Image: Saffron mash served with a chickpea cutlet

The idea for this dish came when I was watching the latest Masterchef.  Although, I wasn’t able to grab their recipe, I decided to make my own and accompany it with my new version of the chickpea cutlet.
This mash is vegan using olive oil to smooth it down [...]

Image: Chickpea cutlet served with saffron mash.
After not straying too much with the four bean mix cutlet to the Veganomicon’s version, I had some ideas I really wanted to work on for this version. I have to admit, I wasn’t disappointed!
This chickpea cutlet has much more of a stringy or meaty substance to it [...]

Image: Rice pudding just come out of the oven

When I was younger, my mum made traditional milk rice and I wasn’t a big fan of it.  This also mean that I’d never really had rice pudding either because the thought of the milk rice came to mind.
It was only a few years ago when Le [...]

I’ve been on a bit of a cooking frenzy lately and have got heaps of wonderful recipes that I’m quite pleased with coming up. Some of them very simple to make and others that take a little more preparation. Watch out for some of these great recipes soon.
After having a few friends at [...]

I have to admit I love this dish.  It has everything you want for a meal - crispiness, spice, bite, freshness and flavour all in one.
The use of rocket, a clean extra virgin olive oil and ricotta tricks you into thinking it’s light and you can have it in Summer, but the chilli brings that [...]

I have to say the results of this current poll have left me curious and confused. I was sure that I put the vegetables in that most would unlike, however there were so many responses to “other” that I’m quite interested to work out what is the vegetable you dislike the most.
Will did click [...]

Sometimes I grab some mushrooms at the start of the week and really don’t have anything planned to make with them!  This week was that one time that I needed to use them before it was time to throw them out!
Rather than making a pasta dish, a soup came to mind.  Although, the idea of [...]

Image: Four bean mix cutlet in pan.
This delightful recipe is adapted from Veganomicon - if you hadn’t heard of this book, it’s very popular among vegans and worthy of vegetarians and meat-eaters alike taking a look. There’s a lot of great recipes in the book that break the boundaries of vegan foods being plain [...]

I do like the meat textures to go with my vegies or in a burger - who can resist? I’ve used the recipe from Veganomicon to make a four bean mix cutlet. I followed a similar recipe but changed the beans used and herbs. I guess as is, it’s not my cup [...]

Image: Tomato soup with some spicy chilli paste and a dollop of cream.
Need a warm-me-up for the footy or your local sporting event? This one tomato soup will definitely do the trick with a smack of chilli just to spice it up!
Any traditional tomato soup will do, but I think this one is made [...]