From May 5th – 9th, thousands of Australians will eat on $2 a day for five days – the equivalent of the extreme poverty line. It’s a way to better understand extreme poverty, while making a difference overseas. Live Below…
Category: foodie challenges
Recipe: Vegan Choc-Cross Buns with Tahini and Apricots
I take Easter, and particularly Good Friday, very seriously. It’s not just because of the sheer number of professional commitments I have around Easter (and Good Friday is pretty much the peak of these, as I tend to have a…
Recipe: Absurdly Cute Meringue Easter Bunnies
This is yet another one of those recipes that happens when I decide to make lemon curd, and then have to figure out something to do with all the egg whites. I was just going to do plain meringues, but…
Anyone Can Cook Fabulous Vegetarian Food: Easter Inspirations!
So apparently the Tofu Challenge turned out to be kind of an April Fool’s joke on my part, since I never did manage to create a tofu recipe (though I did cook with tofu *three whole times*, so at least…
Anyone Can Cook Fabulous Vegetarian Food: Non-Terrifying Tofu!
OK. This is it. This is where it gets scary. I’ve been playing, I admit, at the shallow end of the vegetarian pool. I buy my farmers’ market veggies, I use legumes with grains to build whole proteins, and I…
Anyone can cook vegetarian food: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
If you are anything like me, then sometime back in October or November you planted a lot of tomatoes. And, if you are anything like me, you are now staring at the jungle of tomato vines that are taking over…
Recipe: Raw Zucchini Spaghetti with Sicilian Nut-Meat Balls
Oh, God, it’s hot. It’s hot, it’s hot, it’s hot. I hate this weather. I had this enticing introduction all planned to tell you about how I came up with this recipe and why I think it is just too…
Holidays
Not many recipes around here recently, because I’ve been enjoying the last week of my holidays fairly quietly, meeting up with people, trying to get into a habit of daily yoga and language practice (in the very faint hope that…
Recipe: Raw Zucchini Pasta with Mushroom and Nut Pesto
Have you ever created a recipe and had it go really well and then sat down at the table and realised how you could have made it ten times more awesome? Well, you’re going to have to wait until next…
In My Kitchen – January, 2014
Celia over at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial hosts a monthly sticky-beak fest called ‘In My Kitchen‘. It’s a heap of fun to peer into other people’s kitchens, marvel at the lack of dirty dishes (I secretly hope that, like…