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Public holiday salad
Salad of mackerel, white beans, capers, watercress, etc. This is to remind me that we found good tinned mackerel fillets at Pennisi in Woolloongabba, and I should go back and buy more.
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Tonight’s dinner was the delightful product of serendipity and greed. I was feeling restless when I woke up this morning, so headed out for a jaunt on the bike, planning to follow the river around New...
View ArticleKipfler and green vegetable salad with yoghurt and mustard dressing
I normally eat potatoes about five or six times a year – they don’t fit in with the kind of food I cook, and I’m never really sure what to do with them. But three times this year I’ve found myself...
View ArticleSunday lunch of three salads
It’s summer officially, but not quite really. We’ve had some hot days, but they’re rare interruptions in the temperate progression of 20-degree days (and 12 degree nights). But when the sun is out, as...
View ArticleRed quinoa, cauliflower, green garlic and feta salad
We’ve made this salad twice in one week – it is that good! A delicious combination of flavours and textures, it also uses the produce available at this change of seasons: cauliflower from the end of...
View ArticleCouscous, chard, feta and pomegranate seed salad
I’m going on holiday tomorrow (yesssssssssssssss), and still need to pack, so this is a quick one. We have been rocking the salads recently. Love spring, love the greens my garden is producing; love...
View ArticleSecrets of the salad, for Luciano and Eliane
This post has been sitting in my drafts folder for well over a year. (Can that really be right? Yes, it is, horrifyingly.) I started writing it when Luciano and Eliane were leaving Brisbane to go back...
View ArticleAfter work dinner: roast vegetable frittata and salad
Helen and Heather came over straight from work for dinner tonight, and we had a lovely time cooking, eating and chatting. I went a little crazy with the vegetable-buying at the St Kilda markets on...
View ArticleExcellent things from the last few weeks
I’ve been running a bit ragged recently, so it’s a perfect time to have a pot of tea, take stock, and list a bunch of good things. 1. I recently learned to add a star anise when making a long-cooked...
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A warm salad of smoked mackerel, paprika-roasted cauliflower and red rice
Looking at this salad now, I feel like one or other of the ingredients should be dropped – maybe the rice, or if not that then the currants. But despite being a bit of a mish-mash, it tasted delicious....
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