Melon Salad Amongst Jalapeno-Pickled Pineapple

December 6, 2017

The Smith & Daughters Cookbook describes this fruit salad every bit a misunderstood carte item, met with indifference past times close as well as and therefore obsessed over past times a rare few. I'm 1 of the weirdos who went wild for it in the restaurant, as well as it's run my most-made dish from the cookbook.

While the mass of the salad is 3 kinds of mild-mannered melon, it's the sour, spicy jalapeno-pickled pineapple that bucks against all preconceptions. It's the counterbalance to those cloying rock- as well as honeydew melons I ever needed but never knew how to inquire for. They're fruits I've never previously sought out at the shops; immediately I've bought them 5 times inwards the past times year!

Its creators explicate that this salad is intended to sit down correct past times the master copy meal, but that's non quite how I prefer it. I yell upward of it to a greater extent than every bit a palate cleanser. I idea myself a genius when I served it with a corn fleck tasting terminal autumn, as well as at that spot are in all likelihood other rich, crunchy appetisers it would dyad gloriously with. Earlier this calendar month I took it to a friend's taco nighttime as well as it was a bright, low-cal destination to the meal, when close people had already piled upward 1 or 2 to a greater extent than tortillas than they actually needed. It's non a conventional dessert, but it's pretty practiced at replacing it mid-summer.

I pick out tinkered a little, but non a lot, with the recipe. I skip the garlic inwards the pickle brine, I role a dried bay leafage instead of a fresh one, as well as I role or omit the coriander stems depending on whether I already pick out them. I cutting the fruit into whatsoever cast I experience like, as well as I abide by that the pineapple cores are completely edible 1 time pickled.

This fruit salad has 1 terminal peculiarity you'd best laid for - it doesn't mellow, but entirely gets to a greater extent than fiery with time!

Melon salad with jalapeno-pickled pineapple
(slightly adapted from Shannon Martinez & Mo Wyse's Smith & Daughters Cookbook)

1/2 pineapple
2 jalapenos
1/2 honeydew melon
1/4 watermelon
1/2 rockmelon
salt
handful of mint leaves

pickle brine
1 loving cup apple tree cider vinegar
1 loving cup caster sugar
juice as well as zest of 1 orange
juice as well as zest of 1 lime
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
2 whole cloves
1 cinnamon stick, broken inwards half
small-scale handful coriander stems (optional)
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon whole peppercorns

Prepare the pickles 3-24 hours ahead of serving. Place all of the brine ingredients inwards a medium saucepan as well as convey them to the boil. Turn downwards the rut as well as simmer the brine until the saccharide is completely dissolved. Turn off the rut as well as allow the flavours to infuse at room temperature for xv minutes. During that time, spell the peel from the pineapple, spell the flesh into sparse half-rounds as well as and therefore into triangular segments. Slice the jalapenos into sparse rings.

Place the pineapple as well as jalapeno pieces into a bowl or large jar, as well as pour over the brine. Cover as well as allow it all pickle for upward to 24 hours (I store it inwards the fridge, although the original recipe doesn't yell this).

When it's fourth dimension to serve, take away the rinds as well as seeds from the melons as well as conform them on a platter or house them inwards a large bowl. Scoop the pineapple as well as jalapeno pieces out of the brine as well as add together them to the fruit salad; sprinkle over a fiddling salt, add together the mint leaves as well as a fiddling of the brine. If you're serving everything inwards a bowl, flexure everything together gently.

Kale & Leek Bake

June 11, 2018

We decided to role the Mon world vacation to produce upwards something novel (you powerfulness own got noticed that the weblog is rattling heavy on the restaurants these days - we're even thence cooking, but to a greater extent than oftentimes than non one-time favourites). I flipped through the Smith & Daughters cookbook as well as settled on this kale as well as leek bake - it seemed perfect for the wintery plough that Melbourne's taken. There's a fleck of faffing roughly - y'all flavor upwards some soy milk stock, separately produce the leek as well as the kale, stir together a cheesy sauce to bind it all together and pocket-size upwards some chunky garlic breadstuff crumbs for the top. 

It's worth it though - hearty as well as thick, with an impressive cheesiness for a vegan bake. The crunchy breadcrumbs on laissez passer on larn inward as well as nosotros happily worked our agency through the bake for function lunches all week. This volition definitely come upwards into our wintertime rotation. We served it upwards with this bbq baked tofu recipe, which was some other winner - in all probability a fleck to a greater extent than evidence than y'all tin actually justify when y'all own got thence many other great tofu options, but a smoky, spicy process to larn with our cheesy bake.

Kale & leek bake

(slightly adapted from Shannon Martinez & Mo Wyse's Smith & Daughters Cookbook)

2 cups soy milk

1 loving cup veggie stock

iii garlic cloves, 2 minced as well as i smashed

1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds

2 bay leaves

1/2 teaspoon dark peppercorns

little bunch parsley chopped (set the stems aside)

iv leeks, halved as well as cutting into 1 cm pieces (set the greenish ends aside)

80g Nuttelex

olive oil

1 large bunch of kale, stems removed as well as leaves roughly chopped

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1/4 loving cup flour

120g shredded cheese (we role BioCheese because it melts well)

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

iii cups stale bread, cubed

Pour the soy milk as well as stock into a saucepan as well as throw inward the smashed garlic, fennel seeds, bay leaves, peppercorns, parsley stems as well as whichever greenish leek bits y'all tin squeeze in. 

Bring to the boil as well as and thence own got the mix off the oestrus as well as locomote out it all to infuse for xv minutes. Strain the liquid into a bowl as well as throw out the stems, seeds etc.

Heat a tablespoon of the Nuttelex as well as a glug of olive crude inward a frying pan as well as produce the white leek pieces with a pinch of salt. Give it 10 minutes or thence until it's softened completely. Set aside.

Bring a large saucepan of H2O to the boil. Throw inward a pinch of tabular array salt as well as the kale leaves. Cook them for 3-4 minutes until they've softened but are even thence vivid green. Drain as well as refresh nether some mutual frigidness H2O to halt them from over-cooking.

Preheat the oven to 180°C as well as grease upwards a large baking dish.

Melt the residue of the Nuttelex inward a frying pan. Add one-half the crushed garlic addition the thyme as well as produce for close thirty seconds. Add the flour as well as stir thoroughly until y'all larn a paste. Cook for some other infinitesimal or thence as well as and thence gradually add together the infused soy milk stock, whisking to croak along it all smooth. Add the shredded cheese as well as mustard as well as croak along cooking until the cheese is all melted through.

Fry the breadstuff cubes inward some olive crude along with the chopped parsley as well as the residue of the garlic. Cook for a few minutes until the cubes are crispy as well as lightly golden. Set aside.

Stir the leeks as well as the kale leaves into the cheesy sauce as well as and thence pour the whole mix into your baking tray. Top with the garlic breadstuff cubes as well as bake for xx minutes.

Artichoke & Chickpea Salad

September 9, 2018

This is a salad that we've been enjoying for several years, thank you lot to Smith & Daughters. It's been on a twosome of versions of their dinner together with brunch menu, together with it's every bit good in their cookbook. It's hearty together with hardy together with pickley together with only a chip toasted, something that industrial plant both every bit a side together with every bit a principal dish on its own. 

The master copy version pairs artichoke hearts amongst Jerusalem artichokes; I've gotten lazy nearly the root vegetable together with only role regular quondam potatoes instead. My ii other convenient pantry swaps are dried thyme instead of fresh, together with maple syrup instead of agave.

This is the 2nd or tertiary fourth dimension I've prepared it to portion at a friend's house. It's commonly tough plenty to move inwards its terminal serving state, but this i had a ii together with a one-half hr educate journeying betwixt prep together with presentation hence I got finicky together with packed many of the components separately. Rocket: inwards its ain bag. Almonds: lightly roasted hence jarred. Roasted potatoes together with paprika chickpeas sharing i lunchbox, charred artichoke hearts together with capers inwards another. Lemon-cumin dressing: jarred together with ready for a finally emulsifying milkshake earlier pouring. It was worth the endeavour to save all those textures, together with the entire salad was happily demolished inwards a sitting, making the educate trip domicile all the easier.

Artichoke & chickpea salad
(slightly adapted from Shannon Martinez & Mo Wyse's Smith & Daughters Cookbook)

1 tin chickpeas
olive oil
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
modest handful of slivered almonds
500g potatoes
2 teaspoons dried thyme
400g tin artichoke hearts
45g capers
2 large handfuls rocket
tabular array salt together with pepper

dressing
juice of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon maple syrup
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
1/3 loving cup olive oil
tabular array salt together with pepper

Preheat an oven to 180°C.

Drain together with rinse the chickpeas, hence spread them out inwards a small-medium baking tray. Drizzle over the around olive oil, sprinkle inwards the paprika together with add together a petty salt. Stir good together with bake for 20-30 minutes (mine never actually crisp upward every bit promised).

This is a adept chance to toast the almonds inwards a carve upward modest baking dish. There's no withdraw for oil! Just go along an oculus on them to avoid burning - they'll alone attain got nearly five minutes.

Scrub the potatoes together with acre them into cubes, peel on. Place them inwards a large baking tray, drizzle them amongst olive oil, hence add together the thyme, addition around tabular array salt together with pepper. Toss everything together, hence bake the potatoes until tender, 30-40 minutes.

After the almonds are out of the oven together with cooling, There's likely plenty fourth dimension to brand the dressing. Place all of the ingredients inwards a lidded drinking glass jolt together with give them a thorough shake.

Drain together with lightly rinse the artichoke hearts, hence acre them into quarters. Lightly clothes them amongst olive oil, tabular array salt together with pepper. Set a frypan on high rut together with sear the artichokes on 1-2 sides. Remove the artichoke hearts. Drain the capers together with popular them into the pan for only a minute, until they pop.

When it's fourth dimension to serve, layer upward the rocket, potatoes together with chickpeas, artichokes together with capers, hence the almonds. Pour over the dressing together with lightly toss everything together if you lot attain got the space.

Kimchi, Gochujang & Cheese Scrolls

December 16, 2018

I bought Cindy a re-create of the Smith in addition to Deli cookbook for her birthday in addition to committed to cooking something out of it when the weekend rolled around. Cindy was swell to recreate the Deli's famous scrolls - the touchstone choice inwards the mass is vegemite in addition to cheese, but nosotros went for i of the alternatives: kimchi, gochujang in addition to cheese.

I'm non a confident baker, but this came together pretty good inwards the end. I needed a *lot* to a greater extent than flour than the initial 3.5 cups specified inwards the recipe, but i time I got the dough to the correct sort of texture the residual was pretty easy. If you're making them for brekkie you'll take away to larn upwards early on - there's a chip of fourth dimension waiting for the dough to residual etc - but they're good worth the effort. We ate this whole tray inwards almost ii days in addition to I'm swell to essay to a greater extent than variations on futurity lazy weekends.

Kimchi, gochujang & cheese scrolls
(from Smith & Deli-cious past times Mo Wyse & Shannon Martinez)

1 sachet of dried yeast (2 teaspoons)
ii tablespoons caster sugar
1.5 cups warm water
3.5 cups of flour addition extra if needed (I intend I used at to the lowest degree four cups)
ii teaspoons salt
90ml olive oil
ii tablespoons gochujang, mixed amongst 1 tablespoon warm H2O in addition to 1 tablespoon tomato plant glue (adjust the quantities depending on your honey of chilli here)
1/2 loving cup of kimchi
200g grated cheese (we used the pre-grated Biocheese)

Combine the yeast, saccharide in addition to H2O inwards a bowl in addition to operate out for v minutes until it starts to froth upwards a bit.

Combine the flour in addition to tabular array salt inwards a large bowl. Stir through the fossil oil in addition to and thus add together the yeast mixture stirring constantly (the master recipe suggests using an electrical mixer amongst a dough claw - I'd belike produce this chip past times paw side past times side time, but produce whatsoever you're to a greater extent than comfortable with).

Mix thoroughly until you've got a gummy dough ball - I had to add together a lot of extra flour at this stride to larn a knead-able dough. Knead your dough for at to the lowest degree v minutes until it's soft in addition to elastic. 

Leave to essay out inwards a warm house for one-half an sixty minutes or thus - it should double inwards size. Punch it dorsum downwardly to its master size.

Preheat your oven to 190°C. 

Dust your bench amongst to a greater extent than flour in addition to ringlet the dough out into a large rectangle - almost 45 x 30cm, perchance 10-15mm thick.

Spread the gochujang mix evenly across the dough in addition to and thus sprinkle over the kimchi in addition to cheese. Carefully ringlet the whole rectangle upwards into a giant spiral in addition to and thus cutting it into 8 scrolls, each almost 6-7cm wide.

Lay the scrolls out on a baking tray, encompass amongst a tea towel or plastic wind in addition to allow them residual for closed to other 15-20 minutes in addition to and thus bake for twenty minutes, until things outset to become golden on top. 

Leave the tray to cool for 10 minutes in addition to and thus split upwards the scrolls in addition to scoff them down.

Cheesy Broccoli Pie

March 22-23, 2019

We had a weekend away inwards the dry reason amongst a large grouping of friends lately together with nighttime 2 of our communal dining schedule was Pie Night. H5N1 few of us brought pre-prepared fillings together with baked upward a plethora of pies to feed the masses. Our contribution was a vegan cheesy broccoli pie from the Smith & Deli cookbook. It was wonderful, providing a overnice flare-up of greens to kickoff the shepherd's together with mushroom pies that others prepared. The cheesy sauce is pretty horrifying from a nutritional perspective, but it's goddamn delicious - gooey together with a flake rich together with the perfect pal for the broccoli. Highly recommended. 

Cheesy broccoli pies

(from Smith & Deli-cious yesteryear Mo Wyse & Shannon Martinez)

2 large broccoli heads, chopped

90g vegan margarine

1/3 loving cup olive oil

i leek, white together with lite greenish parts, sliced finely

2 cloves garlic, minced

1/3 loving cup manifestly flour

i loving cup veggie stock

i loving cup soy milk

i 1/2 cups grated vegan cheese (we used mostly Bio Cheese)

i tablespoon nutritional yeast

i tablespoon Dijon mustard

1/2 loving cup parsley, chopped

i teaspoon dried thyme

common salt together with pepper

Blanch the broccoli inwards a large pot of boiling water. Drain together with laid aside.

Heat the margarine together with olive crude inwards a large saucepan together with tiddler the leek until soft. Add garlic together with gear upward for some other infinitesimal earlier whisking through the flour together with cooking for some other twosome of minutes.

Slowly add together inwards the stock together with soy milk, whisking to smoothness along the way. Stir through the cheese, nutritional yeast, Dijon, parsley together with thyme together with gear upward until the cheese has melted, v minutes or so. 

Add common salt together with pepper to the sauce to sense of savour together with and hence stir the broccoli dorsum in. Cook for some other v minutes together with and hence function out to cool.

That's your filling - nosotros wrapped halved Borg's puff pastry sheets into lilliputian squares around a few tablespoons of filling together with baked until the pastry went golden (about 25 minutes). Spectacular.

Smith & Deli Brownies

April 19, 2019

I'm testing out a span of dissimilar vegan brownie recipes inward the lead-up to a particular occasion. There are a few such recipes on the weblog already, but I've nonetheless got the appetite to endeavour more. 

The Smith & Deli cookbook was an obvious identify to relaunch from. Their base of operations recipe isn't besides complicated; non-dairy yoghurt was the alone cistron nosotros don't routinely convey at home, in addition to fifty-fifty it is easily institute inward most supermarkets now.

A large quantity of cocoa pulverization in addition to a heaping loving cup of chocolate chips convey these brownies looking rattling nighttime in addition to rich, yet they're truly on the cakier side in addition to non equally deeply flavoured equally I'd expected. I was able to strap a lunchbox of them onto the dorsum of my bike to portion alongside our friend who missed out on those shortbread cookies. These brownies were pretty groovy alongside a loving cup of tea, but I'm directing my search towards fudgier recipes next.

Smith & Deli brownies
(from Smith & Deli-cious past times Shannon Martinez & Mo Wyse)

3/4 loving cup margarine
1/2 loving cup kokosnoot yoghurt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 cups brownish sugar
1 1/2 cups gluten-free evidently flour
3/4 loving cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 loving cup soy milk
1 loving cup chocolate chips

Preheat an oven to 170°C. Line a 22cm foursquare baking tray alongside paper, in addition to lightly spray it alongside oil.

With an electrical beater, cream together the margarine, yoghurt, vanilla in addition to saccharide until low-cal in addition to fluffy. In a assort large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, baking pulverization in addition to bicarbonate of soda. Gradually crunch these dry out ingredients into the margarine mixture. Gradually crunch inward the soy milk until everything is good combined. Fold inward the chocolate chips.

Pour the brownie batter into the lined baking tray, gently shine over the top, in addition to bake for most 45 minutes - it's OK for the centre to nonetheless endure a fight wobbly.