I visited my best friend in Darwin last week. It wasn’t the most successful visit we’ve had – my friend has a toddler, and he was sick, and then he gave his lurgy to his dad, and then his mum.…
Recipe: Vegetable Pikelets
Tag: light meals
Recipe: Cucumber Noodles with Gazpacho Sauce and Guacamole
I am the worst hostess ever for Pasta Please. No sooner do I set the Make Your Own Pasta challenge, but I acquire a Herman starter and become obsessed with him, and then disappear into my politics blog for a…
Recipe: Winter Tuna Salad with Fennel, Orange and Hazelnuts
I love salads, but it feels weird to buy tomatoes and capsicums and cucumbers and other summer vegetables when it’s freezing cold outside and probably pouring with rain, too. So as the year changes, I start swapping out my summer…
Recipe: Cheesy Broccoli Tomato Rolls
Or, Cheesy Cheesy Cheese With Cheese on Top in a Cheesy Roll with some Token Vegetables. I may have got a bit carried away with the cheese here… When I was in primary school, our Tuck Shop had some pretty…
Recipe: Funghi Alla Pizza! (With bonus Cheat’s Pesto)
I am so very amused by this recipe title, but really, what else could I call it? If I called it ‘Mushroom Pizza’, that would sound as though I was talking about pizza with mushrooms on it. Whereas this, my…
Recipe: Sydney Road-Inspired Breakfast Granola
I was going to call this ‘Middle Eastern-inspired Breakfast Granola’, but let’s face it, the closest I’ve been to the Middle East is in fact the local Turkish shops (of which, admittedly, there are quite a few). On the other…
Recipe: Inside-out salad
At last! An entry for the Vegetarian Lunchbox Challenge! And it’s only taken me three weeks since I thought of this recipe to actually make it and write it up… This recipe is inspired by all the beautiful tomatoes I’m…
Anyone Can Cook Vegetarian Food: A Lunchbox Challenge!
Now that most of us are heading back to work, we are back in the land of packed lunches. Or buying lunch, which I try not to do, but which is still occasionally irresistible. Therefore… The February 2013 theme is…
Recipe: Half-baked Fruity Muesli
I just couldn’t resist the pun in that title. Sorry. But it really is half baked, because I did toast about half of what went into this muesli while leaving the rest untoasted. The reason for this is that we…
Recipe: Eggplant with Tomatoes and Yoghurt
This recipe is inspired by our local Turkish restaurants, which we don’t go to nearly often enough, actually. They all have some variation of eggplant ‘yogurtlu’, eggplant that has been fried in oil until it is sweet and caramelised, and…