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: zucchini
Recipe: Ratatouille for a ratty week
Taking a break from the travel diaries to write down a recipe that has been a bit of a lifesaver for me this year. It tastes like comfort food, it’s full of vegetables, it creates copious leftovers, and it takes…
Recipe: Sunken Blueberry, Macadamia and Lime Cupcakes
I always have my suspicions when a recipe calls itself a ‘sunken cake’. I am sure that this is meant to convey a sense of dense, richness, almost of decadence – the sense of a cake that is so full…
Recipe: Chocolate Rye Zucchini Bread
I’ve been wanting to make chocolate bread for a while, but the ganglion cyst on my wrist makes kneading dough very painful, so it’s all been on the back burner. But having made Pizza Serafina last week for the Great…
Anyone Can Cook Fabulous Vegetarian Food: Zucchini Zeitgeist and Merry Marrows
Ah, February. The season of smoky heat and bushfires (she says, looking dubiously out the window at the pouring rain), of nights too humid for sleep, of days that are long but growing just a little shorter, of children going…
Recipe: Teeny Tiny Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcakes with Spices
I think we all knew it wouldn’t take long before I felt compelled to create a recipe modelled on those fantastic vegetable-based cakes from Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartache (also known as My Favourite Cookbook Ever Ever Ever). Of course,…
Recipe: Gnocchi with Broccoli pesto and Tomatoes two ways
Ooh, tomatoes two ways. So MasterChef, don’t you think? But one of the points of this recipe really is that one gets to treat the tomatoes essentially as two separate ingredients with separate tastes – the slow-roasted tomatoes (and yes,…
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…
Christmas Leftovers Recipe: Zucchini Pesto Surprise muffins
The thing with making a lot of antipasto dips and spreads is that then you have to work out what to do with leftover dips and spreads. And yes, one could always have them on bread, but that stops being…
Recipe: Roast Zucchini and Tomato Pasta
This is such a lovely easy dinner – very fresh and full of flavour. It’s also an excellent way to use up zucchini or tomatoes that are abundant but a bit watery – roasting concentrates the flavour, the balsamic vinegar…