cooking: May 2015

Sunday, May 31, 2015

October 26, 2008: Chilli & Lime Roasted Chickpeas

a distich of recipes yesteryear Susan V before these year, but didn't decease approximately to trying them until be'ershevaboheme6 had a shot as well as loved them.

Their descriptions had me anticipating a crunchy, nutty snack but that's non what I ended upwards with. My chickpeas soaked upwards the lime juice nicely, dried as well as shrunk as well as dried as well as shrunk, but didn't genuinely dry out out to crunchiness. They were tasty as well as tender, to last sure, but hardly the moment substitute I'd been hoping for. Perhaps I simply need to laid upwards them longer as well as dehydrate them fifty-fifty further, though I fright they'll shrink away to nix if I try!

October 27, 2008: The Vegeterranean

Elise submit her thesis recently. I was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than thrilled when, the next week, she presented me a carte du jour together with gift, thanking me for my help. Along amongst a cute lilliputian potplant, at that spot was this vegetarian cookbook: The Vegeterranean past times Malu Simões together with Alberto Musacchio.

Simoes together with Musacchio, a married couple, are the creators together with owners of Country House Montali, a Michelin-starred vegetarian eating theater together with hotel inward Umbria, Italy. In this book, they enjoin the storey of their meeting, coupling, together with the evolution of the Country House, equally good equally sharing many of Malu's master copy recipes from the restaurant.

As you lot powerfulness imagine, these recipes aren't just the sort of affair you lot knock upwardly for dinner afterwards a hateful solar daytime at work. Many cause got multiple stages together with involve fiddly techniques such equally pipage , pasta- together with pastry-making. But the vantage for such efforts is evident - the thick glossy pages characteristic stunning full-colour photos of each dish. Here unopen to that I'm aching to gustatory modality :

alua, an Indian-style breakfast of semolina, fruit together with nuts;
crespelle fantasia, low-cal pancakes stuffed amongst aubergine cream, served amongst a cheese sauce;
torri di zucchine ripiene con crema di piselli, zucchini towers stuffed amongst pea cream together with roasted almonds;
ravioli sud tirolesi, a spinach together with white patato dough ravioli stuffed amongst 2 kinds of mushroom together with topped amongst juniper cream together with shallot sauces;
coxinhas encantadas, a Brazlian-style fried pastry stuffed amongst a creamy herbed eggplant mix;
cannoli di radicchio e pere, radiccio, pear together with smoked cheese rolls; and
their almost pop dessert - volcano di cioccolato, a chocolate volcano cake served amongst liquorice H2O ice cream together with kiwi sauce.

There's too an instructive introductory chapter on basic ingredients, techniques together with foundation recipes, such equally béchamel, choux pastry, stock, puff pastry together with fifty-fifty seitan. I noticed a lot of cheese throughout the book, though the recipe for a vegan Sacher powerfulness good warrant the encompass toll for those eschewing beast products.

I establish the background stories throughout the mass overly verbose together with florid, though at that spot is i tale of vegetarian triumph over Italian beauracracy that's worth a read. We haven't soundless tried whatsoever of the recipes, but you'll endure the commencement to consider them hither on this weblog when nosotros do. For now, I've taken pleasance merely from curling upwardly on the couch amongst this sizable mass together with imagining life inward a glamourous, rural, technicolour together with vegetarian-friendly Umbria that may good exclusively be inside its pages.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

October 27, 2008: Baked Zucchini In Addition To 'Bacon' Risotto

Patricia at Technicolor Kitchen. The regard of a baked risotto suits my lazy cooking way perfectly - all the non-stop stirring required for a criterion risotto agency I can't wander aimlessly roughly the loungeroom piece dinner's on (or that I can, only dinner ends upward ruined). This is much easier: mix everything inwards a baking dish, bake, stir in addition to serve.

Now I'm no risotto purist, only this came out too every bit whatever stove-top stir-a-thon risotto that we've tried to brand earlier - the grain's stocky in addition to tender, the zucchini flavor spread deliciously throughout in addition to the salty mistaken bacon strips adding a flake of texture on top. The whole dish was perchance a footling on the salty side, only that's in all probability downwards to our lazy powdered stock every bit much every bit anything else. For an slow in addition to delicious pile of comfort food, this is a weeknight winner.

Baked zucchini in addition to bacon risotto
(a vegged upward version of Technicolor Kitchen's recipe)

2 cups arborio rice
5 cups vegie stock
60g butter
500g zucchini, chopped into footling half-moons
3/4 loving cup grated parmesan
1-2 tablespoons chopped parsley
salt in addition to pepper
145g soy bacon rashers

Preheat the oven to roughly 200 degrees.

Mix together the rice, stock, butter in addition to zucchini inwards a baking dish, embrace in addition to bake for roughly one-half an hour. The risotto mix comes out of the oven quite liquidy, only thickens upward pretty apace in ane lawsuit the cheese is stirred inwards in addition to it starts to cool a tiny bit.

Add the parmesan, salt, pepper in addition to parsley in addition to stir for a few minutes until everything starts to thicken up.

While the risotto is cooking tike upward some thinly sliced strips of mistaken bacon to drapery artistically across the clumps of risotto yous dish up.

Friday, May 29, 2015

October 31 - November 4, 2008: A (Long) Weekend At Wye River

Fandango for a piece of cake lunch: scrumptious Mediterranean foccacia for me as well as apricot as well as appointment toast amongst cinnamon cream cheese for Cindy. Fandango = awesome.

roast white patato as well as chickpea curry, which finally heated upward only at the remainder of the gang pulled into the driveway.

Otway Black Snail, that feasts on worms as well as other snails.

our failed sweat at white patato gnocchi.)

After regular visits from the Rex parrots as well as crimson rosellas, the sulfur-crested cockatoos discovered us on our in conclusion morning time at the house. They entertained Cindy as well as I until it was fourth dimension for us to pack upward as well as striking the road, winding our agency dorsum to Melbourne (via breakfast inwards Lorne as well as only about successful op-shopping inwards Lorne as well as Geelong).

In each of the showtime ii years nosotros lived inwards Melbourne Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2008: H5N1 (long) weekend at Wye River

It seems clear to me that five twenty-four hours weekends are the agency of the futurity - charge upward a big identify amongst friends, accept only about expert books as well as ruby-red wine, teach for the strange wander inwards a nearby national common as well as gorge yourself on repast later on repast of delicious food. What a life.

(I realise this is meant to hold out a nutrient weblog - Cindy volition salve the twenty-four hours before long amongst 3 delicious recipes that provided snacks, lunches as well as dessert over the weekend.)

Thursday, May 28, 2015

November 1, 2008: Three-Shades-Of-Brown Bubble Slice

very long weekend away, the crew agreed that each couplet would ready a dinner, dessert too to a greater extent than or less lunch. Michael's already shown off the lip-smacking cashew curry he brought along for dinner, too this is an off-the-menu extra snack that I made. It's a variation on my onetime identify unit of measurement favourite, bubble slice. I went for a dissimilar final result this time, hoping that walnuts too dates would complement the dry reason wattleseed that I wanted to include. I also replaced much of the butter too sweetener amongst to a greater extent than or less leftover kokosnoot cream. It was a mixed success - the walnuts too dates worked together nicely, but I couldn't gustation the wattleseed at all too at that topographic point was also much of the rich binding ingredients for the sum of rice bubbles too nuts involved. Even so, at that topographic point weren't whatsoever leftovers to debate amongst on our arrival home!

Three-shades-of-brown bubble slice

1 loving cup walnuts, chopped
3/4 loving cup dates, chopped
three cups rice bubbles
120mL kokosnoot cream
four tablespoons golden syrup
four tablespoons crunchy peanut butter
60g butter
1 tablespoon dry reason wattleseed

Grease a medium-large tray. In a large bowl, stir together the walnuts, dates too rice bubbles.

Melt the kokosnoot cream, golden syrup, peanut butter too butter inward a saucepan over medium heat, select to the boil too and then simmer for five minutes. Stir through the wattleseed.

Pour the sweetness butter mixture over the dry out ingredients too stir to combine. Press the mixture into the tray too refrigerate for at to the lowest degree an hour. Slice into squares too serve.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

November 1, 2008: Tofu Waldorf Salad

long weekend. We've had success amongst mock tuna salad inwards the past times but were looking for a change. This tofu waldorf salad from Joni of just the food was simply the ticket. The grapes rest fresh together with juicy for days, together with the tofu, pre-fried amongst garlic, filled the identify amongst a warm, savoury aroma. Though I intended this mainly equally a sandwich filling (insulating the breadstuff from sogginess amongst approximately infant spinach leaves), I liked it fifty-fifty to a greater extent than without the breadstuff - simply plonked on a plate amongst a handful of the spinach leaves.

Tofu waldorf salad

500g extra theater tofu, chopped real finely
5 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 loving cup grated carrot
2 stalks celery, finely chopped
1/2 loving cup walnuts, roughly chopped
1 loving cup grapes, halved
1 loving cup mayonnaise (I used less)
salt together with pepper, to taste

Start past times chopping the tofu, equally above. Heat the olive fossil oil inwards a frypan together with saute the tofu together with garlic until they're golden (this volition accept nigh 10 minutes). Set them aside to cool. The frying/cooling stages are a practiced fourth dimension to produce the residuum of the chopping together with grating directed above.

Combine all of the ingredients inwards a large bowl, together with chill earlier serving.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

November 2, 2008: A Lovely Lemon Slice

long-weekend dessert contribution. I hunted through my extensive listing of bookmarked recipes for something a niggling special, dissimilar from my green chocolate-based cakes in addition to cookies, that could nevertheless live on baked ahead of fourth dimension in addition to transported without likewise much fuss. Ellie (aka cakestorm.

I baked this inwards a much smaller tin than it was intended for. Consequently, the base of operations was rather thick in addition to the lemon topping took far longer to laid than the recipe directed. Worse, the base of operations was overcooked in addition to rather tough. The icing carbohydrate in addition to pistachios that Jeffery suggests equally a garnish seemed a fight fussy for this weekend away, thence instead I simply packed a box of frozen mixed berries equally a garnish. The overall final result was pretty lip-puckering! Nothing that a drinking glass of milk couldn't fix, mind.

For all that, the lemon topping was genuinely very, real good; tardily to set together (just whisking, no custard-style heating), the correct residual of sweetness in addition to sour for my taste, in addition to alongside a delectable viscid golden crust where the piece met the pan. It fifty-fifty won the approving of lemon-dessert-obsessive Jo-Lyn.

I hunted through my extensive listing of bookmarked recipes for something a niggling especial Nov 2, 2008: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lovely lemon slice

A lovely lemon slice

Base:
1 1/2 cups patently flour
1/2 loving cup icing sugar
grated rind of ane lemon
180g cold, unsalted butter
2 tablespoons iced water

Lemon topping:
6 eggs
3 cups castor sugar
grated rind of iii lemons
1 loving cup lemon juice
1/2 loving cup patently flour

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C; lightly butter a baking dish in addition to business it alongside paper.

The base of operations is similar a shortcrust pastry. Put the flour, icing carbohydrate in addition to lemon rind inwards a nutrient processor in addition to pulse to mix evenly. Cut the butter into cubes in addition to add together it to the mix, pulsing until the mixture has the texture of breadcrumbs. Trickle inwards simply a niggling water, in addition to procedure the pastry until it simply forms into a dough ball. Press the pastry dough into the baking dish - I used the dorsum of a spoon to shine it out. Bake the base of operations for well-nigh eighteen minutes, or until it starts to color (this took me a niggling longer since my base of operations was thick).

Turn the oven downwards to 150 degrees C, in addition to teach going alongside the topping. Whisk together the eggs in addition to carbohydrate inwards a large bowl, thence the lemon juice in addition to rind, nevertheless whisking. Sift inwards the flour in addition to whisk again. When the base of operations is relatively cool, pour over the filling in addition to supply the piece to the oven, this fourth dimension for 35-40 minutes (more similar 50 minutes for me) until the topping is set.

Store it inwards the fridge - you lot tin cutting it most neatly spell it's cold, though I remember it tastes most pleasant at room temperature.

November 7, 2008: Baba Ii

Edit 20/05/2012: Baba has been replaced past times burger articulation The B.East - it has a veg selection but nosotros didn't love it.

return visit to Baba on Fri night, this fourth dimension inwards a grouping of 8 peeps from my workplace. I had my sights firmly assault the mixed dessert plate as well as planned my savoury courses accordingly - again, the smokey eggplant ezmesi shared some alongside breadstuff ($5), followed past times the sublime spiced pumpkin pide ($14). Meanwhile, Miki ordered the Imam bayildi ($15, above) - a claypot of eggplant as well as love apple tree ragu crowned alongside a deep-fried labne ball. This, similar the other non-vegetarian claypots ordered some the table, was non huge as well as would convey benefitted from some breadstuff or couscous on the side. Nevertheless, it was a delightful mix of flavours as well as textures - Miki loved it, but was generous plenty to laissez passer on me a taste.

Baba has been replaced past times burger articulation Nov 7, 2008: Baba II

Michael ventured farther into the pide menu, choosing a combination of Milawa goats cheese, roasted beetroot, stinging nettle puree as well as pickled turnip ($14). This was some other winner, alongside Michael singling out the vibrant pickled turnip equally the star.

Sadly, Baba's service hasn't been streamlined at all since our final visit. The staff seem perfectly efficient, as well as I tin solely assume that at that spot simply aren't plenty of them on the flooring on whatever given night. Much of my grouping grew restless equally I doggedly waited to select grip of someone's oculus alongside the operate of requesting the dessert menu. I zoomed inwards on the Tatli mezze, which the bill of fare states equally requiring a minimum of ii people, as well as bullied Michael into sharing it alongside me. (I figured other people mightiness desire a taste, too, ane time they saw it!) Then disaster struck - equally I excitedly placed the companionship alongside our waiter, he said that nosotros couldn't convey the Tatli mezze unless everyone at the tabular array ordered it. For us, the minimum wasn't ii - it was eight.

I consoled myself alongside an companionship of cinnamon-sugared donuts alongside pistachio as well as thyme dear ($8). They took then long to teach far that, fifty-fifty given the other service hitches, I wondered if they'd been forgotten. When the donuts did appear, though, they were super-fresh as well as hot as well as at that spot were plenty to part around. I'm non a big dear fan, as well as at that spot was a lot of it here, but the thyme brought something unique to it.

There's no denying that the nutrient at Baba rocks, but man child is it delayed gratification! Next fourth dimension I'm upwards for Levantine on Lygon, I mightiness brand a reservation at Rumi.

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You tin read most our previous view to Baba here.

Monday, May 25, 2015

November 8, 2008: The Hymeneals Hotel

EBC excepted of course), for certain at that spot was no such affair inwards the wasteland due west of the trainline. But Cindy is to a greater extent than trusting than I, too figured that our tipster Adrian truly was a regular reader too had our best interests at take in too non some machiavellian pub possessor hoping to lure us to West Brunswick too forcefulness feed us T-bones too parmas. Luckily, she was right.

As Adrian had informed us, the Union Hotel is a newly refurbished pub sitting a few blocks due west of Sydney Road amongst a history of beer too tits which has been all but wiped out inwards a pretty fashionable makeover. The fit-out is nearly consummate now, too the interior is low-key, but non without style, piece the beer garden looked spacious too welcoming (if entirely we'd noticed it earlier finishing our food!). The staff were real friendly too attentive (a piddling equally good attentive - they were quick to notice us photographing the carte du jour too real curious equally to why), too at that spot was a skillful multifariousness of beer on tap.

All this was real promising, but the existent cardinal to our hearts is through the food. The Union has a comprehensive carte du jour - a broad attain of vego starters, a pasta too some marinated tofu on the carte du jour too and thence a blackboard chock-full of specials, including some other handful of vego starters too mains. Score.

We started things off amongst zucchini fritters amongst light-green tobasco aioli ($6). For some argue I was imagining these equally beingness variety of cheesy - to a greater extent than similar some haloumi too zucchini fritters that I've had somewhere before. Instead, they were similar giant battered zucchini chunks

A few weeks agone an electronic mail popped into our inbox promising us veg Nov 8, 2008: The Union Hotel

The batter was crunchy too delicious providing some welcome texture around the zucchini's soft flavours. The star though was the tobasco aoli - tangy too spicy without beingness truly hot, I could convey happily dunked anything inwards this sauce.

We had quite a few choices for mains - passing on the vegie lasagne too the broccolini pasta, too settling on 1 alternative from the specials board too 1 from the measure menu. I went for the measure alternative - grilled marinated tofu amongst sauteed Asian greens amongst a salad of mixed leaves, herbs, carrot too enoki mushroom amongst a tamari too chilli dressing ($16).

This was 1 of Adrian's specific recommendations, too it was an outstanding pick - perfectly cooked tofu, loads of fresh vegies too a beautiful sweet/spicy dressing. This variety of dish belongs at a specialist vegetarian restaurant, non a pub - highly recommended.

Cindy couldn't become by the pumpkin ravioli amongst a mushroom, sage too butter sauce ($12).

These were some soft piddling parcels of sweetness, slathered inwards a very, real rich sauce. It'd locomote wise to monastic nation a salad on the side of this, but we'd already committed ourselves to the fritters, thence Cindy had to run through it amongst entirely a few sneaky bites of my salad for some lightness. Still, you'd locomote difficult pressed to detect equally good many amend $12 pub pastas.

We were equally good far gone for dessert, too the sweetness options were much to a greater extent than express than the savoury. But too thence who goes to the pub for sweets? Beer plant much amend amongst chips than amongst H2O ice cream. The Union Hotel is nearly guaranteed to locomote a success - I'm certain there's a huge catchment of people due west of Sydney Rd crying out for delicious, reasonably priced pub nutrient inwards a laid-back, friendly atmosphere. The staff did know nosotros were powerful too influential nutrient bloggers, thence they may convey turned on the charm but for us, but it's unlikely - we'll convey to become dorsum inwards disguise but to brand sure.

Address: 109 Union Street, Brunswick
Ph: ? - they may non convey a telephone yet - it wasn't busy plenty to postulate a booking anyway.
Website: http://www.theunion.com.au/home.htm (presumably yet nether evolution - Federal Reserve annotation a remnant of their old, not-safe-for-work past: http://www.theunion.com.au/links.html)
Price: Entrees $6-$14, Vegie mains $12-$16

Sunday, May 24, 2015

November 9, 2008: Babka

After beingness role of our Baba trip on Fri night, Mike free-associated his agency to suggesting Babka on Dominicus morning, together with nosotros muddled our agency along at 10ish to lastly sense of savour only about of the famed Babka breakfasts. Surprisingly, nosotros were able to strut direct inwards together with nab ourselves a tabular array - when Cindy together with I stimulate got previously tried to instruct a breakfast tabular array hither we've been scared off past times the queues together with headed for wwwash together with Ici instead. No such problems this fourth dimension - whether this reflected the growing seat out of hip breakfast eateries inwards the expanse or a turn down inwards Babka's character was unclear.

The card had our hopes upward - a choose-your-own-adventure mode eggs card amongst the commutation additives (beans, mushrooms, avocado), only about intriguing sounding Georgian baked beans, French toast, croissants together with a whole board of specials.

associated his agency to suggesting Babka on Dominicus morn Nov 9, 2008: Babka

The star of the breakfast specials was the menemen, a scrambled eggs filled amongst tomato, chilli, fetta, mint together with parsley on only about of Babka's ain foccacia ($12). I ordered it inwards a flash (although the Georgian beans had made things interesting for a moment) together with was suitably impressed: good cooked eggs, delicious chunks of fetta, together with a multifariousness of flavours from the herbs together with the chilli. All mopped upward amongst the fresh together with lightly toasted foccacia. I should cite the size - this is a pretty big breakfast for $12, together with if you lot gibe off until well-nigh xi to swallow it, it should run across you lot through until dinner.

Cindy of bird had her eyes on the sugariness side of the card - non the French toast (although Jo did guild it, together with constitute it a tad disappointing), but the Russian blintzes ($9.50).

Two footling parcels of deliciousness filled amongst sweetened cottage cheese, sultanas together with lathered inwards a citrus sauce. I didn't fifty-fifty instruct a taste. She raved well-nigh the citrus sauce and, despite initial fears that at that spot was an insufficient book of food, was good stuffed past times the rich cheesy packages.

It's every bit good worth noting the drinkable exceptional of the morning: a lemongrass together with ginger iced tea served amongst lemon together with mint over ice. This barely tasted similar tea at all, instead beingness described every bit the best lemon cordial ever.

I was quite taken amongst only about of the tiffin options on Babka's card (mushroom stroganoff, tater together with mushroom dumplings, asparagus together with provolone cheese tart), together with our breakfast was pretty impressive, together with then I'm expecting a farther trip pretty soon.

Address: 358 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9416 0091
Licensed
Price: Breakfast $6-$12

Saturday, May 23, 2015

November 9, 2008: Pizza Iii

Piedemonte's on our agency abode from Babka. Yet things went awry when I pulled out ingredients mid-afternoon to brand the dough. First, this recipe. Though it's a white pizza he elected to starting fourth dimension amongst slather of Lycopersicon esculentum paste, together with thence worked his agency upward through a diverseness of chunky-cut mushrooms amongst around fresh parsley, marjoram together with garlic. Finally he topped it amongst pieces of pungent, gooey taleggio cheese. I convey a fractured human relationship amongst such cheeses at best, together with this i packed a existent punch - it was fifty-fifty a trivial equally good potent for Michael! Given the odor that lingered throughout the household inwards the proceeding 36 hours, there'll hold upward no to a greater extent than taleggio at abode for a loooong time.

My pizza's a faithful replication of this apple, onion together with vegan cheddar pizza I saw at Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit. Working from the bottom up, it features pesto, caramelised balsamic crimson onions, capers, sliced apple tree together with mozzarella-style Cheezly. The combination of store-bought pesto together with caramelised onions came out a trivial oily, but it's a damn fine flavor mix! The cheezly was a subtle but undeniably creamy addition. I've since tried it grilled on toast - inwards that province of affairs it melted admirably.

Friday, May 22, 2015

November 10-11, 2008: Grape Cake

annual lab culinary competition, I circulated the collected photos from the effect together with volunteered to collate a cookbook of everyone's entries. Since thus the recipes accept been ~~flooding~~ trickling in, together with i of the kickoff was i of the most surprising! Lab fellow member Bonnie has been residing overseas for many months but emailed this grape cake recipe equally a belated contest entry from afar. It'd hold out nice, I thought, to make, photograph together with part some this cake earlier finishing the cookbook. And that's what I did when nosotros had a invitee speaker on Tuesday afternoon.

The see of a plainly cake amongst whole grapes suspended inside it wasn't precisely rocking my world, even thus this was perfect afternoon tea fare. The grapes were thus soft that i someone asked me if I'd peeled them, together with the hints of lemon together with cinnamon were only heavenly. Though the recipe suggests garnishing this cake amongst icing saccharide or cream, I'd almost prefer non to - for me, its charm lies inwards its simplicity.

Grape Cake a la Bonnie's Mum

200g butter
1 loving cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 lemons, juice together with rind
2 1/2 cups self raising flour
a pinch of salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups seedless grapes, sliced inwards half

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Generously grease a springform cake tin.

Cream the butter together with sugar. Mix inwards the eggs, vanilla, lemon rind together with juice inwards turn.

Sift together the flour, tabular array salt together with cinnamon. Gradually crunch it into the cake mixture. Fold through the grapes.

Pour the cake batter into the tin hand notice together with bake it for near fifteen minutes, earlier lowering the oven temperature to 180 degrees C. Continue baking until the edges of the cake start to come upwards away from the tin hand notice (this took a farther thirty minutes for me, I think).

Thursday, May 21, 2015

November 11, 2008: Vege2go Ii

Update 27/1/2019: Vege2Go is forthwith trading equally a seller of pre-made meals in addition to snacks rather than equally a eatery or cafe.

wrote most them dorsum inwards February, citing their calzoni pastry in addition to chocolate cake equally their weaknesses. One curt calendar month afterward (especially curt - it was February!), they announced novel improved recipes for both inwards their e-newsletter! I'm non claiming that they were clamouring for my approving inwards particular, but their webmaster Stefano did us the courtesy of stopping past times in addition to leaving a comment. It all combines to pigment a flick of vege2go cheerfully absorbing in addition to acting on well-intentioned criticism, no?

So it's with unopen to embarrassment that I acknowledge that it took us nine months to teach dorsum at that topographic point in addition to own those novel recipes. So long, inwards fact, that the calzoni aren't fifty-fifty on the bill of fare whatsoever more!

made meals in addition to snacks rather than equally a eatery or cafe Nov 11, 2008: Vege2go II

Nevertheless, at that topographic point were to a greater extent than than plenty other dishes to select amongst. Though I was pretty tempted past times the pastry triangles in addition to the mushroom polenta bake, I ultimately went for the arancini with napoli sauce ($8.95). It proved to live a tasty in addition to hearty repast - non excessively oily or cheesy.

Michael ordered the sides for both of us past times going for a discounted repast - a principal in addition to 2 sides volition gear upward yous dorsum $14.95. The vegetable lasagne, radicchio pear salad in addition to rocket explosion salad (pictured upward top) all hitting the spot.

We could, nay, should convey returned habitation without dessert, but I was great to compare the electrical flow version of the chocolate raspberry cake ($6.50) with the previous one. It features a crunchy night choc elevation in addition to unopen to calorie-free soft vegan cake. Though the texture's wonderful, I idea the cake was likewise calorie-free on the chocolate in addition to raspberry.

Once at the dessert counter, I was overwhelmed with the diversity of treats available in addition to recklessly bought a minute item, this choc hazelnut tiramisu ($6.50). Of all the things I've eaten out of disposable plastic inwards my life, this is the best. (And given that I ate it at vege2go, there's one-half a jeopardy that plastic's getting recycled!) Be warned, though - it's a generous serving in addition to you're best advised to part it with a trusted friend. Just live certain yous trust them, mind, otherwise you'll live fighting difficult for that final mouthful!

Vege2go notwithstanding produce a fine draw of piece of employment inwards convenience nutrient in addition to I admire their commitment to evolving in addition to improving. While they won't live winning haute cuisine awards whatsoever fourth dimension soon, I'd nominate them equally the most unceasingly cheerful, friendly in addition to helpful staff I've encountered inwards Melbourne. And that's something to come upward dorsum for!

November 11, 2008: Carrot & Peanut Muffins

been baking plenty lately, it's been a land since I prepared myself a mid-afternoon workday snack. (I've been subsisting on store-bought muesli bars, which are tasty plenty but far less nutritious than you lot powerfulness think.) I picked these carrot too peanut muffins from my to-cook listing mainly because we've had an unloved parcel of peanuts inwards the closet for some time. Once those peanuts are solid set down up, this recipe's a cinch - there's no ask for an electrical mixer, too I conveniently ignored the flake where Clotilde piped the batter into a mini-muffin tray. Instead I plonked hearty spoonfuls into a standard-sized muffin pan.

Let me enjoin you lot what's practiced nigh these muffins - they're moist too nutty, merely a lilliputian sweet, too they receive got lovely golden caramelised edges. The texture reminds me of cakes that receive got been made primarily amongst almond meal. Yet these muffins didn't conform me, somehow - I didn't pass the afternoon looking frontward to eating one. When some other last-minute invitee speaker presented themselves at operate afterward inwards the week, I shared the remaining nine muffins around too hoped that ane of my colleagues powerfulness appreciate these to a greater extent than than I did - they sure enough deserve to live loved.

Carrot & peanut muffins
(taken from Chocolate too Zucchini)

270g grated carrot (I used two-and-a-bit large carrots)
4 eggs
160g raw sugar
160g solid set down peanuts
60g evidently flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon warm spice mix (I used shakes of cinnamon, ginger, star anise too cloves)

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C too either grease or business a muffin tray amongst papers.

Put the grated carrot too eggs into a large bowl too trounce them amongst a fork until they froth upward a bit. Beat inwards the sugar, thus the peanuts. Sift inwards the flour, baking powder, common salt too spices too mix until merely combined.

Spoon the batter into the muffin tray too bake for 15-18 minutes (use the skewer exam to banking enterprise agree when they're ready).

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

November 12, 2008: Spiced Novel Potatoes, Curried Light-Green Beans & Xanthous Rice

the World inward Your Kitchen Calendar offered upward spiced novel potatoes from Sri Lanka Nov 12, 2008: Spiced novel potatoes, curried greenish beans & xanthous rice

Another month, some other recipe. For November, the World inward Your Kitchen Calendar offered upward spiced novel potatoes from Sri Lanka. This was clearly intended as a side dish, hence I did a fleck of poking to a greater extent than or less the spider web to endeavor to uncovering some Sri Lankan themed goodies that could accompany the spuds. Thankfully, this website: http://asiarecipe.com/sriveg.html came through alongside the goods - dozens of vegetarian Sri Lankan options. I decided to larn nuts as well as plough out 3 dishes: the spuds, some curried greenish beans as well as xanthous rice.

Everything involved was relatively uncomplicated - fifty-fifty alongside 3 burners on the larn this didn't accept me much to a greater extent than than one-half an hour, alongside most of the background jobs finished past times the fourth dimension the spuds had boiled. The potatoes were fantastic - tangy, spicy as well as tender. Cindy fifty-fifty suggested they could supplant her measure white patato accompaniment. The rice was every bit impressive, creamy as well as flavoursome, almost sweetness plenty for a dessert. It's in all probability non a salubrious take in to soak rice inward kokosnoot milk, but it certain is a gustatory modality sensation. The employment was the beans. I'd popped inward a pair of teaspoons of curry pulverization that we'd been given as purpose of a fancy Oxfam present, thinking it would locomote relatively mild. Turns out it was anything but - the beans packed a firey, firey, whallop. Too much for us to relish unfortunately, hence the beans got shunted to i side of our plates to locomote frozen as well as rejigged into something to a greater extent than manageable later on on.

So dinner ended upward beingness rice as well as potatoes - a fiddling colourless as well as dull, but rich, warm as well as flavourful nonetheless.

Spiced novel potatoes

500g minor potatoes
1 teaspoon dark mustard seeds
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
2 teaspoons dry soil coriander
1 teaspoon turmeric
1-2 tablespoons chopped coriander
juice of 1 lemon
oil
salt

Boil the potatoes for nearly fifteen minutes, until they're good cooked. Drain as well as peel.

Heat the crude oil inward a pan as well as add together the mustard seeds. Once they pop, throw inward the potatoes as well as create for 5 minutes.

Throw inward the remainder of the spices, tabular array salt as well as coriander as well as create for some other 10 minutes or so. Stir the lemon juice through simply earlier serving.

Curried greenish beans

500g greenish beans, trimmed
3 tablespoons oil
2-3 teaspoons of curry pulverization (make certain the curry pulverization is non ridiculously spicy)
1 tablespoon mustard
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
salt

Fry the beans inward the crude oil for nearly 5 minutes. Add all the other ingredients, stir everything together as well as create for some other 5 minutes or so. And you're done.

Yellow rice

3 cups rice
4 tablespoons butter
2 onions, sliced
10 cloves
20 dark peppercorns
12 bruised cardamom pods
1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric
3 teaspoons salt
5 cups kokosnoot milk

Heat the butter inward a saucepan, tiddler the onions until browned.

Add the cloves, peppercorns, cardamom pods, tabular array salt as well as turmeric.

Add the rice as well as fry, stirring constantly until it's good coated.

Add the coconut, convey to the boil as well as and then embrace as well as larn out on depression estrus cooking until the rice is done (maybe 25 minutes). The spices should come upward to the peak land the rice is cooking, pregnant yous tin scoop most (but non all) of the cloves as well as cardamom pods out earlier serving it all up.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

November 15, 2008: Shakahari V

here, here, here as well as here.

Monday, May 18, 2015

November 15, 2008: Salad Dressing Cupcakes

carrot in addition to peanut muffins, I consulted to my to-cook listing in ane trial again for inspiration. Though I'm non a regular reader of Smitten Kitchen, I'd wandered past times a twosome of days before in addition to bookmarked her lately posted olive crude muffins - non exclusively did they incorporate olive oil, but too balsamic vinegar! The materials of salad dressings, I couldn't quite imagine how this would taste, though I suspected I would similar it.

I did. These cupcakes (let's reclaim the give-and-take for the neglected un-iced ones out there!) are moist in addition to lively alongside citrus in addition to flaked almonds; yous in all probability wouldn't gauge the hush-hush ingredients, but they bring their roles to play. The ane that Michael in addition to I shared, notwithstanding warm from the oven, was blissful. Since hence I've noticed that they bring a whiff of egginess at room temperature in addition to I'd live on interested inwards reducing or replacing the eggs inwards a time to come incarnation. Deb reckons that, on their own, they're "nothing to compose sonnets over" but I regard they're genuinely pretty close! I enjoyed unopen to other ane afterward alongside a bowl sum of strawberries, lightly dressed inwards to a greater extent than balsamic vinegar.

Salad dressing cupcakes
(recipe from Smitten Kitchen)

1 3/4 cups plainly flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons grated orangish rind
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons milk
3/4 loving cup olive oil
2/3 loving cup flaked almonds, toasted

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Fill a muffin tray alongside newspaper liners.

Sift together the flour, baking pulverization in addition to tabular array salt inwards a medium bowl. In a form mixing bowl, vanquish together the sugar, eggs in addition to orangish in addition to lemon rind for a few minutes. Add the vinegar in addition to milk acre notwithstanding beating in addition to hence the oil, gradually. Stir inwards the flour mix until it's all only combined.

Spoon the batter into the muffin tray in addition to bake for 20-25 minutes, using a skewer to examination whether they're done.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

November 15, 2008: Warm Pasta & Sweetness Murphy Salad

After a somewhat decadent nighttime out on Fri too inward anticipation of to a greater extent than decadence on sun Nov 15, 2008: Warm pasta & sweetness spud salad

After a somewhat decadent nighttime out on Fri too inward anticipation of to a greater extent than decadence on Sunday, I was keen to gear upwards something comparitively low-cal too nourishing for dinner on Saturday. Unusually, I consulted our pocket-size cookbook collection rather than my online bookmarks too picked out this warm pasta salad from vegie food. It takes payoff of the season's asparagus, features sprinklings of feta too pino nuts, too amongst pasta too sweetness spud involved it's definitely a sum repast on its own.

Though it's colourful too contains only about lovely ingredients, this salad didn't quite move for us. The proportions seemed out of whack, amongst likewise much pasta too non nearly plenty spinach or pino nuts. The feta nosotros bought was tough too the flavours never actually mingled, fifty-fifty equally nosotros ate it gradually over a discover of days. I'm certain there's a swell salad waiting to flare-up out from this element list, but I intend it'll involve novel proportions too a dissimilar dressing to actually shine.

Warm pasta & sweetness spud salad

750g sweetness potato
2 tablespoons olive oil
500g pasta
325g marinated feta cheese inward oil
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 bunch asparagus, chopped into curt lengths
100g infant spinach leaves
2 tomatoes, chopped
40g pino nuts, toasted

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Peel the sweetness spud too chop it into large cubes; plonk it into a large baking dish, drizzle it amongst the olive oil, flavor it amongst common salt too pepper, too stir it all through. Bake the sweetness spud until tender, nigh xx minutes.

While the sweetness spud is baking, boil a large saucepan of H2O too produce the pasta, draining it when it's done.

Drain the fossil oil from the feta too whisk the fossil oil amongst the balsamic vinegar equally a dressing - nosotros added only about extra olive fossil oil hither to brand upwards for our lack of marinating oil.

Steam the asparagus until tender, but even then keeping its colour.

Stir all of the ingredients together inward a large bowl - the sweetness potato, pasta, asparagus, feta, spinach, tomatoes, pino nuts too lastly the dressing.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

November 16, 2008: A Vegan Tour Of Box Hill

The decadence I anticipated was a Box Hill yum cha meet-up amongst the vegan potluck crew. salad dressing cupcakes were a timely reminder to endeavour an egg alternative).

had intended that close of us wheel our agency at that topographic point from the inner northward Nov 16, 2008: H5N1 vegan tour of Box Hill

Laden downwards amongst frozen goods, nosotros all headed dwelling identify to our respective fridges. What a treat; to observe a novel suburb in addition to its nutrient amongst a crew of like-minded eaters!

Vegie Hut
Address: 984 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill
Ph: 9898 2287
Website: www.vegiehut.com.au

Vegie Bakery
Address: 566 Station Street, Box Hill
Ph: 9898 8666

Golden Age Health & Vegetarian Food Mart
Address: 18b Rutland Road, Box Hill
Ph: 9898 2048

November 19, 2008: Leftover Makeover - Edible Bean Laksa

Sri Lankan feast a calendar week earlier were ridiculously spiced - fifty-fifty past times my curry-enthused standards, these were a flake much. Luckily, Cindy had the fine sentiment of repackaging them equally a coconut-milk based soup - a variety of impromptu laksa. We figured the edible bean seasoning would render almost of the flavour, in addition to so I simply added a handful of kaffir lime leaves in addition to roughly onion, along amongst roughly sliced carrot, broccolini, cubed tofu in addition to a twain of tins of kokosnoot milk. To mass things upwardly nosotros threw inwards the residue of the pocket-size sum of xanthous rice nosotros even in addition to so had inwards the refrigerator in addition to voila, our leftovers are gone.

This worked out pretty good - the edible bean seasonings even in addition to so packed a flake of a punch, but the spice was nicely diluted past times the kokosnoot milk in addition to rice. The kaffir lime leaves added a prissy scent to the whole meal, in addition to nosotros happily chomped our agency through our big ricey mush for dinner in addition to a few lunches.

Friday, May 15, 2015

November 21, 2008: Soulfood Iii

02/01/2013: Recently Soulfood has changed hands. While the menu's all the same largely vegetarian, they convey introduced meat dishes. This postal service belike doesn't reverberate the electrical flow incarnation.

Before hitting a gig inward the neighbourhood on Fri night, Michael too I stopped inward at Soulfood Cafe for the showtime fourth dimension inward over a year.

Before hitting a gig inward the neighbourhood on Fri nighttime Nov 21, 2008: Soulfood III

Michael ordered these fajitas ($12.50) from the specials menu. They tasted nearly every bit practiced every bit they look, but no better.

tempeh burger, but it was a piffling bland. Turn the plate round, though, too you'll run across this:

Grill'd. If entirely they came amongst a large pot of aioli.

I similar Soulfood, but I wishing I could honey it. The staff are hip and friendly, the all-vegetarian bill of fare looks promising too the servings offering value for coin - entirely the meals seem a piffling striking too miss.

If yous intend you've sampled i of their greatest hits, state us nearly it! I could produce amongst approximately bill of fare guidance.

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You tin give the axe read nearly our previous visits to Soulfood Cafe here too here.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

November 22, 2008: Gingerlee Iii

27/04/2014: Gingerlee has simply had a makeover together with choke The Old Bike Shop Cafe. It seems that simply about of the same cardinal staff are involved.

Gingerlee has simply had a makeover together with choke Nov 22, 2008: Gingerlee III

Saturday morning time did non bring the best of beginnings. Michael together with I had a grouping coming together to larn to at 10am together with the greyness skys, whistling wind, together with the belatedly Fri black we'd simply had didn't brand getting upwardly whatsoever easier. The exclusively practical way of go was past times foot, through the rain. We arrived a few minutes early on but needn't bring bothered - at that topographic point was no-one around. Not at the front end door, nor at the back. We huddled inward the covered stairwell together with watched heavier rain, together with then hail, sweep through. By 10:20 we'd agreed that at that topographic point was no coming together together with Michael needed a 2nd breakfast.

Turns out Mike together with a dyad of his friends were making their way to Gingerlee, hence nosotros muscled inward on their table. Many of Brunwick's fine breakfast destinations family cabinets of muffins, slices, cookies together with other delicacies but when I see I'm unremarkably seeking something to a greater extent than substantial. Not this time! I was delighted to attempt a passionfruit curd cheesecake, served cupcake-style. It was a baked cheesecake without a biscuit base of operations - soft together with fluffy amongst a double-tang from the cream cheese together with the passionfruit. I'm non certain how much it cost, hence I actually don't know whether it's skillful value for money. Washed downward amongst a loving cup of tea afterward a morning time similar ours, I know it was worth every cent regardless!

Min Lokal's nevertheless reign supreme.

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You tin strength out read virtually our previous visits to Gingerlee here together with here.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

November 23, 2008: Cornmeal Crunch

re all it took to stimulate got me bookmarking Heidi Swanson Nov 23, 2008: Cornmeal Crunch

Though I revile them inward their raw state, I dear love love caramelised onions. They're all it took to stimulate got me bookmarking Heidi Swanson's cornmeal crunch recipe a yoke of weeks ago, in addition to to ready it for Dominicus lunch. Sweet melting onions aside, I'm unsure whether this turned out quite equally Heidi intended. The the United States of America seems to offering a broad multifariousness of cornmeal - fine or coarse, steel or rock ground, yellow, white or fifty-fifty blue! Here all I readily meet is polenta. Thankfully my polenta seemed to become through the textural changes that Heidi described inward her recipe, thus my rendition may live on a worthy imitation.

I was pessimistic almost this modest amount of parmesan translating whatever cheesy flavor to the concluding dish, but it did fine; genuinely it was the onions that tended to disappear into the mix. Nevertheless the consequence is real pleasing indeed, specially alongside or thus babe spinach leaves in addition to baked asparagus spears on the side. It's a piddling heavier than I expected, in addition to I'll conception to add together smaller chunks of it to a salad or soak upward a soup alongside it adjacent time. The solely argue that 'next time' isn't this evening is that this recipe takes patience - teach started good earlier your stomach's grumbling for service!

Cornmeal Crunch
(from 101 Cookbooks)

1 1/2 cups cornmeal/polenta
pinch of salt
3 medium onions, chopped
olive oil
1/2 loving cup parmesan cheese, grated
3 cups H2O or vege stock (I added a vegetable stock cube to my water)

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Grease a baking or pie dish.

In a medium bowl, stir together the cornmeal, tabular array salt in addition to 1 1/2 cups of H2O in addition to laid them aside.

Splash or thus olive crude oil into a frying pan on high heat, in addition to thus add together the onions. Stir occasionally to forestall the onions from sticking to the bottom - you'll take away to stir increasingly oftentimes equally they brown. Continue until they're collapsing into a sugariness mush, this took me at to the lowest degree 10 minutes, in addition to in all probability 20. Take them off the oestrus when they're done.

Pour 1 1/2 cups of H2O into a saucepan in addition to choose it to the boil (this is when I added my stock cube). Add the cornmeal mush, choose it dorsum upward to the boil, in addition to stir regularly for almost five minutes. Heidi says that y'all desire a texture 'thicker than a heavy frosting'. Take it off the oestrus when it's ready, in addition to stir inward the cheese in addition to ii thirds of the onions. Pour the cornmeal into your baking dish, smoothing over the top, a drizzle over a piddling to a greater extent than olive oil.

Bake the cornmeal until the edges are golden in addition to they describe away from the side of the dish a bit. It'll stimulate got almost 45 minutes. When it's done, spell it upward in addition to sprinkle it alongside the remaining onions.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

November 23-24, 2008: Grubs

Gorgeous Grubs. These curiously named sweets are a long fourth dimension favourite inwards Johanna's identify unit of measurement in addition to it wasn't the recipe that appealed to me in addition to then much equally the memories she recounted equally she rolled them. I didn't excogitation to brand them at all until I was faced alongside an imminent seminar from a invitee speaker at run in addition to a instance of baking fatigue. The elementary mix-roll-refrigerate procedure seemed achievable. It likewise seemed to invite mixing upward the ingredients to adjust one's ain needs in addition to pantry - I went for a gluten-free version, replacing the Marie biscuits alongside my remaining rice bubbles in addition to closed to solid soil almonds. I tin envisage mixing inwards dried fruit in addition to chopped nuts; straightaway that her recipe for sweetened condensed nothing, fifty-fifty a vegan rendition is inside reach!

These grubs struck me equally the ideal nutrient for a children's party. Not solely are they elementary to make, they don't require complicated ingredients in addition to their flavor is elementary in addition to sweet, non sophisticated. Regardless, they proved really pop alongside my adult audience! And where exercise they larn their refer from? I'm non sure, but I tin guess:

These curiously named sweets are a long fourth dimension favourite inwards Johanna Nov 23-24, 2008: Grubs

Grubs

1 1/3 cups rice bubbles
2/3 loving cup solid soil almonds
three tablespoons cocoa
1/2 loving cup dessicated coconut
400g tin sweetened condensed milk
2/3 extra dessicated kokosnoot for rolling

In a medium-sized bowl, stir together the dry out ingredients (rice bubbles, solid soil almonds, cocoa, dessicated kokosnoot or whatsoever substitute you lot desire to make). Pour over the condensed milk in addition to stir it all together until good combined. Roll generous teaspoons of the mixture into balls in addition to toss them through the extra coconut.

Johanna likes these best gooey in addition to at room temperature, but they should otherwise in all likelihood endure stored inwards the fridge.

Monday, May 11, 2015

Tokyo Treats - Mystery Orbs

This Tokyo process didn't come upwardly straight from Michael's blood brother Matt. He genuinely gave it to their mum but, fearing it contained something spicy in addition to wasabi-flavoured, she passed it on to Michael in addition to I. Actually, these are only sugared peanuts! Tasty, in addition to non gritty from the sugar, they're best shared or in addition to then lest you lot brand yourself sick. Just sayin'.

November 26, 2008: Queen Victoria Nighttime Markets Iii

Yep, the nighttime marketplace rank is back! The stalls don't appear to alter much from yr to yr (though there's been a slight expansion) as well as you lot should live on able to honor every dish we've previously eaten there.

a tip from here as well as here.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

November 27, 2008: Houndstooth Iii

We had visitors inwards town for the weekend in addition to wanted to initiatory off things off alongside a low-key Melbourne dining experience. I pushed for roughly other trip to Shakahari, but nosotros decided to become for a slightly hipper vibe - Houndstooth on Johnston Street.

They stimulate got a fine choice of local - nosotros enjoyed Mountain Goat in addition to Grand Ridge brews - in addition to international (although it turns out Japan's finest beer, Sapporo, is brewed inwards Canada!) beers, in addition to a modest but ever-changing menu.

There's normally simply 1 vego choice for each shape (out of 2 or 3 inwards total), then Cindy in addition to I exclusively stimulate got to select which courses to partake inwards - it's $20 for 3 or $15 for 2. We were both bold plenty to opt for 3 courses: an entree, a primary in addition to a dessert.

The entree of the solar daytime was a gorgonzola, caramelised onion in addition to thyme tart - it was a dainty combination of flaky, soft pastry, sweetness onions in addition to creamy gorgonzola cheese. Cindy raved most it - it was clearly the highlight of the meal. Something to crusade at abode perhaps.

here in addition to here.

Saturday, May 9, 2015

November 29, 2008: Chunky Monkey Cookies

salad dressing cupcake as well as a lonely Sabbatum stretched out inwards front end of me - fourth dimension for approximately baking! I believe this recipe was created yesteryear Vanessa of vanesscipes, a Brooklyn-based vegetarian weblog that's sadly at i time defunct. I bookmarked these cookies over a yr agone as well as was disappointed to respect a dead link. It took me a twain of days to intend of googling the recipe mention as well as cheque if anyone else had made these. Of sort out they had - "they" existence Valerie of in such a world.

The master copy mention for them is Vegan Banana Peanut Butter Cocoa Cookies - it gives y'all a pretty skillful sentiment of what goes into them, though y'all mightiness also last interested inwards the inclusion of kokosnoot crude oil (I but used Copha). The ingredients listing struck me equally sort of tropical, as well as something a monkey would sure love! Combined alongside their squat, nubbly shape, I experience compelled to rechristen them chunky monkey cookies.

as well as a lonely Sabbatum stretched out inwards front end of me Nov 29, 2008: Chunky monkey cookies

As good equally relying on Copha for the kokosnoot fat, I made a twain of other alterations - replacing one-half of the manifestly flour alongside wholemeal, as well as using raw saccharide instead of brownish (I was all out). The Copha didn't actually contribute anything as well as I wouldn't bother alongside it i time again - Nuttelex should create but fine. The wholemeal flour worked out great, then much then that I'll campaign a sum 2 cups of it side yesteryear side time. My mashing bananas weren't equally ripe equally they should induce got been, then I popped them inwards the oven for 10-15 minutes piece it was preheating.

These cookies walk a really agreeable delineate betwixt sugariness indulgence as well as wholesome snack. They're sturdy alongside banana as well as wholemeal flour, but the cocoa as well as sweetness ensures that they gustation similar a genuine treat. The cookie dough is quite thick as well as dry out as well as it made reasonably shine balls, yet it seems inevitable that the baked cookies volition last homely as well as misshapen. I was unsure close when they were 'done' but somehow got it correct - there's crisp resistance on the surface as well as depths of dense softness within.

Chunky monkey cookies
(based on a recipe from vanesscipes via in such a world)

1 loving cup wholemeal flour
1 loving cup manifestly flour (consider subbing alongside to a greater extent than wholemeal flour)
1/3 loving cup cocoa
1 teaspoon bicarb soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 really ripe bananas (or firm-ripe bananas, baked for 10-15 minutes until the peel begins to brown)
1 1/4 cups crunchy peanut butter
1/4 loving cup copha (or purpose Nuttelex)
1 loving cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 firm-ripe banana, finely diced

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Lightly bake the get-go 2 bananas if they're also employment solid to mash easily.

In a smallish bowl, sift together the flours, cocoa, bicarb soda as well as salt. Mash those get-go 2 bananas inwards a split dish.

In a larger bowl, compaction together the bananas, peanut butter, copha, saccharide as well as vanilla until really good combined. Gradually spoon inwards the cocoa/flour mixture piece yet beating - it'll last really thick as well as could induce got a piece to mix properly.

Fold through the diced banana. I institute this hard since the banana is then much to a greater extent than fragile than the dough. I tended to chop the dough upward into bits as well as scatter the banana pieces through it, then that i or 2 would teach picked upward equally I rolled the dough into balls.

Roll generous teaspoons of the mixture into balls close an inch inwards diameter, as well as identify them on a paper-lined baking tray (grease-free!). I institute that mine didn't flatten inwards the oven, then I gave 'em a picayune squash.

Bake the cookies until the the exterior lightens inwards coloring as well as they prepare cracks - mine took 10-15 minutes, I think.

Friday, May 8, 2015

November 29, 2008: Savoury Quinoa Cake

baking biscuits wasn't enough. Even though I knew I'd in all probability last eating dinner solitary I was compelled to gear upwards a sum meal, telling myself that the leftovers would serve me good for workday lunches. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to a greater extent than accurate explanation is that I was at a unloose terminate without an network connection. Without the might to write or read nutrient blogs I resorted to creating to a greater extent than nutrient blogging provender for later! Of course of education I couldn't cite to my enormous to-cook listing of online recipes; actually, it was a practiced chance to attempt something from my smaller to-cook collection stored elsewhere.

With soy bacon inwards the refrigerator together with a sum package of organic quinoa inwards the closet I chop-chop settled on Clotilde Dusoulier's recipe for mushroom, bacon together with quinoa cake, taken from her showtime majority Daily Adventures inwards a Parisian Kitchen. Like the cornmeal crunch I prepared a weekend earlier, this recipe isn't hard but it takes a quite some fourth dimension to convey together - the quinoa must last cooked together with other bits chopped together with sauteed before yous fifty-fifty bother amongst preheating the oven for the 40-minute bake.

It all yields a hefty feed - Clotilde suggests that these 10-12 serves create good on a buffet tabular array together with I'm certain she's right. If exclusively mine looked to a greater extent than appetising! Sadly the sauteed mushrooms tinged the entire cake a sickly grey. It tasted fine, though I would cause got enjoyed to a greater extent than of the crispy crust together with less of the moist pump - if I made it again, I'd attempt spreading it into a larger rectangular baking dish to increase its surface expanse together with crust. The cake's mild flavor is easily perked upwards amongst a side salad of rocket together with capers.

Savoury quinoa cake
(based on Gâteau de quinoa, champignons & bacon/quinoa, bacon, together with mushroom cake from Daily Adventures inwards a Parisian Kitchen yesteryear Clotilde Dusoulier)

2 cups quinoa, uncooked but rinsed
2 cups water
1 mushroom stock cube
145g soy bacon, sliced
1 onion, chopped
600g mushrooms, sliced
1 teaspoon oil
3 large eggs
1/4 loving cup heavy cream
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 loving cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped

Put the quinoa, H2O together with stock cube inwards a medium saucepan together with convey them to the boil. Reduce the oestrus to simmer them, covered, until the quinoa absorbs all the liquid - this volition accept virtually xv minutes.

While the quinoa's cooking, oestrus upwards a large frypan or saucepan together with add together the oil. Cook the onion over medium oestrus until softened (about 8 minutes), stirring it often. Next add together the mushrooms together with gear upwards for some other 5-10 minutes, until most of their liquid has evaporated. Set aside the onion together with mushrooms, together with purpose the same pan to gear upwards the soy bacon for a few minutes.

Allow all the inwards a higher house ingredients to cool a bit, thus preheat the oven to 200 degrees C together with grease a baking dish or springform cake pan.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, cream, common salt together with pepper. Stir through the quinoa together with mushroom mixtures, thus the soy bacon together with the parsley. Pour the batter into the baking dish together with smoothen over the surface a little. Bake it for 30-40 minutes, until the edges are golden (or grey-golden!) together with crusty, together with a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Allow five minutes or thus for it to cool, thus repose the cake edges away from the dish amongst a knife. Slice together with serve warm or at room temperature.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

November 30, 2008: Brunetti Xiii

Update 27/1/2019: Brunetti is however trading, but has moved from Faraday Street into a huge custom-built infinite within Lygon Court.

Michael mentioned, nosotros had Damian in addition to Annette every bit houseguests for the weekend. They were hitting alongside sizable hangovers on Sunday, their final twenty-four hours alongside us, in addition to hence nosotros laid about guided them to Filter for a cooked breakfast. Somewhat refreshed, they were inwards a sufficient solid pose down for a gentle stroll along Brunswick St in addition to through Carlton Gardens (Damian's a fan of the Royal Exhibition Building) earlier it was fourth dimension for 1 final Melbourne coffee. Surprisingly it was Michael who idea to Pb them to Brunetti, where nosotros tend to get got all our guests.

but has moved from Faraday Street into a huge custom Nov 30, 2008: Brunetti XIII

Though virtually of Brunetti's desserts are available year-round, I noticed a few novel items entering the sugariness rotation - virtually of them creamy creations served inwards cups. The larger ones become for $5 or $6, but at that spot are also shot-glass-sized tasters such every bit the Bicchierini that I chose ($3). Indeed, I intend bicchierini is Italian for 'small glasses', in addition to hence you're in all probability only looking at a unmarried bicchierino. It contains micro-layers of vanilla mousse in addition to raspberry coulis, a cute concoction alongside a jam-and-cream flavour. It's a piddling over-priced but it's the form of cheery mouthful that could only brand your morning.

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With a Brunetti trip for every houseguest (and mayhap a twain extra besides), this cafe has earned its ain category. You tin read every draw of piece of employment organization human relationship here.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

December 1, 2008: The E Brunswick Guild Iii

Edit 22/05/2012: The EBC has similar a shot closed, but most of the bill of fare has migrated to The Cornish Arms.

all veganisable amongst the help of cheezly together with soy products Dec 1, 2008: The East Brunswick Club III

The $10 Mondays at the EBC are a sure-fire vegan winner - a board total of inexpensive pub nutrient options, all veganisable amongst the help of cheezly together with soy products. So amongst our refrigerator total of luncheon leftovers, Cindy together with I decided that a lazy pub repast was the gild of the day. We'd envisaged parking ourselves inward a corner, filling upwardly on beer together with nutrient together with riding dorsum on domicile inward fourth dimension to teach angry at the tertiary episode of The Howard Years (aside: is at that spot anything to a greater extent than infuriating than Peter Reith's idiotic face? Answer: yes, Alexander Downer's miserable simpering. Oh God, I've only got to motion on).

Instead, nosotros ran into an impromptu vegan meetup, starring Kristy together with Toby, Rachel, Buttons, Caroline together with T and, the invitee of honour, Theresa from Tropical Vegan (visiting from Townsville). They kindly invited us to bring together them, together with nosotros settled inward to the foreign petty dining room only off the master copy department of the pub. Cindy decided to branch out from the touchstone pub fare, opting for an Asian smoked duck together with crispy wonton salad.

The duck was tender together with duckish together with the salad was fresh together with plentiful, but the whole dish was smothered inward some split of sugariness chilli-based sauce that was a flake also sugariness together with overpowered the whole dish. Still, where else tin can you lot teach a vegan duck salad for $10?

I couldn't become past times the pub-food options - this fourth dimension I went for the cheese together with bacon burger, amongst a big side of chips. The chips were much ameliorate than concluding fourth dimension - sure enough a cardinal constituent inward a skilful pub repast - together with the burger was gigantic together with delicious. Fake bacon volition never quite pick out the same flavours to the political party equally the existent stuff, but the 'meat' patty was outstanding - perchance non quite upwardly to some of our homemade efforts, but pretty close. The whole affair only filled the inexpensive pub repast niche brilliantly.

I was happily total afterward putting away my massive meal, but Cindy had been eyeing off everyone else's dessert together with allow me know that I should duck unopen to together with gild her something. It's difficult to ignore a choc-cherry cheesecake at the best of times, but I was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than intrigued to examine a vegan version. I snuck a few mouthfuls away from Cindy together with tin can confirm that it was outstanding. Lots of cherry mush smothering a delicious together with slightly cheesy cake betwixt 2 layers of chocolateness. Not also shabby.

The service isn't actually the pub's potent indicate - at that spot were some foreign delays betwixt dishes arriving at our table, but it's worth noting that the EBC was packed out ane time again - they've actually institute a agency to cause total the pub on Mondays.

So what began equally a inexpensive together with speedy repast turned into a inexpensive together with chatty repast - it was swell to run into Theresa, Caroline together with T together with to pick out handgrip of upwardly amongst most of the Melbourne vegan blogging gang. Undoubtedly we'll provide to the East on a hereafter Monday, together with we're almost sure to bump into some familiar faces when nosotros do.

Read nigh our previous visits to the East Brunswick Club here together with here.