Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

Linking to lots of recipes today: * Vegie curry: I do like Tresna’s Vegetable Masala recipe on Duty Free Living. You can use a variety of vegetables. And Tresna also has a lovely way of laying out and explaining a recipe, which makes it quite user friendly. * Garlic soup: Lovely and simple soup that’s thoroughly good for you, from Martha Rose Shulman. It’s a Garlic, Thyme and Pasta Soup * Breakfast couscous: It was thanks to Anh that I …

Read more 9 comments 26 March, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Spring and An Honest Kitchen

While on this side of the world our days are shortening, the mornings are getting crisper and pumpkin, apples and plums have been arriving in my vegetable box for most of you the opposite is happening – Spring is here. So today, Lucy and I are re-launching the Spring edition of our eMagazine An Honest Kitchen. This new version has been revised for Northern hemisphere readers. While the core material, photos and approach remain the same, we’ve internationalised the …

Read more No comments 24 March, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

• Granola recipe: Lovely, lovely breakfast idea from Vincci of Ceci n’est pas un food blog – it’s an Indian Infusion Granola. Unlike many granola recipes Vincci’s is low in oil and sweetened with apple juice. She also adds a smattering of Indian spices to perk up the flavour. * Eating tempeh and tofu: Kim O’Donnel at True Slant has started a Tempeh and Tofu Challenge. It’s a week long experiment where home cooks, who are unused to cooking with …

Read more 4 comments 19 March, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Vegetables and Fruit

A while ago Iona asked a really good question, about buying vegetables where she lived: bq. It’s a city without farmers’ markets, where fruit and vegetables are transported in lorries without refrigeration and stored in crates out in the hot sun at the city’s vegetable stands . . . as a result, fruit and vegetables often aren’t terribly fresh. Peppers are always wrinkly, carrots and cucumbers are soft and bendy, spinach is half green, half yellowish-brown in colour, asparagus has …

Read more 6 comments 17 March, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

I’m back after a really fun, productive and food obsessed few days in Melbourne, working with Lucy on Autumn. You’ll see some of the results come through on our Flickr group. In the meantime, here, as usual, are the Friday Quicklinks: * Baked butterbeans: I’ve been reading a lot of Nigel Slater recently and his mustard obsession is rubbing off on me. Which means I got a tad over excited about Wendy from A Wee Bit of Cooking’s "Baked butterbeans …

Read more 5 comments 12 March, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

• Iran’s minestrone: I haven’t made this soup yet, but boy it looks good. It’s Yotam Ottolenghi’s chickpea and noodle soup. He describes it as the “Iranian answer to minestrone”. * Why do you cook? There’s an interesting series of posts on Cooking with Amy about why people cook. I particularly like Andrea Nguyen’s list. * Salad dressings: This morning Zoe from Progressive Dinner Party via Twitter (@crazybrave) pointed me to this post on vegetable salad dressings. It includes a …

Read more 6 comments 06 March, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Vegetables, Easier eating and Fruit

Just recently I’ve started subscribing to a weekly fruit and vegetable box. It’s a CSA scheme, where you don’t get any choice. Instead, each Monday a box of in-season fruit and vegetables, grown within 5 hours of Sydney, is delivered. I’m loving it. The produce is fresh, each week I’m getting something new and there have even been some surprises in the box – produce I’ve never tasted. But making the best use of a vegetable box, is a …

Read more 24 comments 02 March, 2010