An Honest Kitchen

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What I'm eating

  • Saturday. Iku lunch today: tofu burger w/ steamed veg, pickled red cabbage & beetroot, & chickpea w/ beetroot. Plus they're amazing dressing
  • Thurs late lunch: Pad Thai with tofu and double the vegetables.
  • Hungry all morning & knew lunch was going to be late. Had half a tin of white beans, a banana, a peach & square of Beetrotinger cake.
  • Thurs breakfast: rye and pumpkin seed toast again. One w/ white bean paste / dip & t'other w/ marmalade. Plus some pineapple.
  • Made kind of polenta pie for Tues dinner. Polenta top & bottom, w/ filling of lentils & silverbeet cooked in tomato.Topped w/ cheese & baked

Archives

A Recipe: Spiced Potato, Avocado & Broad Bean Salad

Posted by kathryn in Spring, Vegetables and Salads

I’ve been racking my brains trying to remember this salad. It’s something I put together for a picnic. A busy week, combined with little time to organise myself, meant I had to use what was in the cupboard and make it up as I went along. And the salad turned out to be really good. Far, far better than I was expecting. Hence the mental workout, trying to remember what I did. I’m pretty sure I’ve reconstructed it accurately, although …

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Read more 8 comments 25 November, 2010

What I've been reading

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

I’ve recently being playing with a site called Organized Wisdom, as a way of curating the articles and recipes I’ve been reading. It collects together everything I’ve linked to on Twitter and then organises that information into one, easy-ish to view digest. Here’s the list of what I was reading last week. Useful?

Read more 3 comments 16 November, 2010

How I've been using broad beans

Posted by kathryn in Spring and Vegetables

I’ve been eating a lot of broad beans recently. I spent a week at my parent’s place, where they are taking over dad’s garden. Each day we had broad beans with at least one meal and then dad sent me home with a huge bag-full. So I’ve been continuing to eat broad beans most days. This broad bean festival has meant I’ve tried out a few new recipes, with one of the best being these smashed broad beans from Jamie …

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Read more 7 comments 02 November, 2010