Entries from September 2007

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Recipe: Singapore Noodles

This wonderful dish has been inspired by Singapore Noodles in Nigella Express. There have been quite a few changes from Nigella’s own recipe including making the dish vegetarian. Next time, I’d make this dish spicy with some fresh chillies and add more crunch with some peanuts or almond flakes.
Ingredients:

250 grams thin noodles, [...]

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Recipe: Parpadelle in red wine sauce

My parents have just come back from Italia and brought me back a few cookbooks and one special one from Italian. As soon as I saw this recipe, I had to try it (and manipulate it!). This recipe is quite rich, but delicious and simple!
Ingredients:

parpadelle for two serves, cooked
3 sanitarium vegie bacon rashers
1/2 [...]

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Recipe: Truffle Infused Mushroom Tagliatelle

My first experience with truffles was in Gubbio, Italy. I was out for dinner and went downstairs to the cellar of a restaurant and tried the “White Truffle Pasta” or “Tartufo di Bianco Tagliatelle.” The recipe itself may have lacked ingredients (as do most Italian recipes - simple yet always delicious!), but [...]

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

What’s On The Menu: Week starting 24/09/07

This week, I’ll be posting one of my all time favourite meals and a couple of new ones I’ll be trying for the week, after receiving a few new cookbooks. Of course, I change all recipes, but will advising where you can find the original recipe, if you don’t want my adaption.
The first one [...]

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Recipe: Vegie Chicken & Oyster Mushrooms with Rice Noodles

There’s a Vietnamese restaurant in Footscray that cooks pure vegetarian food. They have some real delicious meals such as wonton soup and rice noodles. Although this recipe is not the same, it’s got a nice flavour to it, similar to a chow mein feel for vegetarians. If you like a bit of [...]

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Recipe: Salt and Pepper Tofu

For a simple dish, this is packed with flavour! With only five ingredients, this dish recipe is very quick to make and delicious to have as a snack or as a full meal with rice!
Ingredients:

1 block firm tofu
salt
white pepper
2 tbs plain flour
2 tbs corn flour
olive oil for shallow frying

Instructions:

Drain tofu well before cutting into [...]

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Recipe: Banana and Prune Cake

I rarely make sweet recipes. It’s not that I can’t do it, but I find it messy and too much cleaning up afterwards. Lately though, I’ve come up with some easier ways to reduce the mess. I’m sure these aren’t new methods at all, but they certainly are new to me!
Some of [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

New Feature: Rate the recipe

If you were on the site, early this morning, you may have noticed a few weird things whilst I was testing out the new feature of the site.
You can now rate each recipe by post and there’s a sort by highest rating in the sidebar now also.  Please feel free to use these new features.
I’ll [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

What’s On The Menu: Week starting 17/09/07

Last week, I didn’t get the chance to make the Salt & Pepper Tofu but I’ll be making it this week! I have the ingredients in the fridge, so I’m ready to make it.
This week, I’ll be posting:

Banana and Date Cake
Salt & Pepper Tofu
Vegie Chicken & Oyster Mushrooms with Rice Noodles

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Friday, September 14th, 2007

Recipe: Tamarind Rice

This dish is an idea I had after having a little tamarind sauce the other day. I thought it would be great to try and make a rice dish out of it, which had some sweetness about it but had a little bite of heat and sourness also.
The fruit, tamarind is found as [...]