Another surprise dinner visit by the coffee fairy allowed me to experiment with something I have always wanted to try: israeli couscous. Which is not actually couscous in the couscous sense, more like a pasta…except not. The advice on the packet was somewhat cryptic (and mostly in hebrew) but I understood that the best way [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vegetarian’
Recipe: Middle eastern eggplant
Posted in Recipes, tagged vegetarian on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recipe: Veggie Noodle Soup
Posted in Recipes, tagged soup, vegetarian on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I should put a disclaimer on this that, with the exception of 1) caspsicum stuffed with rice and cheese and 2) chargrilled capsicum, I usually don’t like cooked capsicum. These are bell peppers for those in the US and Canada, and peppers for those in the UK; there’s just something about cooking them that turns [...]
Recipe: Glorious Green Risotto
Posted in Recipes, tagged vegetarian on May 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
While I’d like to tell you that I am sitting at my computer this sunny winter Sunday morning, filled with a sense of moral righteousness and obligation to catch you up on my doings…at the moment what I am really doing is trying to avoid doing the vacuuming, sweeping and weeding that someone in this [...]
Recipe: A Bread Winner
Posted in Recipes, tagged salad, vegetarian on December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It may disappoint you to know that Fattoush is not actually exotic and effective swear word (“you great big fattoush). Nor is it an affectionate dimunitive (“my little fattouschka”). In fact, Fattoush (or fattush, fatush or fattouche, according to wikipedia) is actually a middle eastern bread salad. “Bread” + “salad” without “sandwich” in there too? [...]
Recipe: Cupboard love couscous
Posted in Recipes, tagged salad, vegetarian on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are some things that should be staples in every pantry…or at least in every pantry of anyone who can eat them. Things like a jar of semi sun dried tomatos in oil, vegetable stock, couscous, chickpeas (in a tin for quick dishes), evoo in a bottle and a spray can, a jar of pitted [...]
Recipe: Flatbread Bianca
Posted in Recipes, tagged vegetarian on September 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My first experience of pizza bianca was in its guise of rosemary, rock salt and EVOO sprinkled onto a woodfired pizza base. So simple yet so utterly tasty. I have since seen it in other guises, but they don’t tempt me to try them like that first time I have seen versions with oregano instead [...]
Recipe: Blow them away with the size of your…pantry
Posted in Recipes, tagged vegetarian on September 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This one is a bit of a cupboard love recipe that you can make without needing a pantry the size of MBFTIHNM Nigella’s nor as stocked with interesting and gourmet goods (Who keeps tinned figs and vacuum packed chestnuts handy in their pantry, I ask you?) I works for one but it also scales really [...]
Recipe: Silverbeet and Olive Quiche
Posted in Recipes, tagged vegetarian on September 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This recipe was adapted from a recipe given to my by the Divine Miss K’s. Ingredients Quiche pastry shell (see recipe for olive oil pastry) Bunch silverbeet, chopped Handful pitted spanish olives, chopped 50-10gm cheese, grated 1 x onion, chopped 6-8 eggs, beaten Fry onion until soft and then add silverbeet. Cook until silverbeet has [...]
Recipe: Olive oil pastry
Posted in Home-made Sunday, Recipes, tagged vegetarian on September 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday’s home-made sunday project was to teach myself how to make olive oil pastry. I already know how to make butter pastry and for something like this I would ordinarily be slack and get a sheet of pastry from the freezer. But yesterday I decided to make a quiche and had an Eureka moment about [...]
Recipe: Green Debutante Soup
Posted in Recipes, tagged garden, soup, vegetarian on August 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
a.k.a. How to use up a fuckload of silverbeet. As previously mentioned, the silverbeet has been a regular provider chez moi. This is not a bad thing at all, but it does force one to invent ways to use up its prolific multitude of leaves. One of the best and most tasty ways I have [...]
