Recipes and reflections in which our vegetarian heroine dreams of being tall and graceful as a giraffe, being a goddess in the kitchen, and being gladdened by green gadgets, green food and green politics because green is the colour of hope.
Good Friday is my day to bake hot cross buns. I took a batch out of the oven a couple of hours ago and they are lovely. I will post about them when I have had (...)
They say it's gonna be a hundred degrees, even more maybe, but that won't stop the roast Who's gonna make the gravy now? I bet it won't taste the same Just add (...)
A couple of months ago I baked my first cake using sourdough starter. It seems fitting to start this year's Vegan MoFo with a recipe from Vegan MoFo last year. (...)
For my birthday this year I revisited a favourite cake. I loved both the rich chocolate cake and decorating with green icing. It is like a meeting of my (...)
Beetroot and caramelised onion galette with vegan mozzarella
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A few weeks ago I had a vision of a vegan galette complete with vegan mozzarella. It was a disaster of a night. The zucchini would not cook in the galette so I (...)
A while back, I borrowed Gwyneth Paltrow's Notes from My Kitchen from the library. It has lots of great simple recipes in it. I bookmarked lots to try. I made (...)
Summer calls for salads. Something easy that requires lots of greens, something juicy, a sharp vinaigrette and creamy cheese is perfect. Caeli's Strawberry (...)
Chocolate banana swiss roll - vegan aqua faba experiment
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Those of you who are familiar with swiss rolls might guess from this top photo that it was not a complete success. For if it was I would probably have a lovely (...)
Apple pastries with spiced red wine for festive weekend
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My mum is better than me at cooking for the recipes she tears out of newspapers and magazines. This Queens Birthday weekend I helped her make an amazing (...)
I recently found a superb carrot, walnut and cranberry salad in the Vegetarian Times among Thanksgiving recipes. I find it surprising to find a salad in a (...)
Each year E and I have an intimate dinner for two at home to celebrate Christmas before the larger family dinner on Christmas day. (Actually we had company (...)
So according to The Age newspaper, Melbourne is the world capital of food allergies. I can confirm that this makes contributing food to social gatherings (...)
I experiment with sourdough bread to incorporate vegan cheeze in memory of Barbara's humourous bread and cheese supper on The Good Life.Television show: The (...)
Lime and coconut cake, glazed tofu and mistaken identity
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On my recent In My Kitchen post I showed you a haul of lemons and limes from our trees in the backyard. You might not have noticed that they were all yellow. I (...)
You could be mistaken for thinking I spend my days finding new ways to add nuts into chocolate concoctions. Today's recipe seems like covering ground that has (...)
We went to the Slow Food City Marketplace last Saturday. It is part of the Taste of Slow Festival in Melbourne. According to Slow Food Victoria the slow food (...)
