Is there anybody out there who doesn’t love pasta? Anyone? I’m pretty sure it’s a universal love story. Which is why a dish like this rigatoni pomodoro is such a fabulous weeknight pasta. It’s quick, it’s nourishing, it’s good. This recipe is from Andreas Papadakis’ new cookbook Tipo 00 The Pasta Cookbook. Now, this guy …
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I’ve been really getting into all the grains this year: think millet, quinoa, buckwheat and pearled barley. I think the barley is my favourite, so when I saw this recipe for baked pearled barley in Sophie Hansen’s new cookbook What Can I Bring? I jumped straight in. I introduced you to Sophie’s cookbook last week. …
My husband is mad for Middle Eastern food. It’s his #1 choice and falafels are right up there with his all-time ‘last meal’ choices. So how could I resist Alice Zaslavsky’s fried green falafels? I know he can’t! Do you know Alice – aka Alice in Frames? That bundle of irresistible energy and nous from …
I’ll get to the fish shawarma wraps in a mo. First I must say, Tom Walton’s book More Fish, More Veg is a bit like a placard, protesting to remind me what I’m meant to be eating. More fish – check. More veg – check. Thanks Tom. Really, you can’t go wrong with this bible …
It’s become cold in Sydney all of a sudden. Well, I guess it is almost June, but having had nothing of a summer, it’s confronting to be suddenly faced with winter. I wish, wish, wish the rain would stop and give us all a chance to dry out a bit. Winter isn’t exactly known for …
I made the moreish honey and granola bars from Taste Tibet this week and it reminded me that I have another recipe from the book to share with you. Sha balep are little Tibetan pastries that I think of as sharing the same eating space with foods like Mexican empanadas or Indian samosas or Aussie …