Category: Vegetarian
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Roasted Red Pepper and Burrata Open Faced Sandwich
Burrata is often thought of as a warm weather cheese, something to be enjoyed alongside summer kissed tomatoes, fruity olive oil, and ribbons of deep green basil. In the colder months my favourite way to serve burrata, an Italian cheese so fresh it literally oozes cream, is alongside roasted sweet red peppers and garlic cloves.…
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Pumpkin Steel Cut Oats
If there’s anything I can do to make breakfast more appealing, I’ll do it. It was difficult to learn to love breakfast, I like sleeping late and eating breakfast always seemed like a waste of precious sleeping time. I had to bribe myself out of bed each morning by promising my future morning self a…
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Honey Roasted Carrots
I have always found carrots to be less than exciting. Maybe part of the indifference comes from the disparity between their spectacular colour and lacklustre flavour – even young, tender carrots leave me wanting. The other night at the grocery store I asked Ian what he’d like for dinner as a side for risotto balls…
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Batch Cooking: Bean and Brown Rice Burritos
When the sun begins to set earlier at what feels like alarming speed I start to feel as though I have fewer hours in my day. Of course this isn’t true but it’s hard to ignore the psychological effects of less daylight, so I try to do things that will make the time I do…
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Crunchy Golden Tofu Chopped Salad
I first put this salad together after a day at work spent craving a stir fry and a salad simultaneously. I adore tofu when it takes on a burnished golden colour and becomes satisfyingly crunchy when you bite into it; in this salad they take on a crouton-like role just by their very tactile nature…