Vegetable side dishes

Swede/rutabaga, chorizo and thyme savoury crepes

February 12, 2010

  Rutabaga.  Now isn’t that a word to excite the imagination?  It makes me think of Winnebagos, Route 66, and cross country drives.  Of 50s diners with chrome-trim barstools, cherry pie on the menu, and a waitress called Alice.  Of saguaro cacti and Freightliner trucks, glittering with chrome and driven by ZZ Top lookalikes.  The word swede, [...]

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Moroccan-spiced roasted vegetables

January 19, 2010

So the festive season is well and truly over.  All the Christmas decorations have been taken down, all the gammon leftovers have been eaten, and everyone is talking about good intentions, more exercise, losing weight, drinking less and eating light.  Going out to dinner with friends has become fraught with difficulties as this one won't go [...]

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Chickpea and chorizo stew

December 9, 2009

  Wouldn’t it be good if life could always be as simple as it is on holiday? No panic about switching off the alarm and going back to sleep for an hour. No having to make sandwiches for lunch in the morning while you are still half asleep. No energy-sapping commute with miserable fellow-commuters. No worrying [...]

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Roasted butternut and sage risotto

November 8, 2009

Earlier this year at the start of summer, I bought a bunch of packets of herb seeds.  I planted them in teensy pots and waited for them to sprout.  Some sprouted almost immediately, others took a little longer, and one bunch did not sprout at all.  I had three little baby plants in one pot [...]

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Seven-layer salad

October 22, 2009

The Holy Roman Empire is often cited as an example of a name which is inaccurate in all three its components (being neither Roman, nor holy, nor a proper empire).  At least this salad's name scores a two out of three for accuracy – it is a salad and it definitely has layers.  It's only [...]

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Cheesy vegetable potjiekos – and our annual Big SA braai

September 25, 2009

When Sir Steve Redgrave won Olympic gold for the third time as part of the British coxless four rowing team in Atlanta, he  announced his retirement from rowing with the now-famous words: "if anybody sees me go anywhere near a boat, they have my permission to shoot me". As I flopped onto the sofa last Sunday night, [...]

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Crunchy carrot, cress & cabbage salad

August 26, 2009

  Anybody who’s a fan of Terry Pratchett’s wonderful Discworld series of novels will be familiar with the witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg.  Granny Weatherwax has the nifty power of “Borrowing”, the art of overlaying her mind on the mind of another creature, like an owl or even once a beehive, so as to see through its [...]

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