A hybrid noodle soup that starts off Hong Kong-style and finishes with Korean-style Gochugang sauce.
Month: April 2023
Gado Gado
An old nugget we used to make at the Amrita in Cuba Street back in the heady hippy days of the 1980s.
April: a walk around the vege patch
April is betwixt and between seasons. Summer stragglers are still producing, just. Some winter crops ready to harvest now, some yet to come on. There are even promises of the spring ahead. It is scarily warm for April. Last night’s low was 15 C and got up to 24 during the day. Summer temperatures!
The April salad bowl
A monthly round up of what’s going into the salad bowl to see how it changes with the seasons.
Cheesy silverbeet rotolo
Rotolo is an Italian classic which is kind of like like a rolled-up lasagne. Here I have made the budget version because I am time rich and money poor, but if you are time poor and money rich you can speed this up by buying ready-made ingredients like pasta and pasta sauce
Dry vegetable sabzi with besan chilla (chickpea pancakes) and raita
I have a beautiful cauliflower ready to eat and it needs a special recipe to shine. Raising such a gorgeous thing takes so much love and care – all that foliar fertilising, liquid feeding, watering and and mulching over weeks and weeks, months even. I prefer not to relegate something so nurtured to being a…
Zucchini fritters #2
This is the best zucchini fritter recipe, very light and fluffy and actually called pancakes from the Moosewood Cookbook, another blast from the hippy past for those of us of a certain age.
Three feijoa recipes for easter
its a weekend of celebrations and our feijoa trees are heaving. I used 2.5 kilos of scooped out feijoas but didn’t even make a dent in today’s feijoa fall.
Pumpkin gnocchi
Soft and pillowy pumpkin gnocchi bathed in melting sage butter. What could be a better way to welcome in the autumn vibes?
food ripe from my garden 