Bountiful carrots and radishes out of the garden at the moment, which is very nice because it’s coming up to rice paper roll season, and if you have some lightly pickled carrots and radishes, an avocado and rice paper roll wrappers, you have all the ingredients for a real work or school lunch box treat. The recipe is dead simple – some julienned carrots and radishes (and you can add…
This recipe fills two dozen wonton wrappers – what we get in a packet of wrappers from the supermarket. Using bought ones makes the recipe really really fast and easy, but making your own isn’t hard especially if you use a pasta machine, so I’ll include the wrapper recipe too.
Today is just the second day in the last two months that it hasn’t rained, a gorgeous sky blue day but my garden is still…
My all time, very favourite, can’t be beaten dinner is a plate of roast root vegetables. On their own. Little crispy caramelised bits on the edges and each individual vegetable a star in its own right. With home grown, very fresh vegetables it’s amazing. But even with bought vegetables it’s pretty good.
I’m not a huge fan of tofu because soy beans contain a number of compounds that can cause health problems, it takes a fair amount of processing to get tofu from soy beans, and they are one of the most genetically modified and unsustainably farmed crops on the planet. Nutrisoy and Soyco are a couple of brands that don’t use genetically modified soy beans.
If I can keep the routine going, I can harvest a dozen or so carrots pretty well most weeks of the year.
This is one of my all time favourite meals, deceptively simple: Roast Vegetables as Themselves. It’s simple, fast, cheap, and if you use fresh vegetables in season, amazingly good.