Things I love in a beetroot salad: goat\’s feta, toasted peppitas (pumpkin seeds) and mint. To make it a great salad, allow an extra hour or two to roast the beetroot. That means peeling and spiralising the beetroot before roasting it in the pre-heated oven (180C) to semi-caramelise over 45 minutes to an hour. While […]
Until recently, there was only one cauliflower salad for me (the first below) – but last week I had a delicious one in a cafe so I want to try it at home. It is the second recipe below. Cauliflower Salad 1: One of the important ingredients in this salad is jalapenos, which of course
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This is my go-to salad if I feel like one without planning ahead. I often have these ingredients. rocket goat\’s feta (love Meredith\’s) sweet cherry tomatoes, halved fresh parsley leftover ratatouille and leftover pearled couscous (if any) optional: half a cup of small, wholegrain couscous if no leftovers optional: olives, shallots and jalapenos dressing: olive
This is my favourite soup and one for the pressure cooker. I think its success is due to the smoky flavour from the bacon, which comes from an organic butcher. Maybe it wouldn\’t work so well with other (unsmoked) bacon, I don\’t know. 1 onion, chopped 3 garlic cloves, chopped 1 cup (about 500g) bacon,
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This soup usually makes an appearance over winter with its warming lemongrass and ginger, nourishing coconut milk, and good-for-guts lentils. It\’s easy to do in the pressure cooker. 1 large onion, red or brown, chopped 1 butternut pumpkin, skinned and chopped 3 or 4 tbs red lentils 1 can (400ml) coconut milk 1 stick of
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I user the pressure cooker for this one but the recipe originally came from my mum\’s thermomix book. It serves 4 as an entrée or 2 as a light main. 3 garlic cloves, skinned and chopped 1 onion, chopped 500g+ zucchinis (3 large or 4 medium), loosely chopped 500g water 1 stock cube 10g butter
This simple soup is only worthwhile if you can find abundant and cheap watercress. For some reason in Australia, watercress seems to be more of a garnish than a main vegetable, with a price tag to match. This is a good soup for pregnant women due to all the ginger, which helps with nausea, plus
This is a quick fix, like having a cup of tea, just a bit more filling! The miso packet stays in the fridge and between white or red, I probably prefer white. 1 seaweed sheet (nori, also used for sushi) cut into squares 1 tbs miso half a stem of shallots, chopped soft silken tofu,