April 1, 2008: Spicy Cauliflower Soup In Addition To Braised Mushrooms

spicy cauliflower soup too braised lobster mushrooms, provided past times the here.

April 7, 2008: Tofu Inwards Lemongrass Broth

Pad Thai coming out of our kitchen. Luckily, every minute presently every minute I mentioned this to Cindy, she pointed me inwards the administration this recipe from Nourish Me.

April 7, 2008: Figs

A dessert of figs, a few drops of agave syrup, in addition to a generous spoonful of strangely granular mascarpone.

April 9, 2008: Creamy Cerise Lentil Chowder

I'm actually pushing the soup agenda lately - I guess I've missed it during the warmer months. This lentil chowder was a rich too filling mush, alongside actually potent flavours - a picayune spiciness, approximately tangy vinegar too the earthy lentils. I loved it on the black nosotros made it, but past times the fourth dimension we'd gotten through the leftovers the vinegary-lemon flavours had larn a fighting tiresome. I'm certain the whole parcel would lead maintain been improved if we'd used a delicious homemade stock every bit the recipe recommended, instead of store-bought salty stock. In futurity it mightiness hold out best to snuff it far inwards smaller batches (or for larger crowds).

Creamy blood-red lentil chowder

1 tblsp olive oil
1 pocket-size onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
1 celery rib, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 bay leaf
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp dried basil
1 cinnamon stalk
1 large tomato, diced
1.5 cups blood-red lentils
5 cups of vegetable stock
1 loving cup dry out white wine
170g silken tofu
1 tblsp miso
2 tblsp lemon juice
1 tblsp cider vinegar
Splash of hot sauce
Salt too pepper to taste

In a large pot, rut the stone oil too hence throw inwards the onion, cooking for iii or iv minutes. Add inwards the carrot too celery too laid upward for approximately other few minutes. Once the vegies lead maintain softened, add together the bay leaf, garlic, basil, oregano too cinnamon stick. Saute for approximately other pair of minutes.

Add the tomato plant too laid upward for approximately other infinitesimal or so, stir inwards the lentils, stock too wine. Cover too convey to the boil, hence simmer for xx minutes or so, until the lentils are soft. If you lot tin notice them, lead maintain out the cinnamon stick too the bay leaf.

Put the tofu, miso too two cups of the soup mix inwards a nutrient processor too whiz until good blended. Pour the mush dorsum into the soup pot too stir it all through. Add the lemon juice, vinegar too hot sauce. Season alongside tabular array salt too pepper.

May 3, 2008: Quinoa Alongside Dark Beans In Addition To Sweetness Potato

Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit. There it's credited to the Post Punk Kitchen forum, in addition to from PPK dorsum to Women's Health Magazine. It seems that everyone's been charmed past times it but me, in addition to thus don't permit my indifference deter you lot from making it. It's the Beirut of quinoa salads.

May 11, 2008: Leftover Makeover - Colcannon

knishes too bangers too crush yielded extra shredded cabbage too mashed potato. I figured that they could easily travel transformed into some variety of patty, too a wander some the network produced mushroom paprikash, it was a fine, warming wintertime meal.

May 20, 2008: Broccoli In Addition To Bluish Vein Soup

effort, where the cheese flavour was a fleck also subtle). The downside of the cheesy flavour was the removal of whatever pretence that this is a especially salubrious soup, inwards fact it sat a piffling heavily inwards my tummy past times the halt of the meal, as well as mightiness function meliorate inwards smaller bowls to outset a multi-course repast off.

Broccoli as well as Blue Vein Soup

Oil
1 Onion
2 large potatoes, chopped
1.1 litres vegetable stock
350g broccoli, chopped roughly
80g blueish cheese, crumbled
150mL milk
Salt, pepper as well as juice of one-half a lemon (opt.)
90mL (6 tablespoons) cream, to serve

1. Soften the onion inwards a saucepan. Add potatoes as well as stock as well as convey to the boil. Simmer 10 minutes.

2. Add broccoli as well as produce for 10min. Puree or crush the soup.

3. Add the cheese as well as milk as well as flavor to sense of savor alongside salt, pepper, as well as lemon juice. Heat through without boiling.

4. Serve alongside swirl of cream inwards each bowl.

May 22, 2008: Baked Tomatillo Salsa

our recent catch to Casa Iberica I picked upward a large tin of tomatillos. My i previous brush amongst tomatillos, where they constituted a broth, didn't break much close the fruit's flavour. black edible bean tofu tacos, spell I decided to accommodate Kurma's easy-bake salsa recipe to my dark-green alternative. Mashing the tomatillos roughly; combining them amongst a chopped dark-green chilli, a glug of olive crude too a few spoonfuls of chocolate-brown sugar; baking the lot inwards a hot oven for one-half an hour; this was all it took to make the sweetness too sour condiment you lot run into above.

June 17, 2008: Mushroom Too Eggplant Stew

Our Oxfam 'World inward Your Kitchen' calendar has been relatively successful hence far. The focus is actually on uncomplicated recipes, alongside relatively few ingredients that accept less than one-half an hr to throw together, which is ideal for a lazy workday dinner. June's process was from Ghana: mushroom in addition to eggplant stew. I was a chip skeptical of this recipe - it seemed to survive relying solely on onion in addition to a pinch of chili to flavor upwards the vegies. I ended upwards adding inward a few teaspoons of garam masala towards the terminate of the cooking to boost the gustatory modality a bit.

It turned out to survive a hearty, warming mush for a winter's evening. The extra spices were likely necessary - I recollect it would stimulate got been also bland for me otherwise. I'm non certain I'll rush dorsum to larn inward again, but it was uncomplicated in addition to reasonably tasty - total of chunky mushroom bits swimming inward a mashed upwards eggplant sauce, alongside crispy onion bits providing the only textural interest. We opted to serve it on meridian of to a greater extent than or less quinoa, which worked pretty good - yous actually necessitate something to soak upwards the liquid.

Mushroom in addition to Eggplant Stew

1 eggplant, diced
225g mushrooms, sliced
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 onion, sliced
1/2 teaspoon chili flakes
150ml vegie stock (you tin purpose the liquid yous boil the eggplant inward if yous desire to)
oil
salt
2 teaspoons garam masala

Boil the eggplant pieces for 10 minutes or hence until they soften upwards in addition to and hence drain them (keeping the boiling H2O if you're using it for stock). Mash it upwards into a coarse mush.

In the meantime, saute the onion inward stone oil for 5 minutes in addition to and hence add together the mushrooms, tomatoes, chili in addition to salt. Fry the mix for 10 minutes or hence until the mushrooms in addition to tomato plant stimulate got softened.

Now stir inward the mashed eggplant in addition to stock in addition to simmer for at to the lowest degree 10 minutes patch your quinoa/rice is cooking. Stir inward the garam masala nearly a infinitesimal earlier yous desire to serve it all up.

July 20, 2008: Quick Light-Green Soup

Chattanooga, in addition to then I planned to furnish her alongside something good for you lot to crusade to redress the balance. She likewise had to adapt to the conditions - I'd come upward dorsum to a flare-up of unseasonable warmth, but Cindy got off the airplane into a to a greater extent than typical wintertime day: wet, windy in addition to cold. Luckily, The Age had caught my oculus alongside this recipe (I won't reproduce it hither - I followed their directions to the letter). It looked warming, good for you lot in addition to hearty - the perfect welcome abode meal. Especially alongside a delicious Indian breadstuff to accompany it.

With all the spices included inwards the ingredients, I expected something alongside a rich in addition to complex flavour - it didn't quite mensurate upward to what I'd imagined, but it was notwithstanding a pretty satisfying dinner. I'd upward the chilli to a few pinches, in addition to likely amp upward the ginger every bit well. For around argue it performed much improve every bit a reheated luncheon afterwards inwards the calendar week - peradventure the spices needed a few days to actually infuse.

July 24, 2008: Kokosnoot Rice Pudding

these two harira soup recipes for example).

This was no exception - it was tasty, alongside the cinnamon too lemon adding a picayune spark to the sugary base. Still, it was a fleck lacking inward textural diverseness (some nuts or dried fruit mightiness stimulate got kept things a fleck to a greater extent than interesting), too brutal good brusk of the rice pudding heights that Cindy has previously taken things to.

Coconut rice pudding

225g rice
1/2 loving cup dessicated coconut
1 loving cup milk
1/2 loving cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
grated rind of 1/2 lemon

Put the rice into a saucepan too encompass alongside boiling water. Cook for ten-fifteen minutes, until the rice is almost cooked. Drain the rice (careful non to give the axe yourself!)

Return the rice to the pan, add together the coconut, milk, one-half the cinnamon too the carbohydrate too mix it all together.

Cook over depression oestrus for most 10 minutes, stirring frequently, until the rice is cooked properly.

Plate it upward too and then sprinkle alongside the lemon rind too remaining cinnamon.

July 26, 2008: Celeriac Salad

soy bombs are on regular rotation inwards this kitchen, but nosotros endeavour to mix 'em upward a bit. This fourth dimension I pulled a seasonal accompanying side out of my bookmarked recipes: celeriac salad from stonesoup. It's a quaternary generation descendant of the French celeriac remoulade, using creme fraiche or sour cream instead of mayonnaise together with a diversity of acidic substances (two mustards, ii vinegars together with lemon juice) to maintain that fast-browning celeriac fresh. Though it gradually loses a flake of crunch, nosotros happily continued to munch the leftovers for several days. Even better, this tart together with abundant dressing meant that the soy bombs didn't remove whatever extra condiments.

August 1, 2008: Brussels Sprouts

former children seem close to rejoice inwards their hate of it. I suspect that my mum was ane of their pose out together with hence never cooked them for me - I in all probability reached adulthood without fifty-fifty knowing exactly what a Brussels sprout looked like.

I suppose their greenish leafy layers together with relation to the cabbage are non nifty selling points to the corn-and-carrots crowd, but I intend these compact niggling bundles are genuinely quite cute. I count myself lucky that I'm exclusively simply getting to know them now, afterward a corporation decade of developing a existent appreciation for vegetables. This agency I tin say easily together with without prejudice that I similar Brussels sprouts simply fine!

I'm non on whatsoever one-person induce to heighten awareness of the Brussels sprout. Plenty of other keen cooks bring been enjoying it for years. It was genuinely a collaborator at operate who kickoff extolled to me the virtues of lightly steamed sprouts, fried inwards butter. Others swallow them alongside Great Big Vegetable Challenge (even making the listing of vegetables Freddie unequivocally likes!). In many recipes, caramelisation seems to hold upwards the key. So I started yesteryear frying them alongside saccharide - fifty-fifty Attica.

Is the Brussels sprout my novel French fry? Not yesteryear a long shot, but there's enough of room for the sprout to create its ain unique affair inwards my kitchen.

June 10, 2009: Broccoli Soup Amongst Lemon-Chive Cream

this, from Orangette. It's all relatively uncomplicated - a chip of chopping, a chip of frying, a chip of simmering too an awesome few moments of devastation amongst the stick blender. Good times. Luckily, it's likewise damn tasty. Between the stalks of the broccoli too the faux-chicken stock, it had a variety of meatiness to it, commencement past times the delicious herbed sour-cream too the parmesan hints left past times the rind. H5N1 few pieces of breadstuff on the side too we'd establish the antidote to Melbourne's flare-up of winter.

Broccoli soup amongst lemon-chive cream

The soup
1 tbsp butter
2 leeks, washed too sliced (just the white parts)
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1kg broccoli, chopped (include everything - stems too all)
1l faux-chicken of vegetable stock
1 parmesan rind
salt

The cream
1 loving cup sour cream
2 shallots (the long, light-green kind), sliced thinly
1/4 loving cup finely chopped chives
1 tsp lemon zest
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 loving cup grated Parmesan
salt
1/2 tsp powdered garlic

In a saucepan, melt the butter too and then add together the leeks too onion, cooking over medium rut for most 10 minutes. Everything should instruct overnice too transparent.

Add the garlic too stir through, cooking briefly, earlier throwing inward the stock, broccoli, parmesan rind too salt. Stir everything together, convey to the boil too and then simmer.

While things are simmering, brand the cream. Basically merely stir all the ingredients together too modification the amounts of salt/garlic/lemon juice to your tastes.

Once the soup has simmered for most 20 minutes, take the parmesan rind too assail the soup amongst your powerful stick blender (or instruct through the whole rigmarole of batches inward the nutrient processor).

Add most one-half of your sour-cream mix to the soup too stir it through, using the residuum of it equally a garnish to dollop on top.

June 16, 2009: Sauerkraut Chowder

a previous calendar recipe). It's definitely a filling in addition to rich brew. It'll endure a acre earlier I'm brave plenty to plonk an entire block of cream cheese into soup again, but I'd similar to transfer the evaporated milk sentiment to other recipes.

Sauerkraut chowder

3-4 large potatoes
water
1 medium onion
400g tin forcefulness out or jounce of sauerkraut
300mL evaporated milk
250g cream cheese
2 teaspoons horseradish cream, or to taste
salt in addition to pepper

Chop the potatoes into bite-size pieces, leaving the peel on. Place the potatoes inward a large saucepan in addition to comprehend them amongst water. Chop the onion in addition to add together it to the pot. Bring the soup to the boil in addition to develop the vegetables until the potatoes are tender.

Stir inward the sauerkraut, evaporated milk in addition to cream cheese, continuing to stir until the cream cheese has melted in addition to blended in. Season amongst horseradish, tabular array salt in addition to pepper to taste.

Cover the soup in addition to simmer it on depression oestrus for thirty minutes earlier serving.

July 1, 2009: Pumpkin, Carrot Together With Cumin Soup

Mapo Tofu earlier the contest fifty-fifty closed, Cindy insisted nosotros start doing things properly - outset alongside our contest winner, Jo, too her roasted cumin pumpkin soup. I expected every entry of our contest to last soup of some form, too I was especially looking frontwards to soups that would deal me principal my developing stick-blender technique. Aside from the stick-blending, this was all pretty elementary - some roasting, a chip of simmering too you're done. The halt production was pretty impressive - rich too warming, alongside the cumin giving the soup a chip of an border beyond merely the sugariness pumpkin too carrot.

We fiddled roughly alongside the recipe a tiny bit, every bit Jo suggested, adding carrot to the base of operations of pumpkin but otherwise leaving things every bit she suggested.


Roasted cumin too pumpkin soup

1.5kg pumpkin, peeled too sliced
3 carrots, sliced longways
2 small-scale onions, diced
A dyad of tablespoons of terra firma cumin
2-3 cups of vegie stock
2-3 tablespoons olive oil

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Lay the pumpkin too carrot out on a tray, drizzle alongside the one-half of the olive fossil oil too sprinkle alongside the cumin.

Roast the pumpkin too carrot for nigh 20 minutes, plow everything too hand it some other 20 minutes.

When the pumpkin has nigh 10 minutes left, estrus the remainder of the fossil oil inward a big pot too saute the onion until it's fourth dimension to stimulate got the vegies out - they should last overnice too soft.

Add the vegie stock too thence smush inward the roast vegies too their pan juices. Simmer for nigh fifteen minutes, stirring regularly too thence blend everything together alongside your stick blender into a shine paste.

Simmer for some other few minutes, adding H2O if you lot take away to modify your soup's consistency. Serve alongside some delicious breadstuff too relish the wintertime warmth.

April 1, 2009: Caramelised Onion Dip

I've had this recipe poised for usage for a few weeks. I originally intended to larn inwards for a beach political party but drizzle kept us away from the coast together with I repurposed it for a seminar afternoon at work. It's onion dip, but non equally I'd seen it earlier - without the crunchy onion chunks together with weird additives of the supermarket stuff, but neither relying on the powdered soup mix of other dwelling recipes. Instead it uses onion pulverization together with features glistening caramelised onions! It does accept to a greater extent than or less patience to dull laid those onions downward to sweetness golden perfection, but it's a doddle from there.

Heidi (of 101 Cookbooks) has got my snacking predilections downward perfectly alongside this one. The yoghurt-sour cream base of operations is creamy alongside a niggling tang land the onions are sweetness and savoury. It's truly hard for me to hold whatsoever feel of decorum when a bowl of this dip together with a few crackers are inside reach.

Caramelised onion dip
(originally posted yesteryear Heidi Swanson at 101 Cookbooks)

2 tablespoons olive oil
2 large onions, finely chopped
3/4 loving cup sour cream
3/4 loving cup Greek yoghurt
3 teaspoons onion powder, or to taste
1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste

In a large frypan, gently rut the stone oil together with laid the onions over depression rut alongside a pinch of salt. Stir them occasionally, cooking until the onions are a deep golden chocolate-brown - this volition accept at least forty minutes. Stir them to a greater extent than oft equally they darken to preclude burning. Take the onions off the rut together with permit them to cool (I refrigerated them until the adjacent morning.)

Whisk together the sour cream together with yoghurt. Add the onion pulverization together with common salt gradually, to taste. Stir through 2 thirds of the caramelised onions, together with thence sprinkle the remainder over the overstep to serve. Serve the dip at room temperature.

July 5, 2009: Baked Artichoke Dip

creamy spinach-artichoke dip from Green Line box. I was inordinately excited yesteryear the visit of a serving a baked dip inwards winter, in addition to this i was just the comforting appetiser that I was hoping for. It'd brand a bully lunch, simply scooped onto crusty bread.

Lindy Loo's version, which itself was inspired yesteryear the Don't Eat Off the Sidewalk! zine)

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pocket-sized onion, chopped finely
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups rainbow chard, chopped
2 cups babe spinach leaves, roughly shredded
400g tin terminate cannelini beans, drained in addition to rinsed
250g vegan cream cheese
400g tin terminate artichoke hearts, drained in addition to roughly chopped
1/4 loving cup rice crumbs
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
extra rice crumbs in addition to yeast to sprinkle over the summit (optional)
black pepper

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Heat the crude inwards a frypan, drib the onion inwards in addition to educate it until the onion is nearly translucent. Add the garlic in addition to educate it all for a farther minute. Add the chard, cooking until the leaves simply commencement to wilt, in addition to and thus the babe spinach leaves. Cook until the spinach is likewise simply wilting, in addition to thus scope got the pan off the estrus in addition to laid it aside.

Plonk the cannelini beans into a nutrient processor in addition to blend them until smooth. Transfer them to a casserole dish in addition to stir inwards the vegan cream cheese. Add the pan-fried greens, artichoke hearts, rice crumbs in addition to yeast flakes in addition to stir everything until it's roughly combined. Spread the dip out evenly across the dish, in addition to thus sprinkle over to a greater extent than crumbs in addition to nooch if you lot want. Grind unopen to dark pepper over the top.

Cover the dish in addition to bake the dip for virtually twenty minutes. Remove the lid in addition to bake for a farther 10-15 minutes, until the summit begins to chocolate-brown simply a little.

April 4, 2009: Greenish Pumpkin-Seed Mole

been well this post, together with I added something new: light-green pumpkin-seed mole.

This is about other Veganomicon recipe, together with is every bit uncomplicated every bit the ii linked to higher upwardly - the entirely cooking required is a fighting of pepitas toasting together with hence it's everything inward a nutrient processor. It did demand a brief jaunt to Casa Iberica for canned tomatillos, but everything else was pretty straightforward. And it turned out a care for - entirely a footling fighting spicy, amongst the flavours coming to a greater extent than from the fresh herbs together with onions, it was a overnice cooling sauce to become amongst the to a greater extent than firey chipotle-based option.

Green pumpkin-seed mole

1 loving cup pepitas
4 dark peppercorns
1 loving cup fresh coriander
1 loving cup fresh parsley
1 x 250ml tin can tomatillos
1 chilli, seeded together with chopped
2 shallots, chopped coarsely
2 lettuce leaves, torn into pieces (although it's worth noting that I didn't uncovering the influence of the lettuce leaves, together with you're likely amend off but skipping this gene if you lot don't convey whatsoever greens inward the fridge)
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 loving cup olive oil

Heat a frying pan over medium rut together with toast the pumpkin seeds, turning regularly. It took me virtually 10 minutes, but it tin can likely live on done inward less if you lot crank the rut upwardly a bit.

Put the toasted pepitas together with the peppercorns inward a nutrient processor together with blend into a coarse powder.

Add everything else except the fossil oil together with blend it all together. Throw inward the fossil oil together with laissez passer on it a terminal whizz together with voila, you're done.

April 16, 2009: Kaju Katli

spiced novel potatoes (actually Sri Lankan) too spiced chickpeas, piece I fussed over the crockery too mixed upwards a jug of Indian-style lemonade.

These potlucks ordinarily Pb to every bit much sugariness gluttony every bit savoury but this subject had its limitations - many Indian desserts are milk-based (such every bit my dear kulfi too rice pudding, too the super-sugary Steph & Pip select too recounted the even out on their blogs.)

Kaju Katli
(based on a recipe at Saffron Hut)

1 loving cup cashews, raw too unsalted
1 teaspoon dry soil cardamom
1 pinch salt
3/4 loving cup sugar
1/4 loving cup water
coloured sprinkles or edible foil (optional)

Use a nutrient processor to grind the cashews to a fine powder. Mix inward the cardamom too salt.

Stir together the carbohydrate too H2O inward a saucepan too convey them to the boil. Add the cashews too stir the mixture well. Cook for a farther v minutes, until the mixture has thickened.

Lightly spray a large mixing bowl amongst crude oil too pour inward the cashew mixture. Allow it to cool until yous tin stimulate got it; spray your hands amongst crude oil too lightly knead the mixture until it forms a ball.

Line a pocket-size baking tray or loaf tin amongst newspaper too spray it amongst oil. Plonk inward the cashew dough too smoothen it downwards amongst the oil-sprayed dorsum of a spoon. Decorate amongst sprinkles or edible foil if you're using them. Refrigerate the mixture until firm, too hence piece it into diamonds earlier serving.