Want to make a vegetarian dish with an eye-catching presentation? This is the one! My past attempts at making quinoa tasted kind of bitter, leaving me indifferent to the high-in-protein grain that I keep hearing about. This time I followed instructions and rinsed the quinoa. Was that an important step? I'll be doing that from now on since it tasted ( Read more... )

I made these with extra pastry from yesterday's Cinder Banoffee Pie. It only had a little bit of sugar in it so I figured it would be fine for something savoury, and I thought the mixed spice would go well with something Middle Eastern. I've also just discovered harissa paste and smoked paprika, both of which are ambrosically delicious, and would ( Read more... )

(reposting to vegrecipes because this recipe got surprisingly little response in my own journal ( Read more... )

This is an awesome soup I threw together this weekend, when I was craving something warm and comforting.  The mushrooms and the bouillon make for a deeper flavour, and the squash adds a nice bit of sweetness.  After the first day, it thickened up quite a bit ( Read more... )

Even though I am a vegetarian I will watch some of the shows on The Food Network, and sometimes I get lucky and they show recipes for vegetarian things I'd like to try.  The problem is, they rarely have the specific recipes that I am looking for if they are vegetarian ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of pureed butternut squash - we're making soup with some of it, any idea for what we can do with the rest of it?

Since moving back to uni this year I've decided to try and have a much healthier diet than I did last year (when I could eat pasta and pesto for three meals in a row very easily). So using some of the vegetables I had left in the cupboard/fridge yesterday, I made this (my recipe since I made it up as I went along :P):

Ingredients:

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I'm always looking for more ways to add vegetables to our diet. Here's an easy dish to cook up several helpings of veggies at once.



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So, the summer is finally drawing to a close. The nights here are already tinted with the crispy, chilling feeling of October, requiring people to dig up forgotten sweaters and long sleeved shirt. As a farewell to warmer months, I cleaned the last of this summer's vegetables out of the fridge and put them all into a simple, delicious dish.


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