Vegetarian

Start lowering your carbon footprint on ‘Meatless Mondays’ with these dishes.

It is so important to not only help the planet but to also maintain (or reduce) our waistlines by having at least one meat-free meal a week. I have many more than that and I love sharing them here for your inspiration.

Baked pumpkin cannelloni

Posted on April 29, 2011

Sorry if you’ve turned up here looking for Royal Wedding themed food. You’re not going to find it!

Instead, you get this fairly ugly looking cannelloni, but don’t judge this dish by it’s cover because it’s actually very yummy.

This is the last recipe I have developed for Vitasoy and is an easy mid-week family meal. I hope you’ll consider making it on a Monday and participate in the Meatless Monday campaign to help reduce your carbon footprint and improve your health with at least one vegetarian meal a week. (more…)

Recipes for leftover Easter eggs

Posted on April 25, 2011

Hands up who has a surplus of chocolate right now? Me too.

Never fear, I have collated some of my yummiest chocolate recipes, so you can go ahead and melt down your leftover Easter eggs and have some fun in the kitchen.

Let’s start with the recipe pictured above. It is a double whammy for today; chocolate and ANZAC ice cream sandwiches. There is even a dollop of peanut butter in there for good measure. The recipe uses a prepared chocolate product, but you can simply melt down some eggs and drizzle it over. (more…)

Miso-soy caramel with fresh pineapple

Posted on April 20, 2011

It doesn’t look like much but this is the most wonderful dessert after a big meal!

Or any meal for that matter.

The caramel is an adaptation of my crazy concoction of Vegemite caramel (which is delicious, by the way) using Vitasoy soymilk instead of cream. White miso paste replaces the Vegemite and works really well to give the sweet caramel a savoury edge. (more…)

World Figolli Day

Posted on April 17, 2011

One of the nicest women I have encountered via the wonderful world of blogging is Nanette from Gourmet Worrier. We have so far only ‘met’ online but we are hoping to rectify that this year. However, I have met her lovely husband in real life and collaborated with him on a few projects.

We were initially introduced when I, being the bossy boots/helpful/nosey person that I am, emailed her about a bug I noticed on her blog and then our friendship blossomed from there. She recently sent me the most gorgeous apron for Poppy and I’m busting for her to be old enough to wear it in the kitchen with me! (more…)

Quick and easy mushroom strudel

Posted on April 16, 2011

This is so easy to make, yet so impressive when served to guests sliced steaming hot at the table. May I suggest you add a bit of theatre to your next dinner party with this strudel? Or serve it to your family for dinner and make weeknights special (without too much effort!).

Autumn is the best time to enjoy mushrooms as the damp weather makes them grow like crazy so you’ll no doubt bump into loads of seasonal specimens at your local farmers market.

I used swiss brown and cup mushrooms but feel free to substitute all types of seasonal mushrooms including shiitake, enoki or oyster. Basically whatever you can get your hands on that’s freshest. (more…)