updated: This has just been awarded the weekly winner of the Golden Gnome award for “Best Main Course” on Make Me Hungry’s flickr group. View here.

If you happen to stop by my house, you’ll rarely find me watching normal TV. I’m forever watching the Food Channel on Foxtel, getting various ideas or just [...]

Over the last few days, I’ve been doing quite a bit of cooking and also viewing some delicious recipes being made at the Buddhist Vegetarian Cooking Class. We were shown how to make vegetarian wontons - my absolute favourite snack food when going to a couple of the vegetarian restaurants and also hot and [...]

(Image: Baked Pasta served with gourmet lettuce, tomato and danish fetta, with a parsley, salt, red wine vinegar and olive oil dressing.)
Flickr is great! What’s the big deal you may ask? I post all my recipe photos on there in groups and share links to my website, but it also helps give me [...]

This is more like a casserole than a soup, nice and chunky and great for those winter days like this morning down here in Melbourne.
It’s always great waking up to a nice and warm 2 degrees celsius and heading out to an iced up window on your car! It was that cold, it even [...]

I think I may have previously mentioned how I have a bit of an addiction for ginger at the moment. I needed a little fix tonight but didn’t want something overly sweet or fattening, so I came up with this sweet bread.
This would be great with some yoghurt or a dollop of cream.
Ingredients:

1 [...]

I made this a couple of weeks ago after wanting something quick but filling. I didn’t realise how tasty this actually would be, so much so that I had another craving for it today and made a HUGE batch to freeze for future feeds.
Ingredients:

3/4 diced red onion
pinch pepper
2 tsp garlic mince
4 sanitarium vegetarian [...]

This fried rice was adapted from the Vegetarian Buddhist Cooking Classes. My fried rice was really similar to this, but now I know the unique methods used without getting it too oily! I also made the Sweet and Sour Chicken to go with this.
If you want a sesame infused flavour, you can add [...]

This gorgeous recipe came from the Buddhist Vegetarian Cooking class as well as the Vegetarian Fried Rice. I’ve always wanted to know how the crunchiness of the tempura was done AND how they make this lovely sauce. You won’t believe how easy it is! The thing that takes the time is actually [...]

A slight tweak to the old tomato soup here with the use of caramelised fennel. Surprisingly, the flavour is not too overpowering but allows for a little variety in your ordinary soups.
This one was slow cooked to allow the flavours to intensify in the dish.
Ingredients:

1 medium fennel, sliced
2 tsp garlic
1 red onion, sliced
2 tbs [...]

Ever heard of a cheeseburger soup? Well I hadn’t until I found all these recipes on recipeazaar. I wanted something different and I have to admit it certainly is. Strangely though this is quite an exceptional dish and tastes just like the real thing - a cheeseburger!
I’ve had a few people turn [...]