Palov, salad and soup

Oh my goodness, I forgot to actually post the other Uzbek posts! So it’s a double-post day. The most famous Uzbek food is Palov. Similar to pilaf, plov and other rice dishes I’ve covered from all over the world, palov is made with rice, meat, vegies and seasonings. This one is the kind you cook…

Salad Days

I used the recipes in A Season in Moroccofor everything I made this time, so I wont post a recipe. If you like what you see, head to your library 🙂                  

More Pilaf, Cabbage and a Salad

Pilaf with home made stock I have now real and followed so many pilaf recipes, that I’m actually getting pretty good at making my own. Success seems to lie in the stock. In Australia, I usually just use easy-peasy Massel stock powder, but I can’t get anything approximating vegan stock here in Tbilisi, so I…

Turkish Feast in Tbilisi

The first meal of Turkish origin I tired was actually a week or so ago, when a friend came around for dinner. I decided to put on a bit of a feast (I have a lot of time at the moment), and served up a spread including chickpeas in tomato sauce, eggplant mezze, stuffed cabbage,…

Eggplant and mushrooms and walnuts, of course

Kamarjoba! (Yup, that’s the only word, other than bread, that I can say in Georgian). Last night’s dinner was intended to be all Georgian, all the way, however, of course, it didn’t quite turn out that way. I had intended to make my own version of the fabulous eggplant and cinnamon dish that I get…

Gnocchi, and the end of Italy week

I had forgotten all about making gnocchi, until I found this photo. I loosely followed the recipe from Vegan Yum Yum, ans served it up with tomato sauce (boy have we eaten a lot of that lately), and a big salad of lettuce, basil, mint and silverbeet from our garden, and some cucumber from a…

More Italian Stuff

There are a few Italian things I didn’t get around to making this time, partly due to a 10 hour, unconsummated hospital visit (everyone is fine) which will have to repeated sometime this week partly due to stupid drunk people who had accidents on Australia Day. This means that sadly I used up all the…

The Food of Romance

We don’t do Valentine’s day at our place, but we do celebrate our love! (too cheesy?) Every now and then I get a fit of vegan gourmet wrapped in a lovegush for Mr, and this usually turns into some heart shaped food. Last week I had an exceptionally large lovegush/fooddream collision, and the results were…

Cannelloni

Cannelloni is my favourite pasta dish. I adore it, and make it whenever I can. I used to love it filled with egg and cheese and covered in parmesan, but I think my vegan version stands up to the test. You can use bought pasta cannelloni “shells” if you like, but the recipe for the…

Pizza

I used to love Lebanese pizza, but it has been a long time since I’ve had any, given it is usually covered cheese. Lebanese pizza looks like other pizza, though the dough is covered in Zatar (a mix of oregano and spices) with only one or two other toppings added. I cheated, which is the…

Mezze 1

Babaganoyj (eggplant) Tomato salad chickpea dip with “beef” potato kibbeh The list above is what I had intended to make for our first mezze night. It didn’t work out exactly as I had hoped though. First to make the babaganoyj (spelling taken from the book I used, but there seem to be a few ways)….

Curry squash, Makubi, coconut rice

For the first night of cooking Tanzanian, I wanted to try a mixture of foods, as well as get some vegetables into us, after a few days of not-so-healthy eating. We tried curry squash (actually butternut pumpkin), makubi, which is greens with tomato and peanut butter, and some coconut brown rice. To make the makubi,…