textured soups as well as the unproblematic pleasance of simply the correct slice of fresh staff of life on the side of the smoother varieties. It's the latter variety that's going to possess got over our weeknights, I mean value - minimal chopping, one-half an hr of bubbling on the stove, a quick whizz inward the nutrient processor as well as a relatively slowly as well as nutritious repast is born. This is i such example, which Michael picked upward from this website during Mon inward a bid to purpose upward a sad-looking leftover sugariness white patato inward the fridge.
Senin, 14 Desember 2020
March 26, 2007: Sweetness Murphy Soup
It's simply every bit good I'm warming to soups because there's a wisdom molar removal on my horizon!
Sweet white patato soup
a generous milkshake of vegetable oil
1 leek, chopping quite finely
3 cloves garlic, crushed
3 modest sugariness potatoes, diced
2 Massel chicken-style stock cubes, dissolved inward 1L of hot water
1/2 loving cup milk
1/3 loving cup fresh coriander, chopped finely
Heat the stone oil inward a saucepan, add together the leek as well as garlic as well as tiddler until softened. Add the sugariness white patato as well as cook, stirring occasionally, for v to a greater extent than minutes.
Add the "chicken" stock as well as select to the boil. Reduce rut as well as simmer for almost twenty minutes until the sugariness white patato has softened.
Blend the soup inward batches. Stir inward the milk as well as coriander as well as serve.
Minggu, 13 Desember 2020
March 28, 2007: Ume Nomiya
once or twice my vegetarian reservations nigh the average Japanese eating topographic point menu, together with and so I didn't answer alongside much enthusiasm... until I tasted Umi Nomiya's shiitake mushroom balls at the Flour Festival concluding weekend. They were an incredibly tasty alter from the tempura veges I ever rely on when everyone else is gobbling downward sashimi. Michael revealed that this was the eating topographic point on his wishlist together with I was forthwith much to a greater extent than amenable to a see - together with so amenable that I made a moisture umbrella-less walk to come across Michael in that location less than a calendar week later, equally the early on dinner halt on a black out.
Ume is actually to a greater extent than bar than eating topographic point - high stools along the bar, which offers a dozen kinds of sake, in all likelihood render a 3rd of the seating. It's small, dimly lit together with sparsely but elegantly furnished inward an urban-Oriental style. At half-dozen o'clock on a Midweek in that location were few punters, together with the daughter behind the bar provided us alongside casual but really helpful tabular array service. The carte is divided into sushi plates (all fishy: pass), bar snacks (two thirds vegetarian), together with mains (1 out of half-dozen is vego). The vegetarian items are clearly marked together with exclude fish, which makes skimming the options much simpler for V-kids similar us! We picked out 3 of the bar snacks to part together with settled inward alongside a beer each.
flour festival post. This turned upward several hours AFTER I wrote this review together with so nosotros didn't score the costless drink, nor has it influenced the content!
Edit (6/5/2008): Unfortunately Ume Nomiya appears to direct maintain shut (replaced alongside a really hip looking Castilian place. We're non certain whether the catering arm of the draw organization remains active.
Edit (26/10/2008): ... together with forthwith we've visited the Castilian eating topographic point inward its place, Anada. You tin read our review of it here.
Address: 197 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Ph: 9415 6101
Licensed
Price: vege bar snacks $5-10, vege primary $14
Website: www.umebar.com
Jumat, 11 Desember 2020
March 29, 2007: Gertrude Street Grub - Radio Bar & Cafe
Wednesday night is that lack of leftovers for Th lunch. Still, it's the excuse I postulate to run downward about other Gertrude Street luncheon review. Today's lucky venue was Radio, a cosy bar almost straight across from work. I've non been at that topographic point for an eve out, but the Kirin on tap together with the erstwhile soul, reggae or funk tunes that are ever spinning on the tape histrion brand me intend it would hold upwardly a prissy identify for about post-work drinks.
During the hateful solar daytime they produce a fleck of nutrient together with about really prissy Brazilian coffee. The nutrient card is pretty limited: cereal, muesli or toasties for breakfast together with a selection of virtually v baguettes for lunch. The $6 baguettes all come upwardly amongst rocket, tomato, avocado, swiss cheese, a divine homemade mayonaise together with your selection of 'meat'. The solely vegetarian alternative is grilled eggplant, but it works pretty good amongst the residuum of the fillings, together with then I was fairly content. The baguettes are fresh together with crunchy together with all the fillings are great, but it's actually all virtually the mayo - it could brand whatever sandwich a winner.
Update: Things convey changed a niggling at Radio since this review. They've added a selection of outstanding pizzas to the luncheon menu, a daily soup exceptional together with they've broadened out the brekkie options. Everything's a niggling to a greater extent than expensive, but it's all the same my favourite luncheon identify upwardly my destination of Gertrude.
Address: 79 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9417 4723
Licensed
Price: Baguettes $6, Breakfast $3-$6
During the hateful solar daytime they produce a fleck of nutrient together with about really prissy Brazilian coffee. The nutrient card is pretty limited: cereal, muesli or toasties for breakfast together with a selection of virtually v baguettes for lunch. The $6 baguettes all come upwardly amongst rocket, tomato, avocado, swiss cheese, a divine homemade mayonaise together with your selection of 'meat'. The solely vegetarian alternative is grilled eggplant, but it works pretty good amongst the residuum of the fillings, together with then I was fairly content. The baguettes are fresh together with crunchy together with all the fillings are great, but it's actually all virtually the mayo - it could brand whatever sandwich a winner.Update: Things convey changed a niggling at Radio since this review. They've added a selection of outstanding pizzas to the luncheon menu, a daily soup exceptional together with they've broadened out the brekkie options. Everything's a niggling to a greater extent than expensive, but it's all the same my favourite luncheon identify upwardly my destination of Gertrude.
Address: 79 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9417 4723
Licensed
Price: Baguettes $6, Breakfast $3-$6
Kamis, 10 Desember 2020
March 29, 2007: Tandoori Veges Amongst Lemon Rice
Tandoori Times, I've been re-inspired past times the marinade that is thence oftentimes entirely seen on chicken. Michael noticed a pouch of tandoori spices at Spice Bazaar last weekend too straight off I had to ain it, I had to stimulate my ain paw at tandoori veges! After looking at i or 2 recipes on the internet, it was Michael who adlibbed his ain marinade too it turned out rattling well. The resulting veges didn't closely resemble their TT inspiration, but a lack of petroleum too mistaken colouring tin entirely live a skilful thing. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hot oven doesn't give equally much charring equally I like, but nosotros did pack the veges inward pretty tightly together. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 barbeque would in all likelihood live an effective option cooking method.
What I especially enjoyed almost the Tandoori Times cauliflower was the distinct lemon tang, too this was what had me chasing upwards a lemon rice recipe equally an accompaniment. It's some other jewel from Mridular Baljekar's Low-Fat Indian Vegetarian Cookbook - the mustard seeds too cashews are a existent treat, too the luminous colouring comes non from scary mistaken lemon, but from dry soil turmeric.
Tandoori veges
Ingredients:
Lots of peeled too diced veges: nosotros used v medium potatoes, a huge carrot, a caput of cauliflower, 2 cerise capsicums too 8-10 large white mushrooms
For the marinade:
1 1/2 cups yoghurt
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon tandoori spice mix (a quick mesh search volition give you lot an stance of what dry soil spices to combine if you lot don't convey a pre-mixed combination similar ours)
juice of i lemon
1/3 loving cup water
Whisk together the marinade ingredients too a bowl. Arrange the veges inward a duet of baking dishes too pour the marinade over. Gently stir the veges or thence so that they're evenly coated inward the yoghurt mix. Let the trays sit down for one-half an sixty minutes thence that the flavours develop, thence bake at 200 degrees for almost one-half an hour. Stir the veges occasionally to recoat amongst the settled marinade.
Lemon rice
Ingredients:
1 loving cup basmati rice
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon dark mustard seeds
a handful of cashews, roughly chopped
1/4 teaspoon dry soil turmeric
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Wash the rice inward mutual depression temperature H2O too exit it to soak for 15-20 minutes. Drain.
Heat the petroleum inward a saucepan too thence add together the mustard seeds too cashews. Let them sizzle for no to a greater extent than one-half a minute, thence take away the cashews (it doesn't affair if some of the mustard seeds come upwards out too).
Add the rice, turmeric too common salt to the saucepan too stir-fry for 2-3 minutes. Pour inward 2 cups of hot H2O too the lemon juice. Bring the rice to the boil too run along to boil for 2 minutes.
Cover the saucepan, trim the estrus to depression too produce for 10 minutes. Remove from estrus too permit the rice represent 6-7 minutes. Only at nowadays should fluff upwards the rice amongst a fork.
Serve the rice, garnished amongst the cashews.
Selasa, 08 Desember 2020
April 1, 2007: Easter Buns
her recipe for hot cross buns together with strongly encouraged her readers to endeavour making their own. Never having tried it myself, together with amongst a spare Lord's Day forenoon on hand, I decided to accept the challenge. As Melinda notes, baking amongst yeast oft puts people off: I inherited this mental attitude from my mum, who presented my teenage self amongst a decades-old box of dry out yeast sachets when I commencement raised an interest. I raised no farther questions nearly home-baked yeasty delights until a few years ago, when I finally got sick of inferior purchased pizza bases together with resolved to brand my own. My revised theory on yeast is that anyone who tin sack carefully follow a recipe together with spare or hence fourth dimension for the dough to ascent is capable of making or hence pretty skillful breadstuff products - superior to anything you'll purchase from a supermarket bakery. Beyond that it may accept or hence research, experimentation together with experience to make or hence genuinely sublime eating. I'm far from reaching that point! By the fourth dimension 1 batch of dough is inwards my stomach, I'm non at all interested inwards trying a refined recipe whatsoever fourth dimension soon.
Thankfully, this recipe proved gratifying from the really commencement mouthful. I couldn't resist breaking off 1 still-warm bun together with smearing it amongst soon-melting butter. Carbolicious bliss! As y'all tin sack in all probability see, my crosses are a chip wonky. I remember my glue could receive got been a chip to a greater extent than watery together with flexible, but ultimately I involve to piece of employment on my icing skills! Maybe amongst a chip of practise together with a hundred to a greater extent than posts, I'll live able to grade the occasion to a greater extent than attractively...
... because this is our 200th post! (We got at that topographic point inwards 225 days, which agency we're getting faster.)
I'm reproducing the method I used here, because I made a couplet of substitutions. I similar peel, not sultanas, together with my spice province of affairs was looking a chip different. But this is essentially Melinda's recipe.
Easter Buns
Ingredients:
Dough:
2 x 7g packets of dried yeast, amongst a youngster tumble that agency y'all travel 12g every bit directed past times Melinda
1/2 loving cup castor sugar
1 1/2 cups lukewarm milk
4 1/2 cups patently flour, sifted
1 teaspoon each of set down cinnamon, allspice together with ginger
1 generous milk shiver each of set down cloves, star anise together with nutmeg
50g butter, melted
1 egg
2 cups mixed citrus peel, finely chopped
Paste:
1/2 loving cup patently flour
1/3 loving cup H2O (I'll endeavour using a chip to a greater extent than side past times side time)
Glaze:
(This was a lot to a greater extent than glaze than I needed, hence y'all could larn downwards to 1/8 loving cup each)
1/4 loving cup castor sugar
1/4 loving cup water
shakes of set down cloves, star anise together with nutmeg
Place the yeast, ii teaspoons of the saccharide together with all of the milk inwards a bowl. Set it aside for 5-10 minutes, until the mixture foams.
Gently mix inwards the flour, spices, butter, egg, tegument together with remaining saccharide until y'all receive got a mucilaginous dough. Get it onto a lightly floured surface together with knead for 8-10 minutes or until it feels elastic (I definitely needed to knead inwards a chip to a greater extent than flour at this stage, because the dough was really sticky). Place the dough ball inwards an oiled bowl, roofing it amongst a tea towel, together with stand upwardly it inwards a warm identify for an lx minutes or until it has doubled inwards size.
Divide the dough into 12 pieces together with curl them into balls. Grease together with draw of piece of employment a 23cm foursquare cake tin or baking dish amongst non-stick baking newspaper together with identify the dough balls into the tin. Cover the tray amongst a tea towel together with ready it aside for thirty minutes, or until the buns receive got risen.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Combine the flour together with H2O for the glue together with identify inwards a piping handbag (or a plastic handbag amongst the corner snipped off) together with pipage crosses on the buns. Bake for 25-35 minutes, or until good browned together with springy to touch. Remove from oven together with brush on the warm glaze piece the buns are notwithstanding hot.
To brand the glaze, combine all ingredients inwards a minor saucepan. Stir over a medium oestrus until the saccharide dissolves, convey to the boil together with and hence simmer for ii minutes.
Senin, 07 Desember 2020
April 1, 2007: Beetroot Together With Carrot Soup
another soup. I mean value every bit wintertime comes on, we'll survive souping it upwardly to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than often. Luckily, Cindy's been keeping upwardly alongside dozens of unlike nutrient blogs in addition to taking depository fiscal establishment annotation of unopen to of the especially delicious looking recipes she stumbles across. This week's winner was the tremendously pink-looking creation on Eat Me: beetroot in addition to carrot soup.
I made a few changes, through both laziness in addition to a lack of ingredients (we likewise decided to cutting dorsum on the quantities), but it nonetheless turned out pretty well. It was slightly starchy, then I mightiness readjust the vegie proportions adjacent fourth dimension - mayhap an extra beetroot in addition to i or 2 less potatoes, but otherwise it actually hitting the spot. I'm actually getting a gustatory modality for these blended soups - it's difficult to believe that I coped for then many years without a nutrient processor.
I'll reproduced my version of the recipe here, but experience gratis to endeavour out the original instead.
1 tbsp butter
1 carmine onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 large carrots, diced
1 large/2 minor beetroots, peeled in addition to diced
1 large/2 minor potatoes, peeled in addition to diced
2 tsp terra firma cumin
1/4 loving cup milk
1 Massel chicken-style stock cube, dissolved inwards 2 cups of hot water
Salt, pepper in addition to balsamic vinegar to taste
Melt the butter inwards a large pot in addition to ready the onion in addition to garlic for nigh x minutes. Add the cumin in addition to mix it upwardly thoroughly.
Throw inwards the diced vegies in addition to add together inwards the stock - y'all actually desire a fair flake of stock to boil the vegies in. I ended upwardly padding things out alongside a flake of extra hot H2O here, then y'all may desire to merely brand upwardly to a greater extent than stock.
Simmer for 45 minutes to an threescore minutes - until all the vegies are overnice in addition to soft. Whizz the whole mix upwardly inwards a nutrient processor in addition to furnish it to the pot. Stir inwards the milk in addition to add together salt, pepper in addition to balsamic vinegar to taste.
Serve upwardly alongside unopen to fresh staff of life slices in addition to relish the warming goodness.
I made a few changes, through both laziness in addition to a lack of ingredients (we likewise decided to cutting dorsum on the quantities), but it nonetheless turned out pretty well. It was slightly starchy, then I mightiness readjust the vegie proportions adjacent fourth dimension - mayhap an extra beetroot in addition to i or 2 less potatoes, but otherwise it actually hitting the spot. I'm actually getting a gustatory modality for these blended soups - it's difficult to believe that I coped for then many years without a nutrient processor.
I'll reproduced my version of the recipe here, but experience gratis to endeavour out the original instead.
1 tbsp butter
1 carmine onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 large carrots, diced
1 large/2 minor beetroots, peeled in addition to diced
1 large/2 minor potatoes, peeled in addition to diced
2 tsp terra firma cumin
1/4 loving cup milk
1 Massel chicken-style stock cube, dissolved inwards 2 cups of hot water
Salt, pepper in addition to balsamic vinegar to taste
Melt the butter inwards a large pot in addition to ready the onion in addition to garlic for nigh x minutes. Add the cumin in addition to mix it upwardly thoroughly.
Throw inwards the diced vegies in addition to add together inwards the stock - y'all actually desire a fair flake of stock to boil the vegies in. I ended upwardly padding things out alongside a flake of extra hot H2O here, then y'all may desire to merely brand upwardly to a greater extent than stock.
Simmer for 45 minutes to an threescore minutes - until all the vegies are overnice in addition to soft. Whizz the whole mix upwardly inwards a nutrient processor in addition to furnish it to the pot. Stir inwards the milk in addition to add together salt, pepper in addition to balsamic vinegar to taste.
Serve upwardly alongside unopen to fresh staff of life slices in addition to relish the warming goodness.
Minggu, 06 Desember 2020
April 4, 2007: Wednesday Black Mexican
It's been a piece since nosotros entertained anyone inward our home, but roughly newcomers to my workplace provided a proficient argue to describe out the biggest saucepan too purchase an extra 6-pack of beer. Tracy too her partner Lee are the latest Brisbane migrants to Melbourne's inner N too from fifty-fifty farther afield (the Northern Territory!), Beth has at 1 time taken upwards residence at a desk side yesteryear side to mine. On Wed eve they gave me an hr or hence caput showtime from the role to gear upwards up a Mexican-themed dinner at home.
On my previous night's planning, I made the determination to move along this weeknight repast quite casual too low-stress. This meant no-fuss appetisers too desserts, too a serve-yourself top dog course. Michael had picked out roughly perfectly ripe avocadoes too it didn't accept also long to mash them alongside a really juicy lime too stir inward roughly finely chopped crimson onion too a flake of sour cream. Voila! Tangy guacamole. I brought out the Chilli Factory salsa every bit a spicy side, too in that location were Coronas all round.
Michael tin accept most of the credit for dinner - an enormous pot of TVP/red edible bean chilli. This is the variety of hearty vegetarian dish that ensures we'll never hanker for spag bol: thick love apple tree sauce alongside chopped veges, crimson kidney beans too our favourite pseudo-mince ladled into bowls too garnished alongside a dab of sour cream. My contribution was to whip upwards a cheesy cornbread batter too bake it inward a muffin tray. We kept the chilli too cornbread minimally spicy, offering pickled jalapenos too finely diced chipotles to cater for the varying tastes too tolerances amid us.
For once, I showed a flake of restraint on the dessert front. Rather than poring over cookbooks for days too baking something rich too labour-intensive, I turned to Allergy Block for roughly theme-appropriate chocolate. I constitute the Green too Black's Maya Gold I was later on too also picked upwards roughly other doozy - dark chocolate with cayenne! Good intelligence that it's organic, vegan too made alongside ethically-purchased cocoa. It was a pleasant 70% cocoa block too a deadening burner - I was chewing for a proficient 5 seconds earlier I detected the cayenne, but it's an unmistakable estrus at the dorsum of the pharynx 1 time it does arrive. The G&B's was everything I remembered it to be: shine but non waxy too alongside an intensely orangish too subtly spiced edge.
Admittedly this was a flake to a greater extent than involved than our green weeknight meal, but nosotros lost naught inward stripping the bill of fare dorsum from my to a greater extent than elaborate efforts of the past. When the guests get got left too I'm stacking the dishwasher, I experience to a greater extent than satisfied from having spent fourth dimension inward proficient companionship than I e'er volition from huddling inward the kitchen for hours on end, trying to print alongside risky too complicated food.
Chilli alongside TVP
(from Moosewood Restaurant New Classics)
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 crimson onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon set down cumin
1 tablespoon set down coriander
1-2 teaspoons chilli powder
1 medium zucchini, diced
1 large crimson capsicum, diced
2 cups of TVP, re-hydrated inward 2 cups of hot water
2 x 800g cans crushed tomatoes
2 x 800g cans crimson kidney beans, rinsed too drained
2/3 loving cup love apple tree paste
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped
Tabasco or other hot sauce to taste
salt, to taste
optional garnish of grated cheese or sour cream
Heat the petroleum inward a large saucepan, frying the onions too garlic until soft. Add the cumin, coriander too chilli pulverisation too stir well. Next add together the diced zucchini too capsicum, embrace too gear upwards for three minutes. Stir inward the TVP too gear upwards for a few to a greater extent than minutes until it's heated through. The canned tomatoes too beans larn inward next, hence lastly the parsley too seasonings. The chilli tin rest covered on a depression to medium heat, alongside occasional stirs, if you lot are preparing other nutrient (such every bit delicious cornbread!). If the chilli is thicker than you lot prefer, sparse it out alongside a footling H2O or stock only a infinitesimal or ii earlier serving. To serve, ladle the chilli into bowls or mugs too garnish if you lot wish.
Cajun Cornbread
(from Kurma Dasa's World Vegetarian Food)
1 loving cup polenta
1/2 loving cup obviously flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika (substitute roughly or all of this alongside cayenne if you lot like)
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/4 teaspoon freshly set down dark pepper
2 tablespoons minced dark-green chillies (optional)
1 loving cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons oil
3/4 loving cup grated tasty cheese
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C. Combine the dry out ingredients, polenta through to the optional chillies, inward a bowl too mix well. In a sort out pocket-size bowl, whisk together the buttermilk too oil. Combine the dry out too moisture ingredients (don't over-mix) too crimp inward the grated cheese. Spoon the mixture into a greased loaf pan, pie dish or muffin tray (I made 8 pocket-size muffin portions). Bake for close xx minutes or until golden on top. Serve warm.
Chilli alongside TVP
(from Moosewood Restaurant New Classics)
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 crimson onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon set down cumin
1 tablespoon set down coriander
1-2 teaspoons chilli powder
1 medium zucchini, diced
1 large crimson capsicum, diced
2 cups of TVP, re-hydrated inward 2 cups of hot water
2 x 800g cans crushed tomatoes
2 x 800g cans crimson kidney beans, rinsed too drained
2/3 loving cup love apple tree paste
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, finely chopped
Tabasco or other hot sauce to taste
salt, to taste
optional garnish of grated cheese or sour cream
Heat the petroleum inward a large saucepan, frying the onions too garlic until soft. Add the cumin, coriander too chilli pulverisation too stir well. Next add together the diced zucchini too capsicum, embrace too gear upwards for three minutes. Stir inward the TVP too gear upwards for a few to a greater extent than minutes until it's heated through. The canned tomatoes too beans larn inward next, hence lastly the parsley too seasonings. The chilli tin rest covered on a depression to medium heat, alongside occasional stirs, if you lot are preparing other nutrient (such every bit delicious cornbread!). If the chilli is thicker than you lot prefer, sparse it out alongside a footling H2O or stock only a infinitesimal or ii earlier serving. To serve, ladle the chilli into bowls or mugs too garnish if you lot wish.
Cajun Cornbread
(from Kurma Dasa's World Vegetarian Food)
1 loving cup polenta
1/2 loving cup obviously flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika (substitute roughly or all of this alongside cayenne if you lot like)
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/4 teaspoon freshly set down dark pepper
2 tablespoons minced dark-green chillies (optional)
1 loving cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons oil
3/4 loving cup grated tasty cheese
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C. Combine the dry out ingredients, polenta through to the optional chillies, inward a bowl too mix well. In a sort out pocket-size bowl, whisk together the buttermilk too oil. Combine the dry out too moisture ingredients (don't over-mix) too crimp inward the grated cheese. Spoon the mixture into a greased loaf pan, pie dish or muffin tray (I made 8 pocket-size muffin portions). Bake for close xx minutes or until golden on top. Serve warm.
Sabtu, 05 Desember 2020
April 5, 2007: Shakahari Ii
Cindy together with I marked the starting fourth dimension of the Easter long weekend amongst a jaunt to Cinema Nova to come across here.
April 6, 2007: Carry Populace Bar
Post-modern sculpture? If it looks to you lot similar the variety of overblown interpretive concrete geometry that belongs inward a populace infinite such equally Federation Square you're getting warmer. It's truly the deck article of furniture at Transport Public Bar (perhaps you lot noticed the white sneaker toe only by the scarlet padded seat). Even amongst nearly retail outlets closed, the metropolis (and the pub) were healthily populated on Good Friday. With books too blankets, Michael too I sought an lx minutes or two's refuge inward the metropolis gardens earlier our growling stomachs led us dorsum to the concrete commons too the deep-frier. (Ironically, the Transport populace bar claims an "emphasis on organic meals too environmental design". With non a leafy light-green to last seen, nosotros truly missed their point.)
While much idea has clearly gone into the modern pattern of the Transport populace bar, it's to a greater extent than pub than trendy bar. It's a house for a beer, a steak or burger amongst chips too mayhap a yell at the footy on hide - non truly somewhere to last seen, too definitely non the house for a date. In the absence of whatever televised football, this was only fine for us - an opened upwardly ceiling too wall of louvres allow the Sun too 'fresh' metropolis air inward too provided ample sentiment of the Swanston St goings-on.
The carte du jour at the bar has a few vego options. Michael was good pleased to run into a veggie burger (with chips, $10) amidst them, too I predictably had eyes solely for the chips ($6.50). They were of a pretty expert standard, I mean value they were lightly battered for extra crunch, amongst a sizable dose of seasoning. Get 'em downwards quick, though, because they're far less interesting in ane lawsuit lukewarm. The Lycopersicon esculentum sauce too capsicum mayo were portioned quite generously, but were average inward flavour. Michael's burger was an first-class residue of crunchy too chewy, fried too fresh, but the potato-heavy patty is a chip much given that the prescribed side is a handful-and-a-half of chips.
When solely partially full, the Transport populace bar is a pleasant (and well-located) house to sit down dorsum amongst a friend, a beer, too a salty snack or meal. For this role a vegetarian is only equally probable to relish it equally whatever other punter.
Address: Ground Floor, Transport Hotel, Federation Square, cnr of Flinders too Swanston Streets, Melbourne CBD
Ph: 9654 8808
Licensed
Price: veg mains $10-13
Website: www.transporthotel.com.au
When solely partially full, the Transport populace bar is a pleasant (and well-located) house to sit down dorsum amongst a friend, a beer, too a salty snack or meal. For this role a vegetarian is only equally probable to relish it equally whatever other punter.
Address: Ground Floor, Transport Hotel, Federation Square, cnr of Flinders too Swanston Streets, Melbourne CBD
Ph: 9654 8808
Licensed
Price: veg mains $10-13
Website: www.transporthotel.com.au
Jumat, 04 Desember 2020
April 6, 2007: Leftover Makeover - Mexican Toastie
Wednesday black Mexican comes Fri night's dinner: a toasted sandwich filled amongst chilli too tasty cheese too topped amongst guacamole.
Kamis, 03 Desember 2020
April 7, 2007: Cafe 3A
Update 31/12/2014: Cafe 3A is closed.
The carte du jour makes for impressive reading. The savoury breakfasts are egg-based, but alongside a few intriguing variations from the measure fare. Slightly exotic ingredients similar capers, olive tapenade as well as goat's cheese are dotted throughout the carte du jour as well as y'all tin create your ain brekkie from a base of operations of eggs on sourdough. I decided to skip the poached eggs for a alter as well as instead opted for a vegetarian omelette (see above), filled alongside blood-red peppers, goat's cheese, salsa verde as well as capers. It was quite tasty - the capers inward detail providing tiny bursts of flavor equally my teeth located them. Unfortunately it was all a flake dry out - the toast came without butter (although I could convey asked if I actually cared), as well as the omelette seemed only slightly overcooked. I was hoping that the salsa verde would hold upwardly a form of sauce for the omelette, but it had instead been stirred though the omelette mix. It was fine (and quite inexpensive at $9.50), but the positive things I'd read elsewhere had me hoping for more.
Cindy spent a skilful land studying the sugariness breakfast options on the carte du jour - at that spot were 2 wonderful sounding choices. First of all, turkish breadstuff slathered alongside rhubarb, strawberry as well as nectarine compote, alongside cinnamon as well as juniper berries, organic yoghurt as well as pistachios (for a remarkable $6.50). There was besides a french toast dish, incorporating sour cherries, roasted almonds as well as cherry syrup ($8.50). After much humming as well as hahing, Cindy bizarrely opted for something off the tiffin menu: a vegetarian panini alongside plum chutney, avocado, goat's cheese as well as rocket ($8.50). I stole a tiny gustatory modality of the cheese as well as chutney, both of which were wonderful - it made me wonder where the goat's cheese had gone inward my omelet, the flavor didn't compare at all. Cindy raved almost the fresh avocado as well as she seemed rattling content alongside her surprisingly non-dessert styled breakfast.
Address: 3A Edward Street, Brunswick
Ph: 9380 4996
Licensed
Prices: Veg brekkies $3.50-$10, lunches $8.50-$10
Cafe 3A roughly the corner was opened upwardly for business.
The carte du jour makes for impressive reading. The savoury breakfasts are egg-based, but alongside a few intriguing variations from the measure fare. Slightly exotic ingredients similar capers, olive tapenade as well as goat's cheese are dotted throughout the carte du jour as well as y'all tin create your ain brekkie from a base of operations of eggs on sourdough. I decided to skip the poached eggs for a alter as well as instead opted for a vegetarian omelette (see above), filled alongside blood-red peppers, goat's cheese, salsa verde as well as capers. It was quite tasty - the capers inward detail providing tiny bursts of flavor equally my teeth located them. Unfortunately it was all a flake dry out - the toast came without butter (although I could convey asked if I actually cared), as well as the omelette seemed only slightly overcooked. I was hoping that the salsa verde would hold upwardly a form of sauce for the omelette, but it had instead been stirred though the omelette mix. It was fine (and quite inexpensive at $9.50), but the positive things I'd read elsewhere had me hoping for more.
Cindy spent a skilful land studying the sugariness breakfast options on the carte du jour - at that spot were 2 wonderful sounding choices. First of all, turkish breadstuff slathered alongside rhubarb, strawberry as well as nectarine compote, alongside cinnamon as well as juniper berries, organic yoghurt as well as pistachios (for a remarkable $6.50). There was besides a french toast dish, incorporating sour cherries, roasted almonds as well as cherry syrup ($8.50). After much humming as well as hahing, Cindy bizarrely opted for something off the tiffin menu: a vegetarian panini alongside plum chutney, avocado, goat's cheese as well as rocket ($8.50). I stole a tiny gustatory modality of the cheese as well as chutney, both of which were wonderful - it made me wonder where the goat's cheese had gone inward my omelet, the flavor didn't compare at all. Cindy raved almost the fresh avocado as well as she seemed rattling content alongside her surprisingly non-dessert styled breakfast.Address: 3A Edward Street, Brunswick
Ph: 9380 4996
Licensed
Prices: Veg brekkies $3.50-$10, lunches $8.50-$10
Rabu, 02 Desember 2020
April 7, 2007: Pizza Meine Liebe
food blog to see precisely the same restaurant. But nosotros bided (bode? bid?) our fourth dimension for a Northcote gig earlier getting ourselves a vague booking at Pizza Meine Liebe. (Vague inwards that they consented to writing downward the reservation but idea that at that topographic point powerfulness last unopen to other grouping nonetheless finishing their repast at that tabular array - equally it happened, the tabular array was build clean as well as prepare to work on our punctual arrival.)
Tonight our booking was for 3 - along for the ride was my young-at-heart aunt Carol, who would also last joining us at the Northcote Social Club for unopen to indie rock. Glancing at the circles traced on the wall, nosotros presently agreed to percentage 2 large pizzas but required unopen to to a greater extent than bargaining fourth dimension to handle on the toppings. There's a page-long listing alongside extra specials, also - non precisely traditional (as evidenced yesteryear the Queenslander as well as Ozzi pizzas inwards Mellie's review), but carefully grouped into complementary flavours (nothing irritates me to a greater extent than than a unmarried 'vegetarian pizza' alternative on a menu, consisting of every non-meat production inwards the pantry). Multiple vegetarian choices were scattered throughout the list, as well as I suspect that the staff would willingly omit the meat from unopen to of the non-veg choices too. Our terminal consensus was to social club a Madame Pi Pi (mozzarella, pumpkin, porcini, rocket as well as fetta; $17) as well as from the specials list, Rosemary iv Michelle (mozzarella, taleggio, potatoes, slow-cooked onions as well as rosemary; $17.50).
Oskar as well as at I Carusi. The departure I noted was that the pizza trays are liberally greased alongside stone oil but don't worry, we're non getting into icky Pizza Hut territory here! Similarly I was pleased that the cheeses played restrained roles rather than creating a congealed as well as oily elevation layer. Madame Pi Pi was a delicious clash of sweetness as well as tender pumpkin against fresh leafy rocket - the porcinis were flavoursome but scarce. I enjoyed Rosemary iv Michelle to a greater extent than than my similar social club at Oskar - the cheese was to a greater extent than subtle as well as the onions were eye-rollingly soft as well as sweet. Some slices had only the correct aromatic hitting of rosemary, spell others left me needing more. It takes a flake of tending for the bread/potato/cheese combination to overstep its heavy, obese foundation!
Comparison to I Carusi runs farther than the pizza bases, alongside loud conversation bouncing off the walls as well as efficient, hip staff who autumn only curt of friendly. Oskar nonetheless tops Michael's pizza listing as well as nosotros alive closer to I Carusi, but I'd similar to revisit Pizza Meine Liebe adjacent fourth dimension there's a gig inwards Northcote - non to the lowest degree because nosotros skipped dessert.
Address: 231 High St, Northcote
Ph: 9482 7001
BYO & licenced
Price: veg pizzas $11-20
Selasa, 01 Desember 2020
April 8, 2007: Peanut Bread
I am steadily accumulating a recipe wish-list from other nutrient blogs in addition to alongside a relatively gratis in addition to slow Easter weekend at hand, I decided to knock i to a greater extent than down. This sum of spare fourth dimension made to a greater extent than yeast activity a possibility in addition to hence I travel retrieved i of my earliest bookmarks, for toasted peanut bread. I came across the recipe when Heidi wrote most it on 101 Cookbooks, but the recipe is originally from The Soul of a New Cuisine yesteryear Marcus Samuelsson. It's a curious African-style mix including kokosnoot milk in addition to your ain spicy home-made peanut butter. As bread-baking volition do, this recipe takes a piece to teach together, hence fills your household alongside a rattling homely aroma in addition to is delicious direct out of the oven alongside a chip of butter. Even cooled, it has a warm tint of chilli powder, in addition to the texture is a chip to a greater extent than cakey in addition to less spongey than I await from bread.To live perfectly honest, the kneading in addition to feeding of abode yeast-baking isn't equally therapeutic for me equally it is for Nigella in addition to many other abode cooks. As pleasant equally this recipe was, it didn't thrill me plenty to justify the hours spent in addition to the kitchen mess made. I'll belike give yeast a residuum (pun unintended) for a while, alongside the exception of pizza!
Peanut bread
1 x 400mL tin kokosnoot milk
3 tablespoons honey
1 sachet active dry out yeast (7g, I think)
1 1/2 cups peanuts
1 1/2 teaspoons chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon position down cumin
2 1/2 cups obviously flour
2 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon salt
60g butter, melted
Pour the kokosnoot milk into a minor saucepan in addition to convey to the boil. Add the dearest in addition to stir until dissolved. Remove from the estrus in addition to allow it cool until it's simply lukewarm. Whisk inwards the yeast in addition to allow it stand upwards until frothy, 5-10 minutes.
While you're waiting for the kokosnoot milk to cool or froth, estrus upwards a frypan in addition to toast the peanuts for a duad of minutes, until they're golden in addition to smelling de-li-cious. Add the chilli pulverization in addition to cumin in addition to toast, stirring, until they're bursting alongside spicy smells too. Let them cool a bit, hence blend inwards a nutrient processor until you've got a polish paste.
In a large bowl, combine the flours in addition to salt. Add the butter, kokosnoot milk in addition to peanut glue in addition to mix together carefully. It's hard to teach all of the peanut butter mixed in, in addition to it doesn't wound to induce got simply a piddling marbling visible. Plonk the dough onto a floured surface in addition to knead for most five minutes. Then it's into a greased bowl, covered alongside a tea towel to ascent for 1 1/2 hours, or until doubled inwards size.
Butter i large or 2 minor loaf pans. Mush upwards the dough into i or 2 loaf shapes in addition to plonk it/'em into the pan(s). Cover them in i trial again in addition to give the dough or hence other xl minutes of rising time.Bake inwards a 280 degrees C oven for most 35 minutes.
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