I have no idea why this is, but that isn’t stopping me…
Recipe: Bread Pudding
This recipe comes from my Austrian grandmother, and is basically a really delicious way to use up stale bread. As a child, this was one of my favourite foods – its spicy stodginess reminded me of Christmas pudding, and it…
Recipe: Almond and Berry Cake for a Big Birthday
We currently have the two radiation guys living on our floor at work, and one of them turned 60 on the weekend. My Divisions are very cake-oriented and we felt it would be terrible – terrible! – if someone living…
Recipe: Apple and Berry Crumble
This is my favourite weeknight dessert. It’s hot and fruity and tastes healthy and the leftovers are lovely for breakfast. And it makes heaps, which means you have breakfast for *days* afterwards. It’s not really a standard crumble recipe –…
Leftovers for Lunch: Risotto cake
The other reason I haven’t been blogging much recently is that my meals have either been fairly mundane or fairly unsuccessful. This does not lend itself to food blogging as well as you might think. One of the less successful…
Recipe: Macaroni Cheese with chipotle pepper, leafy greens and cruciferous vegetables
Ah, cheesy pasta bake. The best comfort food in the world, not least because you can put practically anything in it successfully. Pasta bakes are my go-to dish when I have a lot of random vegetables in the fridge and…
Recipe: Sunshine Yellow Lemon Cake
This cake is incredibly easy to make, and really, really lemony – it verges on being too sour, in fact, which may possibly have something to do with the fact that I didn’t follow the recipe and also to do…
Recipe: Anzac-y biscuits for (nearly) everyone
I have this friend who is very tricky to cook for, because she and her family between them are allergic to everything. Well, perhaps not everything, but it’s certainly true to say that cooking for her involves avoiding all the…