Most people love a roast dinner. Sometimes, though, it could do with a bit of jazzing up so that it’s not just the same old, same old. Here we’ve dressed some roasted pumpkin and corn with a delicious, healthy and versatile sunflower seed aioli, thinned to a drizzleable dressing ….
MORE SIMPLE SIDES
TUBULAR TASTES
Deliciously succulent pasta tubes filled with aubergine, ricotta, spinach, parmesan and smoked Fior di Latte, topped and bottomed with home made tomato sauce ….. salivating yet? This week’s recipe is a home-cook’s dream as it can be prepared well ahead of time and gently reheated to serve topped with fresh basil leaves. It can be made in very large quantities for parties and freezes well ....
PEASE PUDDINGS HOT
This update on the old Pease Pudding of Northern England is a very loose riff on the original. Instead of dried yellow split peas, soaked and boiled in the stock of a ham hock, this version takes bright green peas, aromatics and spices and turns them into beautifully light but very tasty semi-souffles ....
HOISIN SAUCE
Traditionally hoisin sauce is made with fermented wheat and soy beans. It is flavoured with five spice powder and is robust, sweet and garlicky. While gluten-free versions are available, we prefer to make our own and use black bean sauce as the base for our hoisin sauce. Once you have your gluten-free black bean sauce, home made or purchased, then making our Hoisin is a ten minute exercise ....
DEFINING SALAD
SAUTEED MUSHROOMS WITH RICE-CAKES AND SWEET SOY
I’m a big fan of Melbourne chef Andrew McConnell and I thought I’d like to recreate a dish I’d read about from his new restaurant, Supernormal. I can guarantee that the following would be nothing like his original, but when I made it for our gang of friends recently, we all loved it – happily ignorant, of course, of what we were really missing ....
GLORIOUS ONIONS
A VERY VEGO CHRISTMAS
The lead up to Christmas sees the lifestyle media go into over-drive with ideas for Christmas food. (A bit like we’ve done here at The Coeliac’s Revenge.) There are dozens of thoughts on ways to dress the ham and turkey, what seafood to buy and what pudding is best and so on. Yet we’ve observed that there is little on offer for the vegetarians amongst us, particularly amongst the gluten-free suggestions ....