Recipes – vegan

Savoy cabbage, courgette & runner bean stir-fry

November 26, 2008

One of the things about living alone (albeit temporarily!) is that you still go gorocery shopping as if you are buying for two.  Your shopping autopilot just seems to reach automatically for so many apples, so many courgettes, so many salmon fillets… This means that, quite often, you have leftover bits and pieces.  Half an [...]

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Cumin and caraway honey-roast carrots

May 4, 2008

Sometimes, the simplest things are the best.  A really good espresso.  A perfectly ripe peach Hot buttered toast. Freshly squeezed orange juice. And the same holds true for vegetables.  If you buy the freshest and best you can afford, then you need to do very little to them to make them into something special. One [...]

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Aunt Dulcie’s tomato and marmalade soup

February 10, 2008

If you read this blog with any regularity, you will have noticed that I seem to go around collecting recipes from all my family and friends – and you'd be spot-on!  Yes, it's all fine and well to buy beautifully illustrated cookbooks and dream of making truffle foams served in espresso cups or pomegranate granitas, [...]

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Kalyn’s roasted green beans

January 27, 2008

One of the very best things about food blogging is the fact that, if you regularly read other people’s blogs, you will have a never-ending supply of tried and tested recipes at your fingertips to inspire you every day. Sometimes you will see something that’s so amazing that you will print the recipe and make [...]

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Cilantro, cucumber and tomato salad

November 10, 2007

It seems that I am on a roll writing about love-it-or-hate-it foods. Hands up – who likes fresh coriander leaves, a.k.a. cilantro?  I know I do – and Nick has repeatedly declared that fresh cilantro is his all-time favourite herb.  But as I have discovered, this is not an opinion shared by everyone – to [...]

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Slow-roast tomato and zucchini pasta

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So… you buy a ton of tomatoes.  You spend a day or so roasting them veeeeeeery slowly in your oven.  Then you bottle them in olive oil.  But then comes the hard part:  what to do with them?  Of course, the easy option is simply to eat them out of the jar when nobody is [...]

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Roast figs with balsamic vinegar and pine nuts

October 23, 2007

Aaaah, figs.  We are bang in the middle of their lamentably short season at the moment and I don’t seem to be able to walk past them without buying a few. My mom used to rave about them – they had a tree in their garden when she was growing up in Pretoria and she [...]

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