Basil Pesto
One of my favourite things in this world is pasta. And it is a good thing too because apparently a lot of restaurants think that if your vegetarian you must love pasta as that is usually the default vegetarian dish on the menu. I am not whining too much about it, I would just like another choice or two sometimes. But I…
Meatloaf
One night, the hubby and I were watching Better Homes and Gardens where Fast Ed was making meatloaf. The hubby was pretty impressed with it, maybe the fact it was wrapped in bacon had something to do with it, and I talked about making it for him. Well, a million years later it finally happened. The nights have started getting quite cool in…
Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Another man who is responsible for a lot of cooking in our house is Jamie Oliver. You may have heard of him, he is the chap from England who has a few cooking shows, some cook books (a copy of each of them resides on our bookshelf), a couple of restaurants and does some wonderful things through his foundation. In his Jamie's Great Britain…
Pea and Ham Soup
When I first started seeing the hubby, in winter he often made a stew full of pork and veggies. I never ate any obviously, but he really enjoyed it. However, as he had been making this for quite a few years he thought it was time for a change and decided to give pea and ham soup a go after seeing it on one of the numerous cooking shows we…
Pork Ribs with Blood Plum Sauce
The hubby grew up on a farm just out of town and on it was a lone blood plum tree. His Grandpa tried to get him to eat them when he was a youngin', and of course he protested because he had no idea what they were and kids are just fussy. But Grandpa wouldn't have a bar of it and shoved a blood plum in his mouth and told him to try it (not that…
Spiral Vegetable Tart
About a year ago I pinned one of the most awesome looking vegetable tarts I have ever seen to my Pinterest board Vegetarian and Vegan Delights . Rather than the veggies being laid flat in the tart base, the slices were arranged in a spiral perpendicular to the base and the result looked amazing. My version was not quite as amazing looking…
Vegetarian Lasagne
When my husband and I started dating, most Friday nights he would come and stay and we would head to the local pub for dinner. Being a small country town, there is generally only ever one vegetarian option on the menu (if you're lucky) and at this particular establishment it was vegetarian lasagne. It was tasty, but then we decided we should…
Vegetarian Samosas
On the way home from our honeymoon last year the husband and I spent a few days in Melbourne and one night we had dinner with his Aunt and Uncle. We got talking about cooking and Aunt T shared some cookbooks that she had gathered on her travels. One of these books was The Moosewood Cookbook which is an American vegetarian cookbook by Mollie…
Zucchini Slice
Although I have eaten Zucchini Slice many times, I have never actually made it which may be surprising given my vegetarianism. When a friend asked me to make it for a work lunch she was attending I didn't have a recipe at hand so I scoured the interweb for inspiration. This was also the perfect opportunity to use a large rectangular…