Today is hot and sticky; the forecast is for 39C, and it feels like it. This pasta is light, quick and easy, and brilliant for a hot Labour Day holiday lunch.


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Really in the mood for a creamy broccoli pasta, I tried my hand at Susan's fettuccine no fredo with broccoli. I skipped the sauteed mushrooms, though.

Cauliflower Sauce:half a head of cauliflower ( Read more... )

As much as I love cooking, I can at times be a lazy chef. Although the shops are only a five minute walk down the road, I will go without an ingredient if I think I can get away with it. If a recipe calls for blending, I will work extra hard with my knives so I don't have to wash the extra dishes. So usually when I follow a recipe, the word ' ( Read more... )

One of the rules in our house is that I'm not allowed to buy new cookbooks until I've tried a certain percentage of the recipes in the previous book. I've been trying to get through Vegie Food, so I thought tonight that I'd give their pumpkin ravioli recipe a try. I thought it would be a bit lonely though, so I served a side dish of baked potato in ( Read more... )

This is for a vegan green curry.

ingredients:
1 cup of coriander leaves
2 tablespoons ginger
1 red onion/shallot
2 lime kaffir leaves
2 green chillis
2 teaspoons of cumin
1 medium sized can of coconut milk
1.5 cups of stock
Various vegetables.

method:Cut up the coriander leaves and the chillis (deseed if you require a mild curry), and mix ( Read more... )

This was another one of those times when I feared that The Woman's Weekly had failed me. However, after many attempts, and a few slight modifications to the recipe, I now believe that I can successfully make a mean white chocolate (mudcake) cupcake.

ingredients:125g butter (coarsely chopped ( Read more... )

I had a delicious penne at a terrible restaurant on Friday, and I attempted to recreate it this evening. What I produced was delicious, and I don't care if it's not exactly what I was hoping for, because it's very tasty.

roast pumpkin, mushroom and spinach penne in a lemon cream sauce

ingredientshalf a butternut pumpkin (diced small ( Read more... )

This recipe is delicious and easy!

ingredients:
half a cauliflower
one cup of peas
two large tomatoes (coarsely chopped)
one onion
two cloves garlic (crushed)
piece of fresh ginger, a few centimetres in length (finely grated)
one cup yoghurt
one cup cream
curry paste (I will detail at the end)

method:Precook the cauliflower in your preferred ( Read more... )

Tomato and Broccoli Risotto ( Read more... )

I had no idea how to cook a pumpkin curry. So I used this curry from New Curries a Australian Woman's Weekly book. It looks very interesting.

paste
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons ground ginger

ingredientsa handful of coriander leaves ( Read more... )