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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Vegetarian food can be awesome. I mean, for one thing, most cakes are vegetarian – not to mention chocolate! – and I don’t think anyone is going to seriously claim that cakes and chocolate are not awesome. And savoury vegetarian…
