Spicy Eggplants
It’s rare for me to make a recipe verbatim from a recipe book. I can’t help but tweak this and omit that depending on what I have on hand … Continue reading
Warm Spring Greens Salad
The young spring vegetables seem sweeter than ever this year. Just one look in the crisper drawer and I saw the perfect accompaniment to the Tasmanian salmon fillets I’d … Continue reading
Roasted Vegetable Burgers
This is a brilliant way of using the leftover vegetables from a roast dinner, in fact, these burgers are so good, I’d prepare them especially to serve as a vegetarian … Continue reading
Moroccan Rice Salad
Balanced and nutritious, this salad can stand alone as a tasty light meal. It’s the perfect way to use upleftover rice. I find it impossible to cook the correct amount … Continue reading
Vegetable Frittata
I’ve decided that “Please Pass the Recipe” will feature an occasional series of posts based on creative dishes using up leftovers. I loathe waste for an assortment of reasons, both … Continue reading
VEGETABLE LASAGNE
This dish has been a regular on our dinner table for close to 30 years. There was never a written down recipe (until now.) I set out to make a … Continue reading
Semolina Gnocchi
I think this dish must be the ultimate Italian comfort food. Warm, soft and cheesey with luscious crispy edges, this “pasta” makes a light and luscious meal, delicious with ratatouille, … Continue reading
HUMMUS
I have never ever tasted a commercial hummus which matches a homemade dip for flavour and texture. Some are bland, some leave you with flatulence, some are “tinny”, while a … Continue reading
CHEESEY CAULIFLOWER SOUP
As a child I loathed cauliflower, Brussels sprouts too. Unfortunately, natural compounds in both develop bitterness when over cooked and my Mum was of the old school that boiled all … Continue reading
CARROT AND PEA CURRY
I love vegetable curries, quick to prepare, cheap ingredients and yum, yum, yum! It was a cold, bleak and wet day in Melbourne yesterday. I had absolutely no reason to … Continue reading
SAAG PANEER: Spinach and cottage cheese curry
Nearly every curry house in my hometown serves a version of this dish, I have tasted the good, the bad and the downright ugly! There are endless recipes for saag … Continue reading
COCONUT CARROT SOUP WITH AN ASIAN TWIST
I planned to make carrot soup yesterday, plain and simple carrot soup. However, after I threw in some ginger, garlic and orange zest, my thought turned to the flavours of … Continue reading
FILO TRIANGLES WITH SPICED CHARD
When I was a kid, my Mum supplemented the family meals with home grown veg. Melbourne winters in the 1950s and 60s were cold, no snow, but frequent frosts. Not … Continue reading
LEEK and POTATO SOUP
It’s cold outside, squally showers keep passing through, can’t complain though, it is winter. I’m snug inside, the fire is blazing and a pot of soup is warming on the … Continue reading
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