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An Honest Kitchen

An Honest Kitchen is a series of seasonally-based e-magazines focussed on real food that's good for you. Its honest food - no spin, unrealistic styling or glossing over what's involved in cooking and eating well. For details and latest issue click here.

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

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Some thoughts on butter

Posted by kathryn in Dairy

I was asked recently if butter was better for you, because it it was a “natural wholefood”. This question made me pause, because you know what, I think we’re in serious danger of over-sentimentalising butter. Butter used to be made on individual farms, by people churning the extra cream from their milk. Some people still make it this way for their own use and there are also small artisan producers who are continuing this tradition of hand made butter. However …

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