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

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

April 2, 2008: Stuffed White Nut Roast

last year alongside i of Johanna's recipes hence it seemed most sensible to bring together inwards her electrical current spider web log event, A Neb at Nutroast, as well as attempt a novel recipe. Or, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than daringly, an former recipe.

As I mentioned inwards passing last time, my root nut roast sense a twosome of years agone was non a rattling pleasant one. I had flora the recipe on the website of the Vegetarian/Vegan Society of Queensland as well as decided to laid upwardly it for dinner piece Michael was off playing sport. Grinding the breadcrumbs as well as nuts, zesting as well as chopping as well as frying took an awfully long fourth dimension inwards our poky trivial kitchen, as well as hence the roast had to bake for an hour! I barely had the unloosen energy to describe together about side veges as well as I was only virtually laid upwardly to yell when the golden, aromatic loaf came out of the oven as well as hence would non form from the baking paper. I knew, equally I chewed as well as picked newspaper fragments out of my mouth, that the roast tasted great, but much fourth dimension would induce got to overstep earlier I attempted that again.

By straight off I felt virtually laid upwardly to conquer the stuffed white nut roast, as well as it proved much easier alongside Michael at domicile to assist. He chopped as well as sauteed piece I operated the nutrient processor, as well as nosotros both mixed as well as layered as well as patted it all down. I took extra attention to grease the baking newspaper well, as well as the roast slid out of it beautifully. It's a rattling nutty roast indeed, non also stodgy when sliced thinly, brightened alongside flavours of parsley as well as lemon. The golden, chewy crust is delicious when it's fresh from the oven but it softens later. Although it doesn't resemble meat at all, the crust as well as stuffing both reminded me of long distant roast chickens.

We ate this roast on that root nighttime alongside fresh spinach, sauteed mushrooms as well as capsicum, as well as a generous splash of gravy. Since hence I've been enjoying it on sandwiches alongside to a greater extent than spinach leaves as well as a dab of mayonnaise.

Stuffed white nut roast
(taken from the Vegetarian/Vegan Society of Queensland website, attributed at that spot to Vegan Feasts past times Rose Elliot)

3 onions, finely chopped
6 tablespoons olive oil
4 tablespoons manifestly flour
300mL water
450g of cashews, blanched almonds and/or macadamias, Earth coarsely inwards a nutrient processor
400g breadcrumbs
4 tablespoons lemon juice
grated zest of the lemon
salt as well as pepper
freshly grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon mixed dried herbs
a handful of fresh parsley, chopped

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C. You volition involve a huge breadstuff loaf tin or 2 smallish loaf tins. Line alongside baking newspaper as well as grease thoroughly.

Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive petroleum inwards a large saucepan as well as nipper 2 of the onions, covered, over depression rut for virtually 10 minutes. Stir them occasionally. The recipe emphasises non allowing the onions to brownish at all, but I can't run across the harm! I intend it's virtually keeping the roast white. Stir inwards the flour as well as then, in i lawsuit it's evenly distributed, the water. Keep cooking as well as stirring until the mixture thickens.

Take the mixture off the heat. Add the nuts, 225g of the breadcrumbs, lemon juice, salt, pepper as well as nutmeg.

In a form bowl, mix together the remaining ingredients: oil, onion, breadcrumbs, lemon zest, dried herbs as well as fresh parsley.

Pat virtually one-half of the nut mixture into the loaf tin(s) as well as shine over the surface. Next, spoon over all of the stuffing mixture from the bowl. Finally, layer on the remaining nut mixture as well as flatten the elevation gently alongside the dorsum of a spoon.

Bake the nut roast for virtually an hour, until lightly browned on the exterior as well as theatre inwards the middle.

April 4, 2008: Friday Featre Nutrient - 10 Ren's Tea Fourth Dimension Ii

01/12/2012: Ten Ren has been permanently shut now.

She's a Screaming Suffragette had filled Cindy alongside enthusiasm for a furnish to Ten Ren's Tea Time. I'd got over the scary beefiness of their faux-beef rendang curry as well as decided that it worth trying their highly recommended vego fish dish. Cindy concurred and, for once, nosotros both ordered the same top dog - the vegetarian lemon fish alongside rice ($8.80). I had visions of something saucy similar the 2007 vego dish of the twelvemonth at She's a Screaming Suffragette had filled Cindy alongside enthusiasm for a furnish to White Lotus. Instead, nosotros got a bowl of patently rice, iii pocket-size vegie accompaniment plates (some form of cubed potato, cucumber as well as a cabbagey mush) as well as a serve of dry out 'fish' slices. The 'fish' had a hint of lemon as well as simply about vaguely seafoody saltiness, but it was as well as then dry out that it actually didn't instruct good alongside the rice - I had to spread the accompanying dishes pretty thinly to flavor upwards the rice plenty for my tastes. To endure honest, I can't actually come across the appeal of this fish-dish - it's dry, solely lightly flavoured as well as non peculiarly fishy. Ah well, it was worth a shot.

Of assort nosotros couldn't take in Ten Ren's Tea Time without sampling simply about of their 80 meg varieties of tea. We both went for H2O ice teas - the lychee dark-green tea for Cindy ($5.50, on the left) as well as the watermelon dark-green tea ($5, on the right) for me. Mine was lightly sweetened alongside a hint of watermelon-y flavour, which didn't overwhelm the essential tea-ness of the drink. Cindy's lychee tea on the other mitt was as well as then strongly lychee flavoured that a brace of sugary sips were all I could handle. Cindy didn't appear to postulate heed it every bit good much though.

I intend we've belike done our dash alongside Ten Ren similar a shot - at that topographic point are every bit good many other She's a Screaming Suffragette had filled Cindy alongside enthusiasm for a furnish to cheap She's a Screaming Suffragette had filled Cindy alongside enthusiasm for a furnish to CBD She's a Screaming Suffragette had filled Cindy alongside enthusiasm for a furnish to food options.

Read nigh our previous take in to Ten Ren's Tea Time She's a Screaming Suffragette had filled Cindy alongside enthusiasm for a furnish to here.

April 3-5, 2008: Java Walnut Splodges

second Bloggers' Banquet was nigh, too nosotros needed to snuff it cooking. We brought a few tried too truthful recipes to the table, but I too wanted to accept a piddling something particular for our chauffeur, Claire the Melbourne Gastronome. It had to hold upwards cute too sweet, but too hardy plenty to weather condition a duet of days at habitation earlier beingness dragged around inward a purse through variable temperatures. Enter Nigella's java walnut splodges.

They were indeed suitably robust, amongst a slightly cakey texture too those softly crunching walnuts. And they were a doddle to position together. But equally I tried a still-warm ane on Th night, I said something I never idea I'd nation virtually a Nigella recipe: "I wishing these were sweeter". So, early Sabbatum morning, I melted some leftover black cooking chocolate too spread it generously on the splodges' apartment surfaces. That did the trick.

The chocolate wasn't sufficient to mocha upwards the entire batch too I'm yet eating some of the leftovers equally Nigella intended them. They're genuinely growing on me, actually. The bitterness of the java too walnuts is a corking pick-me-up on a workday afternoon.

Coffee walnut splodge biscuits

250g evidently flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
200g unsalted butter, softened
75g castor sugar
60g brownish sugar
2 tablespoons instant espresso powder
2 large eggs, beaten
200g walnuts, roughly chopped
200g black cooking chocolate (optional)

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.

In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking pulverization too salt.

In a larger bowl, cream together the butter too sugars. Gradually mix inward the java pulverization too thence the eggs. Stir inward the flour mixture too the walnuts yesteryear mitt until simply combined.

Line a baking tray (or two, if yous direct maintain them) amongst newspaper too driblet generous teaspoons of the dough onto them.

Bake for virtually 12 minutes, until they've simply developed a theatre crust. Let them cool on the tray for five minutes earlier transferring them to a rack.

Optional chocolate layer: Gently melt the chocolate yesteryear your preferred method too spread it on the apartment side of the cooled biscuits. Allow thirty minutes for the chocolate to ready (or chuck 'em inward the refrigerator for 10!) earlier storing the biscuits.

April 5, 2008: Bloggers' Banquet Ii

we congregated to a greater extent than or less Vegout's hearth, nosotros made the pilgrimage to soy bombs inwards together with out of the oven inside minutes, together with had Chinese trend barbeque sauce at the gear upward for dipping.

Jon has since admitted that when the "Cindy's bringing tofu balls" floor circulated before inwards the day, at that spot was some skepticism. And worse, they were messy - crumbling over hands, shirts, together with repeatedly into the sauce dish - but I'm confident the "mmm"s they elicited were the production of to a greater extent than than practiced manners, maybe fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than the relief they provided to empty stomachs. The saucy, salty, succulent reality of the SOY BOMB won out.

With this appetiser out of the agency (as if anyone needed one!), nosotros ventured inwards to the tabular array heaving alongside food...

Michael contributed his now-signature cream cheese brownies. I must live on getting complacent well-nigh their chocolatey charms because I failed to photograph them! However, y'all tin drool over them (and mayhap fifty-fifty brand them yourself) past times going here.

caramelised onion tartlets were a delicious introduction to Agnes from our root gustation of them at the eatery concluding month. Head over to his nutrient blog, fig, blueish cheese together with caramelised onion tart. This was the dish Michael wished for to a greater extent than of later we'd returned dwelling to an empty fridge.

free-form cheesecake that had us running then shamefully late. It was impossible to live on annoyed at it or its creator chocolate tartlette from Jon, the Melbourne Foodie. I genuinely couldn't stand upward for this inwards at luncheon fourth dimension together with took it dwelling alongside me. With a ganache made from milk together with night chocolate, a hint of orangish zest, together with a bittersweet raspberry on top, I'm glad I gave myself room to savour its rich together with fragile flavours.

It may live on hard to imagine, but the fellowship was fifty-fifty equally practiced equally the food! I would never select expected to experience this at ease alongside a grouping of people I've met entirely in ane trial before. Though we're an eclectic mix of ages, backgrounds together with experiences, a shared dearest of cooking together with eating is to a greater extent than than plenty to fuel an afternoon of fun.

The 2008 Circus Pie Classic Is Coming!

2008 Good Shepherd Circus Pie Classic is coming to the Corner Hotel at 4pm on Sunday, May 4. RocKwiz collides alongside Iron Chef equally Australian rockers railroad train to the clock inward an endeavour to print guess John Lethlean. All dishes volition last served alongside a side of alive music. The best flake of all? Proceeds larn to we had terminal year, y'all tin bet Michael in addition to I volition last there.

April 6, 2008: Leftover Makeover - Mocha Cupcakes

chocolate raspberry sandwich cookies was every bit a thank-you gift to Tracy in addition to Lee for lending us camping ground gear for Golden Plains. But a lot of the cookies were only also difficult in addition to crunchy, in addition to I left the gift-giving a niggling also late. Thankfully I did intend fast plenty to freeze the leftover cookies in addition to icing to recycle them into mocha cupcakes.

The java cake is from Nigella's recipe for cappuccino cupcakes, topped amongst the leftover chocolate icing in addition to sprinkled amongst cookie crumbs, which were soil upwards inwards the nutrient processor. Up early on in addition to unadjusted to a Blue Planet without daylight saving, I had plenty of fourth dimension to bake in addition to decorate these earlier coming together upwards amongst Tracy in addition to Lee for a 9:30 breakfast!

A quick pre-breakfast gustation test.