Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Vegetables, Fish, Ethics & Sustainablity, Dairy and Labels & advertising
- Lamb, cauliflower and spices: Interesting looking Middle Eastern inspired dish with no name from Spice and More. There’s eggplant, pine nuts, some lovely spices and a good idea for including cauliflower – especially if it’s not your favourite veg.
- Ethics in advertising: There’s been a fair bit of criticism PETA and one of their advertising campaigns recently. Here’s a piece from Rudd Sound Bites, Yoni Freehoff’s perspective at Weighty Matters and PETA’s response at The Huffington Post.
- Tomato & fetta bake: Such a simple idea from Green Gourmet Giraffe a tomato and fetta bake. Fetta covered with a quick tomato sauce and some fresh parsley, then baked in the oven. Delicious.
- Five ways with sardines: Sardines are such a good little fish. They’re cheap, contain a good amount of Omega 3s and are mostly sustainably caught. The Times has five easy ways to use them.
- Spreading food choices in New York: A piece from the New York Times about increasing the number of supermarkets and sales of fresh produce in poorer areas of the city
- Eggplant with goats’ cheese: Another simple idea, this time from Love and Olive Oil slices of grilled eggplant with goats’ cheese pine nuts and fresh herbs. Found via Caitlin from Roaming Tales.
25 September, 2009
Comments
Hi there,
I was wondering whether you had any information on nightshade allergies? I’ve recently been told by my naturopath that I may have one and have been avoiding tomatoes & eggplants & capsicum due to this (I already avoid potato for other reasons.) I love coming to your blog for info & recipes but lately it’s been hard looking at ANY recipes from any source because so many things involve tomato & eggplant (sadly, two veggies I simply love!)
Cassie you poor thing – and this edition of Quicklinks is so tomato and eggplant rich. I remember doing a whole lot of allergy testing ages ago and I was fine with no gluten and no dairy. It was the tomatoes I had the biggest problems giving up – so you have my sympathies.
I actually had a brilliant meal this week – with not an ounce of tomato or eggplant. It was Lucy’s Radiant soup. I added a bit of tofu and some noodles and it makes a lovely, lovely meal.
You could also make Ottolenghi’s wild rice salad or have mejadarah with salad. Some of the sardine recipes above are suitable. You could also do some exploring around Thai and Vietnamese food – which are often made without tomatoes, etc.
If you have a copy of An Honest Kitchen then the Wontons and shiitake soup would suit, as would the chicken coleslaw, all the fish, meat and vegetarian dishes (as long as you used a non-tomato salsa in one), as well as the desserts.
Don’t worry, it takes some time to adjust to dietary restrictions, but there is lots out there you can eat.dietary restricut
Cassie – a few other suggestions – these oven baked falafels (without the chillies); double broccoli quinoa; or carrot, chermoula and ricotta fritters. Hope this helps.
thanks for the link, kathryn – the tomato and feta bake was so good but I love your suggestion of baking the feta on top – will need to experiment with it
A nice idea for cassie for pizza is to use a carrot puree as a sauce base instead of the usual tomato sauce
and thanks for all the links – so interesting as always
Johanna – love the carrot puree idea, absolutely brilliant.
I’ve also made a red sauce for pasta with beets/carrots instead of tomatoes. So delicious! Especially in the warmer months.
Gotta check out that sardine article. I’m always trying to incorporate those little suckers!
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