April 2011
2 posts
More delights from NYC
I hope you all had a very happy Easter. Hopefully there was plenty of relaxing and feasting and time spent with the ones you love. I attended an awesome Easter Feaster on Saturday with friends where the cheese was plenty, as was the vegan treats (best guacamole EVER). I am now spending time in my home town where Mum is of course pleasing us all with her amazing ability to turn out a veritable and...
The Organic Grill
My goodness, it has been an age. An age in which a lot has happened! I have returned from my life changing trip to New York and am slowly getting back into the swing of a much changed life in Australia. Unlike I had promised, I obviously didn’t manage to keep this thing kicking while I was in New York. I did, however, manage to eat copious amounts of delicious food! It would be ridiculous to...
October 2010
2 posts
Japanese food and other things
Well life surely is fully hectic at the moment! As most of my readers probably already know, I’ve been accepted to do a four month internship at the Australian Consulate-General in Neeeeeew Yoooorrrrrk (concrete jungle where dreams are made of). I found out last Friday and I am set to start on October 28! Talk about a mad rush!!! I’m flying out with my dear papa bear on Tuesday 26th...
Taco Time
Evening!
It appears that I’ve become rather slack at this blogging thing. Each time I cook something I think to myself, ‘I should blog this’, but then I either can’t be bothered or my camera battery is dead. So tonight as I set out to try a new taco recipe I was determined to blog it. I put the camera on the charger and got cooking.
I found the recipe on the Old El Paso...
September 2010
3 posts
Eating on the Move.
Howdy doody all. Again, another absence. My apologies! I have been on the move a bit lately between work and a stint of work experience in Sydney. As it turned out, I interned for three days with the Weight Watchers magazine. I hadn’t specifically chosen that mag, but contacted Pacific Magazines in general to see about work experience and that’s where I ended up. It was really...
Simply Delightful
Hello friends!
How are you all? Sorry about the lengthy period of time between this post and the last!
I haven’t got any recipes for you today, but I thought I would share some food finds and pics anyway.
Thanks to my lovely friend Katee, I’ve been introduced to this here amazing website: Food Gawker! By clicking on that link, you will be taken to a magical land of mouth watering...
If at first you don't succeed...
Well, last night I had a teeny cooking failure. Nothing too disastrous, just a bit of a flop on the presentation side of things.
I decided to make these Carrot, Zucchini, Chickpea and Halloumi burgers. I found the recipe via Photo-grazing on the Serious Eats website (I searched vegetarian), which allows you to peruse and drool over tonnes of food pics. If you see something you like then you can...
August 2010
5 posts
Hello my friends!
Hoping you have all had a fantastic week. I have been busy as a beaver selling many teapots! My work is holding its annual teapot festival. We have literally thousands of teapots for sale! It’s nuts. As you can imagine I am thoroughly enjoying myself being surrounded by all things tea. I even rewarded myself with a red riding hood tea for one set. It is the cutest ever!...
Inspirational Foodies - Marieke Hardy
When it comes to Marieke Hardy I tend to get a little excited. I was fortunate enough to meet her at the beginning of the year which was a very exciting experience. I think she is a wonderful human being and I very much enjoyed reading this interview with her about veganism. When I met her we chatted about vegetarianism/veganism. Maybe one day we can eat dinner together!
Click here to read the...
Mixed Nut Moroccan Rice
Hello folks! I come bearing a delicious recipe for Mixed Nut Moroccan Rice. Thanks to my mother bear for recommending this recipe. This one is a winner.
The recipe calls for a tablespoon of ‘moroccon seasoning’ blend which can be made easily. The following quantities make more than enough to have on hand for future makings of the rice!
Moroccan Seasoning:
5 tsp nutmeg
5 tsp...
Taste
Isn’t taste a strange thing? Each of us have our loves and hates when it comes to food and they differ greatly from person to person. It seems that it can often be quite a mental thing, too.
For instance, I absolutely loathe bananas. Yet, the last time I probably tasted one was at least 15 years ago. I think I am almost bananaphobic. You won’t catch me eating (let alone touching) one...
July 2010
10 posts
Tempeh Spag Bol
I-make-a-the-spaghetti, mamma-mia!
Photo courtesy of my brother SAM! About seventy hundred times more awesome than the pics I normally take on my little digi. Perhaps I will employ Sam to be my official blog photographer! I can pay him in food. Oh how I badly want a good camera, but this is not the place for expressing my desires for new possessions. This IS the place for sharing with you my...
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What's in my trolley?
I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit of a sticky beak when it comes to looking at what’s in other people’s trolley or baskets at the supermarket. I think the food people buy gives a pretty good insight into their lives.
Here’s what was in mine this morning ($70 worth, it really doesn’t look like that much!):
Thin Hokkien noodles
Light milk
Vita Brits
...
Ramblings and Eats
Greetings pals,
With all the spare time I have at the moment I decided I needed a good book to read. After hearing about it on the Bonne Sante blog, I decided I really just HAD to read Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Eating Animals’. I am so glad I did! See, it’s almost my two year vegetarian anniversary (in August some time) and for a while now I’ve sort of cruised a long...
Nacho nacho man, I wanna be a nacho man
Here is my own recipe for nachos. I came up with it tonight and it will probably change next time I make it, but here’s the gist of it. The mixture could probably serve two people, but if you like lots of toppings like me then it’s more of a one person serve with some left over.
Grab yourself some of this:
1 packet of Macro organic corn chips (from Woolworths and much healthier...
No one can be unhappy when there's pink cupcakes...
Today is my new house mate’s birthday! I decided to bake her some cup cakes while she was at work. She’s not home yet, but hopefully she’ll get here soon! I’ve put them in my totally awesome two-tiered cupcake container (from Woolies) with a nice bow and a card. I like making things for people.
Nothing screams vegetarian more than a Lentil &...
It doesn’t get any more vegetarian than this. Here is a very easy recipe for a very healthy lentil salad. What you will need (serves one, with a bit left over, or one very hungry person):
1 1/2 cups of dry red lentils
1 1/2 cups of water
1 1/2 teaspoons of Vegeta vegetable stock powder (Alternatively, substitute the water and stock powder for 1 1/2 cups of vegetable...
Breakfast
Breakfast is great. Do you agree? I eat breakfast every day, no matter how late I wake up. Like today, I emerged from bed at midday (shameful I know, but hey, I’m sick) but I still made sure I had my avocado on toast. Subsequently, I didn’t eat lunch until 3pm and still haven’t had dinner. It’s almost 9pm. Now I would like to make a list of my favourite things to eat for...
Cute Kitchens
All taken from http://www.weheartit.com
These kitchens are all so lovely. I feel inspired to try and make our kitchen more colourful!
Home made delicious Chai syrup
My tummy is so warm and happy at the moment as I have just had a mug of home made chai! I made the syrup from this cute recipe/drawing by Lucy Knisley.
If you have terrible eye sight, like myself, the following might help:
Ingredients:
3 cups of water
3 black tea bags
1 tsp of ground cinnamon
A sprinkle of ground cloves
1/2 a teaspoon of ground ginger
1 bay leave
Honey to...
June 2010
5 posts
Slow Cooked Indian Vegetable Curry
This is a winter winner! While I was home last week, I cooked this one up for the family. I prepared it at lunch time and let it cook in Mum’s ancient crock pot until dinner time. I wish I had taken a photo of the crock pot. It’s a lovely burnt orange colour! She has had it for years and it still works like a dream.
Ingredients:
1 tbs veggie oil
1 medium leek sliced thickly
2 cloves...
Chickpea and Herb Falafel
These little falafel patties are so flavoursome! Falafel always reminds me of the episode of Skins where Chris and Jal make a deal where Jal has to say yes to everything. Chris proceeds to ask her ‘Jal, will you buy me a falafel?’ :)
Ingredients:
1 tbs cumin seeds (the packet ground stuff is fine)
1 tbs coriander seeds (same goes here, packet stuff is fine)
2 cans chickpeas (400gms...
Mum's Caramelised Onion, Tomato and Feta Tart
Recipe time! I’m living it up back at home with my family at the moment and thoroughly enjoying the luxury of a full fridge and cupboard, not to mention the wonderful company! After my trip overseas where fresh veggies were scarce, I’m taking full advantage of the amount on offer here and loading up each meal with heaps of colour and texture. Last night we had caramelised onion, tomato...
The best meal I ate in Japan
Greetings! I have returned from a wonderful, exciting ten days in Japan! While I did struggle finding wholesome veggie food, I did manage to eat some awesome things. We really are so lucky here in Australia with the quality and quantity of fresh fruit and vegetables we have available to us. I feel that Japan would have to be one of the hardest places to be a vegetarian (although this is a...
A Cute Conversation with my Dad
(via Facebook chat)
Dad: We have been drinking green tea
Me: Oh really?! I have run out. Do you like it?
Dad: Yes
Me: Do you have it plain?
Dad: Yes
Me: Very good!
Dad: Sometimes we just have a cup of hot water.
Me: Wowee, I’ve never done that.
Dad: It’s easy
Me: Lol, I suppose it is!
Dad: I’ve perfected it
Me: You’re a clever boy
Dad: I know. Did you watch...
May 2010
7 posts
Keen-wa
Here’s a scrummy salad I made last week using Quinoa (pronounced ‘keen-wa’, although for a long time I thought it was something like kwin-oa and occasionally still pronounce it like that just because I think it’s hilarious). Just like my last salad, I found the recipe here on the Women’s Health Mag site.
You cook the quinoa in lime juice and curry powder which gives...
Kidney Bean Salad
Okay, so I’ve mentioned my unrelenting love for Mexican food, so here’s a tasty Mexican themed salad I ate for dinner last night.
The recipe comes from the Women’s Health Magazine website and can be found here.
I was a lazy chef and decided to use canned corn kernels instead of corn off the cob as the recipe states. I also didn’t roast the kernels in a pan like it...
Guacamole Rock 'n' Rolly
Mexican food would have to be my absolute favourite. I actually have a very fond memory of the first time I ate nachos. It was at Miranda Fair shopping centre in Sydney with my Uncle Brian, Dad’s older brother. My brother, sister and I were staying with Uncle Brian and Aunty Deidre for a week or so in our school holidays. We flew there from Tamworth (the flight takes approximately 50...
“My nutmeat brings all the boys to the yard, and they’re like ‘what...”
– Marieke Hardy
Everything looks better in Polaroid
My current favourite breakfast/lunch/any time kind of snack - multigrain English muffin with avocado, tomato and cracked pepper.
A recent stir fry with black bean sauce.
The cutest and tastiest cookies and cream cup cake ever from Little Cupcakes on Degraves in Melbourne.
A lunch from some time recently - strawberries, a wrap with veggie schnitzel and salad, a cup of Turkish Apple tea...
Inspiration
I was inspired to start this blog by a number of food and health blogs on the webs. Bonne Sante is written by a lovely young lady who lives in Sydney, but I believe originally comes from my current stomping ground, Newcastle. A fellow veggie (although much closer to being vegan than I), she is absolutely chockas with knowledge about food health. I find her posts to be so interesting and eye...
Soup to cure a cold
After a big, awesome weekend, I am struggling with a yucky cold. I think I have come to terms with the fact that every time Ben gets sick, I get sick too. So today I decided to cook up a yummy soup to try and fight it off!
At Woolies the other day we picked up a ‘soup pack’ of veggies which included a brown onion, two carrots, two potatoes, two parsnips and a suede (at least I think...
April 2010
6 posts
Product of the week - Sanitarium Veggie Delights...
I know a lot of vegos and vegans aren’t into the ‘fake meats’ out there, but I quite like them. In the past, people have said ‘If you’re a vegetarian then why do you eat something that tastes like meat?’ and I say ‘Cause I DO like the TASTE of meat, I just don’t like the fact that it used to be a living, breathing animal’.
As far as veggie...
Creativi-tea
I like tea. A lot. I firmly believe, as succinctly put by a recent Facebook group I joined, “People who don’t drink tea are missing out on life.”
For your viewing pleasure I have emptied out the tea contents of my pantry (one day I will own a lovely cabinet, just for tea).
1. English Breakfast bags. A staple.
2. T2 loose leaf English Breakfast. Newcastle, you need a T2.
3....
Breakfast date
This morning, after a lovely sleep-in, Ben and I decided to go out for breakfast. We headed to Three Monkeys cafe on Darby St at about 11.30am. I definitely love me an all day breakfast! I usually order the Vegie Monkey - a big vegetarian breakfast - but this time I had the ‘Bubble and Squeak’. Instead of the traditional potatoes and bacon combo mine came with garlic mushrooms,...
Picnicing
This long weekend I was happy to have my lovely Mum, Dad and sister come to stay a night. Today we enjoyed a picnic by the Newcastle Foreshore. Mum, as always, provided us with some amazing picnic food.
Here’s what we ate:
1. Felafel patties. These are delicious homemade felafel patties. They aren’t like your traditional felafel which can be quite dry but are still basically made up...
Greetings earthlings.
Hello there!
If for some reason you don’t already know who I am, let me introduce myself. My name is Hannah and I am a 22 year old almost-graduate. I am studying a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) at the University of Newcastle. I live here in Newcastle with three awesome roomies - my older brother Sam, the sweetest Chinese girl ever, Shirley, and our newest occupant, my lovely...