Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

Friday’s Quicklinks . . . on Saturday. * May and June Seminars: For those of you in Sydney, I’m taking bookings for the May and June Healthy Eating Seminars I’m running at clinic. There are two different seminars to choose from: Low GI Cooking and Five Meals in Under 20 Minutes. I’ve also scheduled some mum/dad and baby friendly sessions. For more information click here. * A preview of Ottolenghi’s new book: If you’re a fan, like me, of Yotam …

Read more 5 comments 24 April, 2010

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Autumn

Lucy and I are very happy to be releasing the Autumn edition of An Honest Kitchen today. It’s full of recipes which are not only easy, but they’re also healthy and nutritionally balanced. Autumn contains soups which are meals-in-a-bowl, a range of main courses and there are even some puddings. The cost is A$19.95. If you want to take look, there’s a free extract available for download from here, which includes a recipe and shows the full list of …

Read more 8 comments 20 April, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Vegetables

Since I’ve been getting a vegetable box each week, I’ve been eating a lot more basil. I’ve always liked basil, but rarely buy the herb because after just 24 hours in the fridge my bunches would always start turning black and slimy. I hate wasting food and with basil I’d end up chucking out half of the bunch each time. For the first couple of weeks I made a lot of pesto. But then Mr and Mrs Cheap Date Sydney …

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Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Miscellanea

• Bone friendly recipes: In the past few weeks Sophie has posted a couple of recipe gems. Two meals which despite having no dairy are still high in calcium. A couple of weeks ago I linked to her Tofu with a Moreish Tomato and Ginger Sauce. While the latest is White Beans with Figs, Leek and Rosemary. It’s lovely food. * Food safety: Interesting piece from The Independent on sell-by dates. There’s a good round-up at the end of what …

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Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Autumn

Lucy and I are cracking on with the Autumn An Honest Kitchen. It’s coming together rather well. For a while now we’ve been posting photos onto Flickr. Out-takes, process shots, some of the bodgy photos I’ve taken of early recipe testing – they’re all up at the An Honest Kitchen Flickr group. And a few of you lovely people have also posted your photos. Pictures of the recipes you’ve made. We’d love to see more of you there and …

Read more 2 comments 02 April, 2010

Posted by kathryn in Vegan, Vegetables and Autumn

I’ve been eating this a lot recently. It’s partly due to the vegie box I’ve started getting. Almost every week the box has been chock full of greenery. Basil, silverbeet, watercress, bok choy, water spinach, parsley, Chinese broccoli, coriander, amaranth and even sweet potato leaves have been in there. Freshly picked and bursting with luscious goodness, I’ve wanted to eat them straight away. This also coincided with me re-discovering one of my old cookery books. It’s a small thin, …

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