Miso-Curry Pumpkin

December 18, 2011

One of the many gifts I showered Cindy amongst on her recent birthday was Maesri offers a vegan friendly curry glue inwards a dismiss that we’ve grown quite fond of. We made a few tweaks, largely to role upwardly vegie box ingredients – doubling the size together with replacing the kale amongst a pile of lettuce leaves together with the coriander amongst basil together with parsley.

I was worried well-nigh the pumpkin peel beingness every bit good chewy then I ended upwardly overcooking the vegetables a fleck – the pumpkin inwards item went a fleck soft together with lost its shape. Luckily the tofu was prissy together with firm, providing to a greater extent than or less textural variation. More importantly, the whole matter tasted fantastic – the combination of white miso together with cerise curry glue is divine, together with the pumpkin together with greens simply soaked upwardly the flavours. This was a nail hitting at the potluck together with may yet last remade at abode to bargain amongst the half-pumpkin yet sitting inwards our fridge.

Miso-Curry Pumpkin
(adapted from a recipe inwards Heidi Swanson’sSuper Natural Every Day)

700g pumpkin
1/2 loving cup olive oil
150g white miso paste
two tablespoons Thai cerise curry glue (we used Maesri)
500g tofu, cubed
8 pocket-sized potatoes, quartered
four tablespoons lemon juice
50g mixed lettuce leaves
120g pepitas, dry out roasted
i bunch basil, roughly chopped
1/2 bunch parsley, roughly chopped
Handful of chives, roughly chopped

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.

Cut the pumpkin inwards half, scoop all the seeds out together with chop into 1cm thick one-half moons (half of our pumpkin was roughly 700g, adjust based on pumpkin size).

Whisk together the miso, olive fossil oil together with curry paste. Take roughly one-half of this mixture together with combine it amongst the tofu, pumpkin together with potatoes inwards a large bowl. Get your hands inwards at that spot together with brand certain that everything gets good covered inwards the sauce.

Add the lemon juice to the remaining sauce.

Lay the sauced-up veggies out on baking trays together with roast. We ended upwardly roasting them for well-nigh 45 minutes – this was belike a fleck every bit good long. Stick the recipe's recommendation of thirty minutes, but brand certain you lot depository fiscal establishment agree upwardly on things regularly together with toss to brand certain everything gets its part of roasting.

Once the vegetables are roasted, popular them into a large bowl together with combine them amongst the remaining sauce, the lettuce leaves together with herbs together with the pepitas. Stir everything thoroughly (but gently if you lot desire your pumpkin slices to retain their shape!) together with serve. We had ours at room temperature together with it was yet wonderful.

Where's The Best, These Sixteen Months?

It's been to a greater extent than than a twelvemonth since nosotros updated our Cutler & Co dessert menu.

Cooking-wise, it was approximately other twelvemonth of black pepper tofu was in all probability my favourite - together with held an Ottolenghi-themed feast alongside friends. Otherwise we've been heavily motivated past times the contents of our fortnightly veggie box. When nosotros instruct a cabbage we've been turning to okonomiyaki or white beans together with cabbage, together with when a pumpkin arrives nosotros plow to miso curry pumpkin, piquant pumpkin pie or herb-crumbed pumpkin wedges. 

Melbourne bloggers proceed to inspire us likewise - Steph at Nonya chicken, dan dan mian, chocolate cheezecake together with caramel slice (with a picayune aid from cauliflower together with caramelised onion tart, black glutinous rice together with tempeh bacon, piece palm saccharide fried tempeh has us shallow-frying regularly together with the surprise mint choc-chip icecream from coconut bacon past times local veg cafe Johanna GGG for the recipe.

Spicy Peruvian 'cheese' sauce, crepas de huitlacoche con salsa de chiles poblanos together with eggy quesadillas were our contribution to the Hispanic fever that's swept Melbourne's nutrient scene, piece nosotros branched out a picayune farther alongside these Brazilian carrot cakes. Cindy also tweaked a few onetime favourites to brand them vegan friendly, inventing her ain hugger-mugger blend of herbs together with spices for Kentucky fried tofu together with taking the eggs together with dairy out of French toast. The H2O ice cream maker didn't instruct quite equally much of a work-out equally inward years gone past times but this date, rum together with pecan H2O ice cream was a dessert highlight. 

We've continued to explore Melbourne's cafes, adding Cafe Lua, Wide Open Road, New Day Rising, L'atelier Monsieur Truffe, Milkwood, Grace, Elceed, Small Victories together with Brother Alec to our favourites. Two places we've loved for years wowed us alongside expanded options to a greater extent than of late - Mankoushe alongside their fantastic cafe together with Monk Bodhi Dharma alongside their Fri dinner menu. 

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 distich of classic mock-meat places disappeared (the EBC together with the Mercy Seat) but were to a greater extent than than adequately replaced past times South, Ren Dao together with Madame K. For pubby variety of food, we've dived into Brother Burger & the Marvellous Brew together with The Beaufort, piece Shanghai Street Dumpling was in all probability the best value house nosotros discovered this year. Middle Fish, Mad Raven Pizza Deluxe, Market Lane mushroom burgers together with Kaprica all practise okay on a dollar:deliciousness ratio equally well. At the other goal of the scale, nosotros had tremendous fancy meals at Movida Next Door together with Attica together with loved the mid-priced wonders beingness served upwards past times The Moor's Head, Mamasita, Chin Chin together with Easy Tiger.

Along alongside the distich mentioned above, nosotros lost Indya Bistro together with Robbies Stein from our favourites list, piece Circa, the Prince has been transformed completely since nosotros visited.

Somewhat surprisingly 2012 has been our to the lowest degree productive blogging twelvemonth - we'll goal upwards ane curt of 200 posts for the year. Twitter has taken upwards approximately of the slack, together with we're continually amazed past times the wonderful people we've met together with overstep friends alongside via the web. Here's to a big 2013!

Dr Morse Bar Too Eatery

November 12, 2017

We spent Lord's Day afternoon at Templestowe checking out the platypus that hang most inward the Yarra out that agency (see motion-picture exhibit at the bottom of this post). The double-decker dorsum took us into Abbotsford too nosotros decided to halt off for dinner on the agency abode at Dr Morse Bar too Eatery. It's a cafe inward the 24-hour interval fourth dimension too a bar inward the level - the courtyard was pounding amongst incongruous identify music too loads of people; within was less crowded but the air was withal dominated yesteryear the DJ.

We started off amongst about drinks - a citrussy mocktail for Cindy too a lemon lime too bitters for me. Nice too refreshing on a warm evening.

On Lord's Day afternoons they run a 'Fists of Fury Asian Garden BBQ' at Dr Morse, too so the carte is a flake to a greater extent than restricted that other times of the week. There's merely plenty vego nutrient for 2 people to part about dishes - nosotros picked out iv of the 5 options for a calorie-free dinner.

We had, clockwise from overstep left, the BBQ pumpkin amongst sugariness tamarind glaze ($7), the charred corn amongst miso butter too togarashi ($8), the Bangkok fried rice ($12), too the grilled tofu amongst xanthous curry too kokosnoot ($8).

This was a pretty decent repast - the corn too the fried rice were likely the best of the bunch, amongst the omelette inward the fried rice providing a skillful salty hit. The tofu looked the best, but the curry sauce was a flake bland too it was entirely the fresh chilli that actually gave it about punch. The pumpkin had a overnice char on it, but the sugariness tamarind glaze didn't actually shine. 

The prices are pretty reasonable - nosotros spent merely nether $40 on an enjoyable repast for two. Service is efficient too friendly too there's a overnice atmosphere on a Lord's Day level (I tin hand the sack imagine it all gets a flake hectic on Fri too Saturday). Dr Morse likely won't drag us over to Abbotsford on its own, but it's a skillful choice if we're always inward the neighbourhood.

As promised - the platypus from Templestowe:

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There are about positive reviews of Dr Morse on Simply Sunday, Lisa Eats World, Chewing is Exercise, The Burger Adventure, Mel: Hot or Not and Peach Water, while The Chicken Scene and The Brunch Addict were less enthusiastic.

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Dr Morse Bar too Eatery
274 Johnston St, Abbotsford
9416 1005
Sunday level menu
https://www.drmorse.com.au/

Accessibility: There's a apartment entryway too ramps betwixt the front end room too the outdoor expanse at the back. Toilets are fully accessible. We ordered at the tabular array too paid at a high bar.