Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

It’s a recipe packed Quicklinks this week! * Low maintenance pesto: I love this easy idea from Jules at Stonesoup – it’s a low maintenance way of making pesto. And Jules completes the post with a recipe – pasta with zucchini and pesto * Neatballs? Another excellent looking meal, this one from Monica of SmarterFitter fame. It’s a vegetarian “meatball” recipe: carrot and walnut tofu neatballs. I think these look fab. * Stewing apple: I like this idea of "stewing …

Read more 7 comments 30 October, 2009

Posted by kathryn in Fish, Ethics & Sustainablity and Miscellanea

• Cauliflower & tahini: Great looking recipe from Martha Rose Shulman, for roasted cauliflower with tahini-parsley sauce. It would be lovely with some falafels and pita bread. * About meat: I loved Jonathon Safron Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and he brings the same quality of writing to this essay on the New York Times website: Against Meat. Thanks to Lisa Dempster for pointing it out. * Chocolate & chickpeas? Instead of nutella, Bittersweet makes a "chocolate and …

Read more 5 comments 23 October, 2009

Posted by kathryn in Vegetables and Spring

Fresh broad beans or fava beans are one of the few vegetables that stick strictly to their season. You can’t buy them in winter and by summer they’ve usually faded away. No lengthy, drawn out availability, instead broad beans are strictly a product of spring. They’re in season here in Australia at the moment and your local fruit and veg shop should have them, still in their pods. But you’d better be quick: by the mid to end of November, …

Read more 10 comments 21 October, 2009

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

• Easy salads: Jules from Stonesoup has been posting some easy salad recipes, including how to make salad with a teaspoon and this excellent warm lentil salad with beetroot and ricotta. * Cranberry harvest: I love these photos and the explanation of a cranberry harvest. The pools of red berries are particularly beautiful. Thanks to Ganga for pointing them out. * A radish recipe: I also like this radish idea – with a honey lime dressing. It’s from the _Figs …

Read more 2 comments 15 October, 2009

Posted by kathryn in Labels & advertising

Choice have put together a report on chicken stock, asking are packaged stocks anything like the real deal? It’s an interesting report, showing most are made of reconstituted ingredients, full of sodium and nowhere near the real deal. This is true of the seemingly better and more expensive brands, which come in liquid tetra packs. h3. Where’s the chicken? I’m pretty cynical about food products, but even I was surprised at how little chicken they actually contain: bq. CHOICE’s hunt …

Read more 22 comments 13 October, 2009

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

This week’s Friday Quicklinks are bought to you . . . on Saturday. * One chicken, three meals: I like this series from British Larder based on what you can do with one chicken. The food is not easy, but I think it’s an imaginative and different approach to cooking a chook. Here’s the second part and the third. * Oat and coconut pudding: Lovely idea from Health Nut of turning an Indian rice pudding into an oat pudding. And …

Read more 2 comments 09 October, 2009

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

If you’re in Sydney and interested in coming along to one of my seminars, I’ve updated the schedule on the Balance2health website. h3. Cooking for one or two I’ve added two new dates to the Cooking for One series – a second Saturday afternoon and a Thursday evening. You can see all the details here. h3. Controlling your weight after 40 Once you hit 40 most women start noticing changes to their body and it seems to become more and …

Read more 2 comments 06 October, 2009

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

• Easy, tasty dinner: I do like Sue’s idea for an easy mid-week dinner. Soba noodles, with a peanut and ginger sauce, vegetables, eggs. Lovely meal. * Recipe nutrient information: Martha Rose Shulman has posted a piece about why she doesn’t calculate the nutrients in her recipes. The article includes thoughts from Marion Nestle as well. * How to freeze fruit: I love this guide to freezing fruit from Pikelet and Pie. I regularly buy back-up boxes of frozen fruit. …

Read more 1 comment 02 October, 2009