Category: Vegetarian
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Green Pesto
This recipe has evolved in various green stages. Initially it was just a parsley and garlic based pesto, then I added the spinach and lemon, the cottage cheese and soaked almonds came last. I’m not sure about the original rational behind cottage cheese and almonds but I do know it lends an ethereal lightness to…
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Rice Pudding
Rice pudding is a tetchy subject to bring up when discussing food with friends, opinions are stubborn and often extreme in nature. People either love rice pudding or they hate it, it needs to be made using ___ type of rice, cream versus milk, add-ins versus an unadorned pudding… the list is long and paved…
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Roasted Cauliflower and Cheddar Soup with Garlic Parmesan Croutons
2013 ended with busy upward momentum and just these first few days of 2014 have already featured a series of things to look forward to both in terms of freelance writing work and the fact that I’ll be going to Maui for a week with Ian for our honeymoon at the end of January which…
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Quick Green Pea and Asparagus Soup with Lemony Avocado and Arugula
This soup is quickly becoming a permanent fixture in my repertoire of dinners that can be prepared and put on the table in less than 20 minutes. The original idea for this recipe is based on a green pea soup with cheese that I found in a Nigella Lawson cookbook quite a long time ago…
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Crunchy Salad Rolls with Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce
Some people make soup when they want to clean out their crisper drawer, I make salad rolls. I want to stress that unless you make salad rolls regularly in great quantity (a friend referred to his time working as a caterer and confessed that salad rolls still give him nightmares) they are a little bit…