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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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Archive for An Honest Kitchen Category

Spring recipes & An Honest Kitchen

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Spring

Last week I had the pleasure of actually spending time with Lucy. While we work together closely on An Honest Kitchen, I could count on one hand the number of times we’ve actually seen each other face-to-face. An evening and a morning spent together, catching up and talking about food, gave us the time and space to talk about An Honest Kitchen. h3. What’s happened to Spring? Those of you in Australia will have noticed we are in the latter …

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An Honest Kitchen: Winter & a Spring/Summer gift voucher

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen

Two An Honest Kitchen announcements today: h2. Re-release of Winter When Lucy and I released the winter edition of An Honest Kitchen for those of you over the other side of the world, it was the height of summer. Talking soups, roasting lamb cutlets and comforting desserts was just not on your agenda. Therefore today we are re-releasing the winter edition of An Honest Kitchen. This new version has been revised for Northern hemisphere readers. While the core material …

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Win a full year subscription to An Honest Kitchen

Posted by kathryn in Blogging and An Honest Kitchen

Menu for Hope is back. Chez Pim’s wonderful annual fundraising event. From now until Christmas Day you can buy tickets for a wide range of prizes offered by food bloggers from around the world. h3. Who are we raising money for? All the money goes to support the UN World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress. P4P enables smallholder and low-income farmers to supply food to WFP’s global operation. This puts more cash directly into their pockets; bolsters fragile local economies; …

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Menu For Hope Winners and a Competition

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Blogging

I’m interrupting all the ingredients talk to update you on Menu for Hope and a competition. h3. Menu For Hope The sixth annual Menu for Hope raffle involved 200 bloggers, 204 prizes and over the two week period, we raised $78,898 for the UN World Food Program. Thank you so much to everyone who bought raffle tickets and made donations. The winners of the An Honest Kitchen subscriptions are Catherine Morey-Nase and Katrina Davidson. Congratulations to both of you, …

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An Honest Kitchen: Buy the Spring & Summer Edition

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen

Lucy and I are very, very happy to announce the release of the Spring and Summer editions of our eMagazine An Honest Kitchen. Between the two volumes there are over thirty recipes, covering soups, main courses and desserts. New to these issues, we’ve included a key in the table of contents, showing which recipes are vegetarian or can be adapted to be vegetarian. Plus there are cooking notes, storage tips and countless other food suggestions. h3. What’s in …

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I'm on the Two Fit Chicks podcast! Plus other news

Posted by kathryn in Blogging and An Honest Kitchen

Last week I recorded a Q & A session with Shauna and Carla from Two Fit Chicks and a Microphone. The podcast is now available online and it’s all about Food Glorious Food. We talk about Vitamin D, the importance of eating a variety of foods, grapeseed oil, whey powder and a whole lot of other things. For details about how to download see the Two Fit Chicks website. h3. An Honest Kitchen on Flickr and Twitter Lucy and I …

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An Honest Kitchen Spring: the International Edition

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Spring

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 …

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Announcing a competition . . .

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 …

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Quicklinks

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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Autumn An Honest Kitchen - out now

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 …

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An Honest Kitchen: Soup

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Soups

! With winter in full swing Lucy and I have decided to put together a mini collection of An Honest Kitchen soup recipes. Guaranteed to be comforting and warm at this time of year. The collection costs AU$3.00 and contains four recipes which appeared in the Autumn and Winter editions of our e-magazine. Each is easy, tasty and a great meal-in-a-bowl. If you’d like to buy a copy you can do so through PayPal, by clicking on the Buy Now …

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Cooking for one

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Summer

Today Lucy and I are very excited to be releasing the latest issue of An Honest Kitchen – Cooking for One. We’ve spent the last few months talking food, testing, re-testing, photographing, writing, trying out some new things and giving the magazine a fresh new look. Cooking for One is compact edition, with a summer focus. Rather than over-loading you with stacks of new food, we’re focusing on three healthy, tasty and, of course, delicious recipes. Three recipes, which …

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Christmas food & gift ideas

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Summer

If you’re stuck for Christmas presents or what to cook this festive season, here are some ideas: h3. The Everyday Kitchen I’ve been blogging a whole lot of Christmas stuff on my Everyday Kitchen blog at Readers Digest. There are posts on: * Gluten Free cooking, planning, Christmas menus and gifts * a vegetarian Christmas menu * easy meals to cook on nights off from the festive season * ways to approach all the excess eating and drinking * …

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Win a copy of Cooking for One AND 2012 cooking class schedule

Posted by kathryn in Blogging and An Honest Kitchen

Couple of notices today. Firstly, The Amazing Adventure of Dietgirl is 11 this week. Eleven whole years old, which is quite remarkable. To celebrate, the lovely Shauna is having a series of giveaway competitions, including some copies of our eMagazine An Honest Kitchen – Cooking for One. To win you just have to leave a comment on this blog post. And then cross your fingers. Secondly, I’ve just put together my 2012 clinic cooking class schedule. Classes take place on …

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Quicklinks

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen, Eggs, Dinners and Ethics & Sustainablity

  • Thoughts on Food: I love this poster. It’s so relevant, timely and in tune with much of the current thinking about food and yet it’s from 1917. * Healthy Fast Food: Ages ago I put together a recipe feature for Reader’s Digest on Healthy Fast Food. The recipes are now up on their website, including fish and oven cooked chips, chicken ‘nuggets’ with coleslaw, a beef burger, mushroom, zucchini and feta pizza and spiced apple pies. * *Draft …

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Launching Seasonal Desserts - An Honest Kitchen

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen

Today, Lucy and I are incredibly proud to launch two things. Firstly, a new edition of An Honest Kitchen, plus we finally have an official website dedicated to our expanding ideas for An Honest Kitchen. h3. Seasonal Desserts The new edition addresses one of those things that, for many people is their dietary undoing – dessert. Why dessert? We humans have evolved to love fat and sugar and there is a place for dessert, even in the healthiest of …

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Quicklinks

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen and Miscellanea

It’s been a while, so time for some Quicklinks. * Three meals a day: Interesting piece on the history of breakfast, lunch and dinner – this hasn’t always been how we’ve eaten. * Baked eggs: I discovered Foodie Underground today. It’s a great looking and, at times, very funny site. My eyes were drawn to this recipe for Baked Eggs with Avocado and Goat Cheese. * Beetroot: I am, of course, still obsessed with beetroot, so my eyes lit …

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The new An Honest Kitchen + a Pesto Pasta Makeover

Posted by kathryn in Grains, An Honest Kitchen and Recipes

Last week Lucy and I released Issue 6 of An Honest Kitchen, our Makeovers edition. The idea for Makeovers actually came from one of our readers, who wanted us to give the An Honest Kitchen treatment to some of the most popular meals around. And it’s an idea we both loved. In Makeovers we’ve revamped the traditional family roast, pasta, fish and chips, egg based meals and even tacos and …

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