Traditional America-land potato salad is something I always avoided at picnics growing up. Gloopy, mayo-saturated, oddly sweet, purchased from the grocery store deli counter, sitting in the sun for ages - it never did it for me. Luckily my Mom would use a vinegar-based dressing whenever she made potato or pasta salads - so much better! Now salt and potatoes go hand-in-hand, so when thinking about what to do with the crisp and salty samphire I received in a goodie bag a while back it just made … [Read more...]
Tangy Mustard Dressing
Growing up there were only two foods I wouldn't touch - mustard and mushrooms. Ironic isn't it that I'm pickier now than I was as a child... At some point I discovered the magic that happens to mushrooms when you cook them - lets be honest, it probably happened due to either Chinese take-away or pizza - and it was game on from that point forward. I still won't touch raw mushrooms but any and all cooked mushrooms are welcome on my plate. Mustard was a tougher one and who knows what … [Read more...]
Moroccan Lamb Shanks & Gremolata
There is something wonderfully satisfying about a slow cooked stew in winter. Given, I don't eat this one myself but every now and then RJ asks for it by name and I simply can't resist. I've mentioned before that I'm a veg-aquarian and, until very recently, it's been roughly 15 years since I've eaten meat. However the consumption of meat has always been a texture / flavour / heath issue for me, never an ethical one, and I really enjoy cooking with it. We do try to buy organic and … [Read more...]
Drink Coffee Do Good on Friday 7 June with CafeSmart
We hear it all the time, "you can make a difference in someone's life for less than the cost of a cup of coffee..." Well thanks to CafeSmart, an annual initiative from charity StreetSmart, on Friday 7 June 2013 coffee won’t just kick-start your day, it could change someone's life. Really. "How will my cappuccino/macchiato/latte/tall black/short black/flat white/mocha caramel whoozywhatsitcino help others?", I hear you ask. $1 from every coffee sold in participating CafeSmart cafes … [Read more...]
Vegan Chai Pumpkin Latte
Crazy coffee-chain creations, and coffee at all for that matter, chai from powders, sticky sweet flavoured lattes - they just aren't for me. A clean straight-up green chai, a pure and floral white, even an occasional peppermint - that is much more my cup of tea, pardon the pun. But this? This is the goodness of chai spices and the decadence of pumpkin all wrapped up in a creamy warm mug of magic for Tea Time Tuesday. I probably could should have called it a Pumpkin Pie Latte... Now if … [Read more...]
Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles
Back in 2010, well before the 'I Quit Sugar' craze took hold, we cut the sweet stuff out of our diet. It was part of a larger change in how we eat and in one fell swoop we cleaned out the cupboards and went cold turkey. (If you're interested, you can read all about it here). The first few weeks were challenging to say the least but the results were remarkable. I've learned a bit over the past few years, now use rice syrup instead of apple juice concentrate amongst other things, and while I'm … [Read more...]
Vegetarian Black Bean Chili
I've been part of the Secret Recipe Club for a couple months now and one thing I'm really enjoying, aside from discovering new blogs, is actually making the things I find instead of simply filing them away for later. What a novel concept. I get inspiration for recipes everywhere I look, and I'm constantly pinning things to make one day, but SRC has meant that at least once a month I make a new dish from a new blog. This month I was assigned to Fried Ice and Donut Holes. A passionate … [Read more...]
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