vegetarian Archive

  • French toast with peaches

    French toast with Caramelised peaches

    It’s amazing what you’ll find at farmers markets. These peaches for example, at the end of their season, but on one of the last days of summer, fat and warm in the sunshine. On closer examination, at the tail end of the market, some were...

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  • Pink bowl with basil pesto

    Nine ways to use pesto

    It’s the end of summer here in Australia. It’s basil season. We’ve watched the Northern hemisphere with their record breaking snowfalls, their Snowcalypse, their winter Olympics and we’ve smiled, a little smugly perhaps, and picked basil. My smugness has gone. I forgot to take into...

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  • 640beet

    Beetroot Dumplings

    In retrospect, beetroot may not have been the best thing to cook the night before the landlord was due to do an inspection. Beetroot stains everything with its bright pink juice. But it’s that bright colour that makes it so beautiful and when I saw...

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  • 640corn

    Corn and Edamame beans with Miso butter

    The corn is ready! After watching it grow in my father’s garden for weeks now, I finally have some sitting on the kitchen bench proving patience is rewarded. Peeling back the layers of husk, and discarding the silk we used to festoon ourselves with as...

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  • Eggplant (aubergine) and chickpea salad

    Eggplant and Chickpea salad

    Has any one else heard of the “will marry for health insurance” woman? I got absorbed in the comments on the Lemondrop website for hours, between those who think she’s crazy, and those who are congratulating her on being upfront about what she wants. More...

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