Vegetables

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Potato and Rocket Soup

Sometimes in the kitchen, you just need to throw out any sort of plan and freestyle a bit. I never really make soup, but feeling soupy, a hit combination was found. This potato and rocket soup is a winner and it’s as easy as falling off a log. The potato […]

Titanic – 100 years on

In a little under an hour and half, it will be one hundred years since the Titanic sank to her dark depths. So, as it turns out, I have a keen fascination with the infamous disaster. It has apparently been building up over the years, and came out in full […]

Indian Saturday

I rarely eat Indian food. I like it, but somehow it just doesn’t make it into my regular rotation. I actually cannot remember the last time I ate Indian food, but having recently bought the book Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape, which has 100 of his favourite Indian recipes, it was […]

Gnocchi gnocchi, who’s there?

Last night, after salivating over a photo and recipe in the Good Living I was reading as I waited for my drama students to turn up, I tried my hand for the first time at gnocchi. Success! For some reason, even though I can rarely resist it when at a […]

Rainbow Chard and Mushroom Pie

Today, I discovered something full of charm and whimsy in the vegetable section of About Life in Rozelle… Rainbow Chard! What? Exactly. I had only ever known it as silverbeet, and only ever known it to be white and green. Wrong! It is also called chard and comes in rainbow […]

Stocked Up

Stock is always a great thing to have on tap, so if you are spending an evening at home in front of the tele, why not whip up some stock too?