Pecan Pie

Do you love pecan pie? Do you love it when people take foods that matter to you, and then try to make them without ever having read a recipe or even eaten the food? Then you’ll love this! I’ve always looked at pecan pie and drooled, but I’ve never actually had any. Mostly that’s a…

Birthday cake: vegan persian love cake

It was my birthday recently, and I went out to my favourite place, Moroccan Soup Bar. The birthday cake needed to be special and gluten-free. I considered mud cake, or coconut cake, and lemon cake, but in the end I settled on a heavily bastardised version of what I’ve seen called Persian Love Cake. As…

Veg Box 6/9/16

This week I didn’t technically order a veg box, but I did order some fruit and veg, and it did come in a box. Due to the plans I have this week, and the veg still in my fridge, I won’t need much. So we received: carrots cabbage rainbow chard apples pears oranges and bananas….

Carrot-curry noodle soup

I am aware that carrots are good for me, and I like them well-enough, but they;ve never been my favourite to cook with. I don’t know if it’s because I was ruined for all future carrotage as a child by my mum’s honey carrots, or if it’s because I like to make pretty food, and…

VegBox August 30 2016

I still have some vegetables left over from last week’s box, so I ordered a smaller box than usual. It also gave me a chance to try the new Asian Veg Box that CERES stared offering this week. In it I found: Ginger Chillies Pak Choi Bok Choy Brocollini Squash Lime Mushrooms Carrots Onions Snow…

Time for a change

Hi there! Things have been pretty dead around here lately, and I thought I should drop in and tell you why. Since going back to work full time I haven’t had nearly enough time to research all the fabulous recipes I’d like to, and I’m no longer the main cook or grocery-shopper in our little…

Versatile Blogger Award

So it seems that while I was away (from the blog) A Girl and Her Thumb nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award! Thanks Jo! I’m feeling particularly undeserving, given I haven’t been here for months and months, but I’ll play along 🙂 The rules of the award are that I must now divulge 7…

Rumbledethump!

  This is a very quick post, because it’s about a quick and simple dish: Rumbledethumps. With a name like that, I had to make it, and it’s really just lucky that it’s delicious as well. Really though, you can hardly go wrong with mashed potato, and adding alliums and cheese can only serve to…

Scotch broth and oat cakes

Time does tick on, huh? Lucky for me I’m home with an unstoppable cough today, so I can catch up on blog writing between coughing fits. The very first Scottish-ish meal I turned my hand to, in the distant past of about two and  half weeks ago, was Scotch broth accompanied by some oat cakes….

The last feast

It probably isn’t fair to use ‘first’ and ‘last’ when there are only two, but I started with it last week, so now I gotta finish it. The second/last dinner with an Iranian bent at my place consisted of a polow (rice dish), an attempt at vegan kebab, and some salads. I used the recipes…

Beakfast, lunch and sweets

Try as I may, I’ve never been able to knock out a great loaf of bread. Sometimes I might accidentally turn out an OKish flatbread or a decent pan-fried roti but that’s as close I get to fluffy, tall, slice-able thing. So when I read that in Iran bread is king, and is chowed-down upon…

The first feast

The first Iranian things I tried making were from the dinner selection. The menu went as follows: bread herb salad pickles kashk-e badenjan chelow khoresht – sour tofu and herbs I read in Saraban that Iranian meals usually begin with flat bread and a basket of herbs and cheese. These are then followed by pickles,…