April 22, 2009: Soft Tofu Tacos

East Brunswick Club meal amongst them at the destination of final year, Caroline as well as T allow us inwards on 1 of their favourite ways to develop tofu - baked inwards cubes, seasoned amongst nutritional yeast flakes as well as chicken-style stock powder. Thinking it'd brand a swell taco filling, I couldn't resist adding a fiddling oregano to the 'fu. Michael sauteed a cheerful mix of sliced zucchini, capsicum as well as mushrooms, as well as then poured over a purée of pickled chipotles (adobo free) as well as balsamic vinegar. We rounded out the repast amongst fresh lettuce as well as hot, soft tortillas.

At get-go bite, this didn't blow me away... as well as then it actually crept upwardly on me equally I munched on. It doesn't compare to Trippy Taco's spicy grilled tofu, nor volition it tempt omnivores away from their chicken fajitas, but it surely has a charm all its own. Low effort, fresh-tasting as well as adaptable, I tin definitely run into this entering our weeknight repast rotation.

April 23, 2009: Tiffins Iii

Update 27/1/2019: Tiffins delivery is no longer available.

leftover roti for a 2d lunch.

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You tin read my other accounts of Tiffins here together with here.

April 23, 2009: Cafe Najla

Update 31/12/2014: Cafe Najla is closed. 

Cindy together with I had a appointment alongside this recommendation from FoodieFi. We turned upwards at almost 8:30 concerned that we'd girlfriend out on a table, but in that place was enough of infinite for us together with nosotros settled inwards to banking concern tally out our options.

The waitress recommended the vegetarian Mezza selection, including delights similar Bazrjan (tangy pomegranate bulgher salad alongside fresh tomato, Aleppo peoppers together with walnuts) together with Salatit Shwander (beetroot together with onion inwards pomegranate dressing), together with nosotros were both sorely tempted. But ane time I'd spotted the vegetarian laid card ($22.50) in that place was no turning back. I was unadventurous alongside my drinks alternative but Cindy splashed out on a sour cherry cordial alongside mineral H2O ($4.50), which tasted equally adept equally it sounds.

First upwards inwards the laid card was a dip selection, including a wonderfully smoky baba ganoush, a garlicy hummus together with a sweetness beetroot based dip. The dips came alongside unopen to wellness vegie dippers but equally good alongside a big pile of bread, together with Cindy was already concerned that we'd over-ordered past times the fourth dimension we'd worked our means through these.


Next upwards were our ii entree sized dishes. The Fatet last Zed (Damascan means chickpea ragout, served alongside rich yoghurt, tahini dressing, pistachio nuts together with crisp pita) was unopen to other inwards the long business of yoghurty chickpea things that we've had around town (and at home) - it was a delicious version of it, exclusively allow downwards slightly past times the sogginess of the 'crisp' pita.


It was closely followed past times the Ful M'dammes (a warm broad edible bean together with Lycopersicon esculentum salad, served alongside lemon, garlic together with tahini dressing). The dressing was super-tangy together with well-suited to the tender beans - fifty-fifty the Lycopersicon esculentum worked inwards this dish. The major work nosotros had was our lack of something to soak upwards all the deliciousness - nosotros in all probability should stimulate got saved unopen to of our dipping bread.


Our salad, Salatit Fattoush (Syrian salad alongside Cos lettuce, grapes together with strawberries, servied alongside sumac together with pomegranate dressing together with crispy pita) was the meal's highlight - the sweetness of the fruit together with the lemony seize alongside teeth of the sumac were an outstanding combination, together with this fourth dimension the crispy pita was overnice together with crispy. It's non something I'd always stimulate got ordered off the menu, but it actually shone.

We were both actually struggling to uncovering room past times this point, then in that place was no disappointment that the laid dessert alternative was a minor plate of glutinous Turkish delight, served alongside mint tea.

I've been turned off Turkish please past times Cadbury, but whenever I've had a serve of the proper stuff, I've actually enjoyed it. It helped to stimulate got the minty tea to accept the border of the sweetness a bit.

Nalja plow on a pretty adept vegetarian feast, together with stimulate got a broad selection of smaller offerings on their regular menu. With friendly staff, a cosy infinite together with a High St location, I was surprised that in that place weren't to a greater extent than people filling themselves alongside Middle-Eastern delights. Their loss I suppose.

Address: 102 High St, Northcote
Ph: 9482 1168
Licensed

Price: Set card - $22.50, Mezze - $4.20 each, Entrees - $10.80-$13.80, Mains - $18.50-$28.50

April 24, 2009: Mojo's Weird Pizza

Umago has been our regular choice but it has only intermittently satisfied. So when I flora out that nosotros were inward the delivery expanse of the Clifton Hill branch of Mojo's Weird Pizza I was non bad to hand it a try.

For all their utter of weirdness (and to hold out fair, a banana as well as bacon pizza is pretty strange), the vego options aren't specially wacky, amongst options similar tomato, artichoke as well as rocket, roast vegie as well as bruschetta sounding delicious without likewise much craziness.

Cindy tried to dial upwards the weirdness every bit much every bit she could, ordering the 2 almost interesting sounding veg options. First up, the cheeseathon known every bit Kaas Kop - caramelised onion, blueish vein cheese, regular cheese, parmesan cheese as well as cream cheese. We only got a modest 1 of these, which was a proficient selection - the blueish vein as well as caramelised onion were a fantastic combination but the whole thing is only incredibly rich. You tin experience your arteries clogging.


Our minute selection was The Gringo (salsa base, corn chips, cheese, spanish onion, fresh tomato, jalapenos, cream cheese. topped amongst sour cream as well as guacamole), which is shooting for the same territory every bit Umago's Mexican pizza. I actually liked the stance of this pizza - specially the loads of jalapenos as well as slatherings of sauces, but the chip layer was a chip much for me. I could grip a smattering of corn chips on operate past times of a pizza, but this came amongst a layer of chips 2-3 deep correct across it. Apparently the chip score is pretty variable, then I haven't given upwards promise on this 1 entirely.


Cindy couldn't resist ordering a garlic staff of life ($5), which wasn't anything specially special (beyond the fact that it was garlic staff of life of course).


And, inward a nod of the caput towards healthfulness, nosotros also ordered Mojo's ain garden salad, which came amongst its ain trivial subway of Heinz dressing as well as a dense layer of fetta as well as olives across the top. It was okay, but a long means from existence salubrious I suspect.

I had high hopes for Mojo's, but this was all only a trivial disappointing. I mean value I'll endeavor them 1 time again but my expectations convey been suitably modified.

Address: 384 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill (there's also a Port Melbourne branch)
Ph: 9489 6588
Licensed.
Price: weird pizzas from $11 (small) to $22 (family), classic pizzas $10-$20
Website: http://www.mojosweirdpizza.com.au

April 25, 2009: Hot Chocolate

Koko Black's to a greater extent than sophisticated version since moving to Melbourne, but mostly I prefer my chocolate served inwards its enterprise state.

That is, until Tracy as well as Lee rewarded our cat-sitting with a canister of Monsieur Truffe's hot chocolate mix. These are dark chocolate buds of 70% cocoa solids, to last melted inwards just-boiled milk as well as sweetened if y'all must. Noticing that they're vegan, I packed them as well as a litre of oat milk for dessert to follow a weeknight dinner at Lisa's house. I stretched my resources with to a greater extent than people than the instructions recommended but I don't mean value anyone felt cheated - this is i rich, cocoa-packed brew. I've since enjoyed using the same method with other scraps of dark chocolate (if chocolate tin e'er last called 'scraps'), as well as convey persisted with oat milk inwards preference to dairy or soy.

The recipe below makes but i of my slightly smaller portions. I mean value I'll get-go trialling a pinch or 2 of solid soil spice (ginger, cardamom, cinnamon or chilli!) to proceed things interesting.

Hot chocolate
40g dark chocolate - inwards buds, grated, or pulverised inwards a nutrient processor
200mL milk (not necessarily dairy)
sugar, to sense of savor (my sense of savor ordinarily existence none!)
a pinch or 2 of solid soil spice (optional)

Bring the milk but to the boil inwards a minor saucepan, as well as thence trim down the rut to low-medium. Add the chocolate, saccharide as well as spice, stirring until the chocolate is completely melted. (Scrape the bottom of the saucepan equally y'all stir, that's where it likes to lurk!) Pour the hot chocolate into a mug as well as sip, like shooting fish in a barrel as well as appreciatively.

April 25, 2009: Cryptic Cookies

This is my outset endeavor at something from the sweeter side of Veganomicon. For all their Plain Jane looks, I've dubbed these cryptic cookies for a argue - they convey a lot to a greater extent than going on than they allow on at outset glance. The initial hint for the non-scoffer is the curious aroma. The outset seize amongst teeth confirms it to hold upwardly rose water; together with so there's sourness earlier sweetness together with equally chewing continues, a golden roastedness together with hint of tabular array salt to circular out the flavour.

The rose water's backed upwardly amongst an all-star line-up of vanilla, lime, cardamom together with sesame seeds. These are truly supposed to hold upwardly decorated amongst chopped pistachios (hence their master name, pistachio-rosewater cookies) but designated shopper Michael lamented that at that topographic point wasn't a pistachio to hold upwardly had inwards Fitzroy, together with I took a risk on the sesame seeds inwards the pantry. I wasn't similar a shot convinced, all the same they snuck their agency into my favour over the course of report of a few cookies.

Isa together with Terry hope cookies "pretty equally a picture" together with I'm certain they'd hold upwardly a fiddling to a greater extent than eye-catching if studded amongst the recommended pistachios. However, my dough was far also runny to whorl into balls so they seemed doomed to this blobbly shape. I tin imagine, though, how lovely they'd expect if the dough was piped into thick due south shapes using a star-shaped nozzle. Warm from the oven, the cookies had the perfect repose of crisp outer together with chewy centre; in ane trial cool they were uniformly crunchy, a fine candidate for dunking inwards tea.

Cryptic cookies
(based on the pistachio-rose H2O cookies inwards Veganomicon, past times Isa Moskowitz & Terry Romero)

1 1/4 cups dark-brown sugar
1/2 loving cup canola oil
3 tablespoons oat milk
1 tablespoon rose water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
juice together with zest of 1 lime
1/4 loving cup cornflour
1 3/4 cups patently flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon reason cardamom
1/4 loving cup sesame seeds

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray or ii amongst paper.

Whisk together the sugar, oil, milk, rose water, vanilla, lime juice together with zest inwards a bowl. Whisk inwards the cornflour until the mixture is smooth. Thoroughly mix through the flour, baking powder, tabular array salt together with cardamom.

Drop large teaspoons of the dough onto the baking sheet, leaving enough of infinite betwixt cookies. Sprinkle the blobs amongst sesames seeds, together with so bake them for 10-13 minutes (mine needed no to a greater extent than than 10 minutes). Allow them to cool together with theater upwardly on the tray for five minutes earlier transferring them to a rack.

April 30, 2009: Gigibaba

28/02/2013: Based on Ed's tweet, it appears that Gigibaba is no more.

Both blogosphere traditional media been abuzz Grumpy's Green across the street subsequently Michael added his mention to the want list.

The bill of fare offers good over a dozen teeny tasting plates as well as almost a tertiary equally many primary dishes. It's worth noting that the bill of fare seems to alter regularly. On this night, none of the mains were vegetarian (save for the choban salata lingering lone at the terminate of the same bill of fare page), but almost one-half of the tasters are veg-friendly as well as I was happy to graze my agency through them. These saucers of nutrient are as well as therefore teeny, inwards fact, that Michael as well as I tried every vegetarian dish on the bill of fare except i (the tabular array salt cured dark olives, since y'all asked).

Before nosotros teach whatever further, allow me apologise for the photos. This is a hip as well as in-demand establishment; the lights are depression as well as the bulk of customers (including Michael as well as I) are seated at a bar, facing the jovial but bustling staff. It wasn't a dark for flash photography or desktop tripods! Moving on to the plain of written report of this photograph - Gigibaba offers corking bread. And though they'll introduce it inwards smallish servings, in that place seems to hold upwards a bottomless provide of this soft sourdough.

And what ameliorate agency to relish fine breadstuff than amongst baba ganouj ($6)? It was lick-the-plate fabulous, though baba ganouj oft seems to convey that consequence on me.

These are cabbage sarma ($8), cabbage rolls stuffed amongst flavoured rice. They were pleasant, but a piddling bland to my taste.

The love apple tree as well as capsicum ezme ($8), yesteryear comparison, was vibrant inwards color as well as acidic flavour, amongst lots of oily juice to mop upwards amongst our instant bowlful of bread.

The smoked eggplant salad amongst basil as well as roast peppers ($9) seemed almost similar a fusion of the smoky baba ganouj as well as tangy ezme; a corking combination but a piddling repetitive nether the circumstances.

Michael was rather keen for the tiresome braised runner beans (fasulye, $8), but their mild saltiness didn't quite alive upwards to his expectations.

The hummus ($6) was lovely, but suffered yesteryear arriving subsequently the knock-out baba ganouj.

We finished off our savoury succession amongst the sprightly choban salata ($8), a mix of tomato, cucumber, onion as well as parsley, dressed inwards lemon juice as well as olive oil.

It's non oft that I sample vii savoury plates as well as detect room for dessert! Here I similar Gigibaba's fashion - rather than offering a dessert menu, the chef provides a pick of sweets that follow his electrical current whim ($8 per person).

The baklava was stuffed amongst walnuts as well as though it was sure enough sugary, it wasn't dripping amongst syrup equally they oft are. I liked that.

This is a sliver of poached quince, draped amongst a creamy choc-hazelnut sauce.

Finally, a pot barely larger than a thimble. It contained a panna cotta-like dish scented amongst rose H2O as well as topped amongst tangy pomegranate seeds.

Michael washed his portion downwards amongst a Turkish coffee, spell I opted for the sweeter, less caffeine-laden alternative of apple tree tea.

Cafe Zum Zum, Rumi or Cafe Najla when we're inwards the mood for a Middle Eastern-style feast.

Address: 102 Smith St, Collingwood
Ph: 9486 0345
Fully licensed
Price: veg plates $6-9, dessert $8

April 29-May 2, 2009: White Chocolate Brownies

made for me. Choosing a recipe also long to check on 1 page, she revealed the tantalising listing of ingredients for white chocolate brownies inwards April, leaving me hanging until May to truly run across the training method! This truly worked out good - I baked the brownies slow inwards Apr for a tea political party held on the outset weekend inwards May.

As yous tin run across from the photo, this brownie isn't without cocoa solids. In fact, there's almost one-half a kilo of three dissimilar kinds of chocolate inwards the smallish tray I baked. The batter, which contains to a greater extent than or less of this chocolate, serves every bit piffling to a greater extent than than a binder for the chocolate chunks. As a number this is 1 of the firmest as well as to the lowest degree fudgy brownies I've sampled. That didn't comport upon its popularity, though - the 24 pocket-size pieces that I cutting this into had completely disappeared earlier I left the party.

A quirk of the master recipe was the inclusion of 125g patently flour as well as 40g self-raising flour. I don't laissez passer on self-raising flour inwards my pantry since it tin live on substituted amongst a combination of patently flour as well as baking powder. By my scrawled estimations, this recipe is requesting 164g patently flour as well as simply a gram of baking pulverization (give or take, uh, a gram). I humoured my batter amongst that pinch of baking powder, but given that our favourite brownie recipe doesn't include whatever leavening, I suspect these tin safely live on baked without it.

White chocolate brownies

125g butter
150g milk chocolate
50g nighttime chocolate
1/2 loving cup castor sugar
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
165g patently flour
125g white chocolate, chopped
125g milk chocolate, chopped

Preheat over to 170°C. Grease as well as trouble a 20cm foursquare cake tin amongst paper.

In a medium-sized saucepan over depression heat, melt the butter, outset 150g milk chocolate as well as the nighttime chocolate. Remove the saucepan from the oestrus as well as allow it to cool for close 10 minutes.

Whisk the saccharide as well as eggs into the melted chocolate butter. Thoroughly stir through the flour, thence plication through the chopped chocolate. Pour the brownie batter into the cake tin, smoothing over the top. Bake for close thirty minutes, testing amongst a skewer.

May 2, 2009: Ray Iii

new breakfast options popping upward roughly the place, it's been a long fourth dimension since nosotros made it upward to Brunswick to view our one-time favourite Ray. Not much has changed inwards the intervening months - same put back, slightly disorganised staff, same Middle-Eastern inspired breakfast carte du jour as well as the same divine coffee.

We both decided to stimulate something novel - Cindy went amongst the French toast amongst sweetness labna as well as maple syrup ($8 - run across above). The Turkish breadstuff makes a especially expert French toast, as well as the combination of labna as well as pistachios industrial plant nicely. It was in all likelihood a combat heavy on the maple syrup, as well as could accept used a combat of fruit to mix things upward a little. Still, at $8, this is an oustandingly expert value sweetness brekkie.

As much equally I dear the poached eggs at Ray, I decided to branch out as well as stimulate the Baharat baked beans amongst chilli, labna as well as toasted pide ($8.50).

here as well as here.

May 1-2, 2009: Ruby Velvet Cupcakes

Brownies weren't my alone contribution to the tea party. This party's premise was the 30th birthday of a rather keen lady, together with I felt compelled to scroll through my Dessert bookmarks for to a greater extent than inspiration. Red velvet cupcakes caught my eye. This version comes from Simply Recipes together with is written past times cupcake creative Garrett McCord - I'm a regular together with admiring reader of his other nutrient blog, Vanilla Garlic.

The 'red' inwards 'red velvet' doesn't come upward from raspberries, beetroot or whatever other produce; it's the biggest dose of ruby-red nutrient colouring yous mightiness e'er ingest inwards a sitting. The cake besides includes a lilliputian cocoa but doesn't convey a rigid chocolate season at all. These proved to locomote pleasant together with mild; it's their looks that are to a greater extent than memorable.

But, oh - the icing! Red velvet cake is iced non amongst traditional buttercream but amongst a cream cheese-based version. And it was the lightest, smoothest spoonful of sky I may e'er convey tasted. It seems probable that I volition never bother amongst buttercream in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than (though ganache volition in all likelihood even thence instruct a guernsey at other times together with places). Not ane for piping, I slathered it onto the cupcakes amongst a teaspoon together with rather liked the effect.

Garrett's recipe is a fabulous rendition of a southern U.S. of A. favourite. The cake has a lovely texture, but I reckon it's the icing that's the absolute keeper - I'm looking forwards to teaming it amongst other flavours.

Red velvet cupcakes amongst cream cheese icing
(a halved, metric-fied, together with Aussie-spelled version of Garrett McCord's recipe at Simply Recipes)

cake:
3/4 loving cup sugar
60g butter, softened
1 egg
1 1/6 cups evidently flour
1 tablespoon cocoa
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup buttermilk
3/4 tablespoon ruby-red nutrient colouring
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon white vinegar

icing:
60g butter, softened
120g cream cheese, softened
1 - 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Set 10-12 cupcake papers into a cupcake baking tray.

Cream together the butter together with carbohydrate until lite together with fluffy. (I had existent problem amongst this! Most probable because my butter hadn't softened enough.) Beat inwards the egg thoroughly.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, bicarb soda, baking pulverization together with salt. In a 2nd smaller bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla together with ruby-red nutrient colouring.

Gradually together with alternately musical rhythm out the flour together with buttermilk mixtures into the sugar/butter/egg mixture, until the cake batter is polish together with homogeneous.

Spoon the batter into the lined cupcake tray, filling each loving cup close two-thirds full. Bake for 18-22 minutes, checking them amongst a skewer. Allow the cakes to cool earlier icing them.

For the icing, cream together the butter together with cheese, thence musical rhythm out inwards the vanilla. Gradually musical rhythm out inwards the icing carbohydrate until the sweetness is to your sense of savour (I works life that 1 loving cup of icing carbohydrate was exactly right). Slather the icing onto the cupcakes.

Coming Soon: Budda's Twenty-Four Hr Menses & Multicultural Festival

Buttons in addition to Kristy gobbled downward final year, in addition to what Mellie in addition to EG sampled 2 years ago. There's too Vegi-licious, a serial of vegetarian cooking demonstrations featuring lots of Melbourne chefs in addition to running across both days.

Thanks to Jacinta (one of the festival organisers) in addition to regular reader William for giving us a heads-up a few weeks early.

May 4, 2009: Cheatin' Pepperoni

Rather shamefully, it's taken Cindy as well as I close 3 months to build our agency to pre-opening potluck, but since as well as then we've somehow avoided Sydney Road for months at a time. The store is everything other Eat Pizza), hence in that place was alone ane house these lilliputian slices were going.


These were pretty basic pizzas - pre-bought bases from Piedemontes, a chip of tomato plant paste, or hence mushrooms as well as roasted capsicum strips, mozzarella as well as our 'salami'. Fake salami is never quite going to recapture the crispy spiciness of the existent thing, but the Redwood build loads theirs upward amongst or hence kick, giving the pizza the zing I was hoping for. It's in all probability non an essential fake-meat product, but Cheatin' pepperoni volition at to the lowest degree partly fill upward the spicy void on your pizzas. We'll definitely live on going dorsum for seconds.

May 5, 2009: Tumble Apple-Potato Salad

Autumn apple tree too Irish Gaelic patato salad. The inclusion of apple tree sure sets it apart from the mutual bacon-and-mayo Irish Gaelic patato salad seen at barbecues across Australia; Matt besides suggests dressing it amongst blueish cheese or ranch-style condiment. I mean value these dressings are to a greater extent than mutual inwards the the US than here, too easily bought yesteryear the bottle. Instead I idea I'd endeavor making my ain blueish cheese dressing too I picked this recipe from Taste.com.au since it'd brand purpose of my leftover buttermilk.

We teamed the salad amongst baked Autumn apple tree too Irish Gaelic patato salad. The inclusion of apple tree sure sets it apart from the mutual bacon-and-mayo Irish Gaelic patato salad seen at barbecues across Australia; Matt besides suggests dressing it amongst blueish cheese or ranch-style condiment. I mean value these dressings are to a greater extent than mutual inwards the the US than here, too easily bought yesteryear the bottle. Instead I idea I'd endeavor making my ain blueish cheese dressing too I picked this recipe from Taste.com.au since it'd brand purpose of my tofu 'fish' bites too a generous handful of spinach too rocket leaves. I'm nevertheless solely a cautious too occasional appreciater of the to a greater extent than pungent varieties of cheese, too this dressing pleased me inwards to a greater extent than bites than it repelled me (how's that for a recommendation?). Lovers of blueish cheese volition sure relish it; for me it was at its best upwardly against the sweetness of an apple tree chunk or sultana.

Autumn apple-potato salad
(a synthesis of recipes at Matt Bites too Taste.com.au)

salad:
500g modest blood-red potatoes
3 large crisp blood-red apples, e.g. Fuji
1 teaspoon apple tree cider vinegar
1/2 loving cup sultanas
1/2 loving cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped
salt too pepper, to taste

dressing:
80g soft blueish cheese
2 teaspoons apple tree cider vinegar
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/3 loving cup buttermilk
1/2 loving cup sour cream

Boil the potatoes, peel on, until tender but nevertheless firm.

Meanwhile center too die the apples (leave the peel on), house them inwards a salad bowl, too sprinkle them amongst the vinegar to foreclose browning. Toss through the sultanas too parsley.

In a kind out smaller bowl, crumble the blueish cheese too thence whisk through the remaining dressing ingredients until it is every bit polish every bit possible (you could besides create this inwards a nutrient processor).

Once the potatoes are cooked, let them to cool until y'all tin grip them. Roughly die the potatoes too gently toss them through the apple tree salad. Stir through the dressing, flavour to gustatory modality too serve.

May 6, 2009: Bowl Of Mortal Ii

Cindy together with I had made a few failed trips to Port Melbourne trying to revisit Bowl of Soul - failing to banking concern stand upwardly for their opening hours the outset fourth dimension together with and then finding them on summertime holidays the instant time. This fourth dimension everything vicious into house together with nosotros strolled upwardly Bridge Street to an empty but opened upwardly Bowl of Soul.

Things haven't changed much since our concluding take in - it's the same niggling space, amongst the same slightly weird palm tree on the wall. The carte du jour has changed a little, amongst the 2 things nosotros flagged inward our before shipping service (ribs together with chips) no longer available.

wowed us amongst chocolate-coated figs). This fourth dimension it was brownies: a dark-chocolate, cranberry together with raspberry brownie for me together with a vegan peanut butter brownie for Cindy ($4 a pop). I loved my chocolate-berry please but Cindy was a flake disappointed inward hers - the texture was a flake off, lacking inward whatsoever existent cakiness. Something to run on.

We both actually enjoyed our burgers - the buns together with salad were super-fresh, filled amongst saucy goodness together with deliciously filling. Having said that, they'd hold out pretty slow to replicate at dwelling together with mightiness non justify the trip across town (maybe the hot domestic dog does). If yous were working inward the vicinity it would hold out the dejeuner house of your dreams but when yous alive hence to a greater extent than or less the EBC, it takes a pretty neat mock-meat to lure us exterior the inner-north. It's worth noting that this is a really vegan-friendly establishment, amongst almost everything either vegan or vegan-convertible.

Read nigh our previous take in to Bowl of Soul here.

Update 10/5/10: Unfortunately, Bowl of Soul has unopen down. Very disappointing. We didn't instruct across the river really much, but it was ever a winner when nosotros visited.

May 7, 2009: Maggie's Burnished Eggplant In Addition To Leek Tart

vegetarian-themed episode of Beth commented on her success amongst Maggie's leek together with aubergine tart tatin, I decided to choose a become also - I require only the faintest encouragement to conception pastry for dinner! Luckily I was working from abode on this day; it gave me the chance to laid upward the pastry dough together with carbohydrate syrup early.

The pastry dough was done amongst a swift pulse of the nutrient processor together with handily used upward a flake of my leftover sour cream. The carbohydrate syrup started out amongst promise, but ended upward the bane of my afternoon. It's made upward of a quintessentially Maggie Beer Barossa-based combination of water, sugar, verjuice together with wine cotto. Verjuice is an acidic juice of unripe grapes, spell wine cotto is some other grape-based production that seems almost alone to live Maggie's domain. We truly already owned some rarely-used Maggie Beer^TM verjuice together with I elected to substitute the wine cotto amongst balsamic vinegar.

The syrup ingredients sense of savor fabulous, all sweetness together with tangy together with hinting at the caramelised tart to come, but reducing them to ane 6th of their master copy book was unsafe business. I wasn't also concerned past times the flake of bubbling that went on during the outset xv minutes of reduction - it's simply speeding upward the evaporation, right? - but in ane lawsuit I lapsed into inattention it shifted rather speedily to burnt sugar. It wasn't hence much bubbling whatever to a greater extent than every bit fizzing together with expanding! Its colouring cloth was yet lovely but when the molten carbohydrate had cooled downwards plenty for a taste, this was ane of the most horrible, acrid things I've e'er sampled. I unhappily filled the saucepan amongst warm H2O together with the syrup stiffened into some sort of Poison Toffee, cemented stirring spoon together with all.

So I began again, this fourth dimension using a oestrus diffuser on the stove, never allowing the syrup to unleash a unmarried bubble. It took a lot longer together with I anxiously took the syrup off the oestrus when it yet had the book of near 3/4 of a loving cup (I should choose been aiming for 1/4 cup). This afterward proved to live the undoing of this upside-down tart, rendering the crust soggy together with impossible to flip inwards ane piece (see the 2d less glamourous photograph above).

While this tart turned out to live a lot of trouble, it was undeniably tasty. The pastry together with eggplant inwards item were out of this globe together with perfectly offset past times the goats' cheese. I'd sure consider making a variation on it in ane lawsuit again - maybe something amongst a blind-baked, right-way-round crust, double the eggplant together with one-half the leek, together with a sparing drizzle of verjuice together with balsamic vinegar. No syrup. Oh no, sure no syrup.

Maggie's burnished eggplant together with leek tart
(by Maggie Beer, every bit presented on the Cook together with the Chef)

pastry:
125g apparently flour
100g butter, cold
60mL sour cream

sugar syrup:
1/2 loving cup water
1/2 loving cup verjuice
1/2 loving cup sugar
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar

filling:
2 leeks, amongst the by together with large white business office sliced into 3cm cylinders
1/4 loving cup verjuice
1 large eggplant
olive oil
salt together with pepper, to taste
1 teaspoon chopped mint
1 tablespoon chopped lemon thyme

topping:
120g goats' cheese
2 tablespoons chopped mint

To brand the pastry, chop the butter into minor cubes. Place the flour together with butter inwards a nutrient processor, blending until they resemble breadcrumbs. Add the sour cream, a flake at a fourth dimension together with blending amongst each bit, until the dough begins to come upward together. Note that yous may non require to add together all of the sour cream (I didn't).

Tip the dough onto a lightly floured bench together with choose it together into a smoothen ball. Wrap the dough inwards plastic together with refrigerate it for at to the lowest degree xx minutes. If you're making the pastry good inwards advance, let it to residuum at room temperature for 15-20 minutes earlier trying to whorl it.

Next, brand the carbohydrate syrup. Stir together the sugar, H2O together with verjuice inwards a minor saucepan on low-medium heat. Gently bring down the mixture to near a 1/4 loving cup inwards volume, beingness careful non to burn downwards it. Stir through the balsamic vinegar together with laid the syrup aside.

Cut the eggplant into large chunks together with soak them inwards a large bowl of salted H2O for one-half an lx minutes or thereabouts; this volition preclude them from soaking upward also much oil.

This is a skillful fourth dimension to preheat the oven - aim for 180°C.

If yous choose an oven-proof frypan, this recipe volition at in ane lawsuit brand skillful role of it. Since nosotros don't, I used an ordinary frypan together with a pie dish. Heat some olive stone oil inwards your frypan together with add together the leek chunks; adjust them hence that the circular cutting sides are touching the pan. Cook them until they're golden brown, together with then flip them over until the other end's also golden brown. Transfer them to the pie dish together with bake them inwards the oven until they're simply tender. Take them out together with laid them aside; plough the oven upward to 200°C.

Drain the eggplant chunks together with plonk them inwards the frypan amongst a niggling extra oil. Brown them nicely on all sides, pour inwards the verjuice, together with move along to ready them until all the liquid has evaporated or been absorbed. Arrange the eggplant inwards the pie dish, interspersing the pieces amongst the leek. Sprinkle over the mint together with lemon thyme. Drizzle the lot amongst the carbohydrate syrup.

Roll out the pastry hence that it's a flake larger than the pie dish together with role it to embrace the tart filling, tucking the edges in. Bake the tart for 10 minutes, together with then bring down the oven temperature to 180°C together with bake for a farther 30-35 minutes. Allow the tart some fourth dimension to cool down. Flip it upside downwards onto a plate together with garnish it amongst dabs of goats' cheese together with a sprinkling of mint.

May 7-8, 2009: Chocolate Guinness Cake

Vicious Ange's blog roughly fourth dimension ago, though it's likewise latterly been made yesteryear Melbourne cooks Coby as well as all-time high.

An occasion for such a cake could non come upward whatever to a greater extent than perfect than our Fri nighttime lab get-together. The lovely Lady Jane invited us all (several dozen people) into her as lovely home. Though the garden is her pride as well as joy, the kitchen as well as living expanse - glowing golden from the fireplace - is an fifty-fifty improve environs to linger over nutrient as well as conversation (and bread baking) on a cool tumble night. There were to move iii enormous pots of soup, whatever give away of frail garnishes as well as baskets of crusty bread, followed yesteryear cheeses as well as fruit paste, ruddy wine-poached pears as well as cake. If anyone could concoct that cake, the concluding course of didactics of a comfort-food feast, I knew it was Nigella Lawson.

The exclusively flicker of doubtfulness was whether I was upward to the occupation of replicating that recipe. This 1 has a slap-up start, alongside the butter beingness melted into the Guinness rather than softened as well as beaten. Once the cocoa as well as saccharide were inward it tasted fabulous. The cocoa was lumpy, though, thus I sieved the mixture earlier stirring through the eggs as well as cream as well as (more strategically) sifting inward the dry out ingredients. This is when I got nervous. This is when I added four as well as a one-half teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda to the batter. Licking the bowl as the cake baked, I was getting a lot to a greater extent than of that cement-mixer bicarb flavor than I was chocolate. And no wonder because looking at the recipe at 1 time I should convey used exclusively one-half as much!

At the time, I only whipped upward the cream cheese icing, confirmed that it was awesome, as well as hoped that it'd mask whatever potential weirdness inward the cake. It seemed to. No else appeared to convey a work alongside the cake at all, though it was sure enough less dense as well as chocolatey than what other bloggers convey described. (I intend nosotros tin can safely lay that downwards to roughly of the cocoa beingness sifted out as well as my heinous abuse of ascent agents.) The crumb was around pleasant as well as the chocolate flavor had an interesting siltiness to it. The hosts seemed thrilled that I wanted to exit the leftovers alongside them (mind you, they are incredibly form as well as polite people).

This is without doubtfulness a wonderful cake to bake for a cosy nighttime inward alongside friends. It's thus skillful that y'all tin can utterly desecrate the recipe as well as however somehow earn generous praise. Praise move to Nigella!

Chocolate Guinness Cake
(by Nigella Lawson, available on her website)

cake:
250mL Guinness
250g butter
75g cocoa
400g castor sugar
1/2 loving cup sour cream
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
275g apparently flour
2 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

icing:
300g cream cheese
150g icing sugar
125mL double cream

Preheat the oven to 180°C as well as grease as well as draw a springform cake tin.

Gently rut the Guinness as well as butter inward a large saucepan until the butter has melted. Take the mixture off the rut as well as sift inward the cocoa as well as sugar, whisking to combine. In a pocket-sized bowl, rhythm out together the sour cream, eggs as well as vanilla, as well as thus stir them into the beer'n'butter saucepan. Sift as well as whisk inward the flour as well as bicarbonate of soda.

Pour the batter into the cake tin as well as bake for 45-60 minutes (use the skewer test). Leave the cake to cool inward the tin.

Prepare the icing exclusively when the cake is completely cool. Then rhythm out the cream cheese until smooth, sift as well as rhythm out inward the icing sugar, as well as thus in conclusion rhythm out inward the cream. Continue beating until the mixture is low-cal as well as fluffy.

Transfer the cake to a serving plate as well as slather on the icing.

May 10, 2009: Mixed Business

Mitte was on the fringe of Clifton Hill, in addition to this week's Lord's Day morn feast was at Mixed Business all the agency across on Queen's Parade. Mixed Business has been steadily accumulating across the internet, in addition to thus it wasn't difficult to convince Mike in addition to Jo to reckon us at that spot in addition to help us cheque it out for ourselves.

It's a beautiful house for brekkie - all lite in addition to space, amongst unopen to fashionable touches (it's difficult to larn incorrect amongst a giant sign promsing 'chips in addition to gravy' on the wall). The tables are good spread out, which makes for a to a greater extent than relaxing repast than unopen to of the to a greater extent than densely packed cafes. Partly because of the infinite (plenty of stroller room y'see), Mixed Business is a striking amongst the trendy parents of Clifton Hill. When nosotros arrived merely earlier ix it was to a greater extent than creche than cafe, amongst babies in addition to toddlers every bit far every bit the oculus could see. As the morn progressed, the bright-eyed parents were gradually replaced past times unopen to of the slower starting residents, but regardless the room is big in addition to opened upward plenty that things don't larn also hectic or noisy.

The much raved near java was quick to arrive, but a niggling on the weak side for my taste. Sure I ordered a second, but it was to a greater extent than near ensuring I was getting plenty caffeine than near the flavour. Still, it got my eyes opened upward plenty to cheque out the menu. The chalkboard is amount of interesting options - a few variations on poached eggs, unopen to delicious sounding beans in addition to a reasonable selection of sweetness treats.

I spent a proficient patch considering the baked beans, but inward the terminate the lure of poached eggs ($13) was also strong. These came amongst a Irish Gaelic patato in addition to rosemary rosti, avocado in addition to household bask in addition to were utterly delicious. I've had a few mediocre roestis inward the past times - also gluggy in addition to bland, but this was light, well-cooked in addition to had plenty flavor to last delicious on its own, non merely every bit society for the perfectly poached eggs in addition to generous serve of ripe avocado. The Lycopersicon esculentum bask in addition to lemon added a chip of zing, in addition to the toast (Dench's I believe) was divine. Outstanding.

Cindy chose something she knew I wouldn't endeavor to pocket - a banana separate (with caramelised on brioche amongst nutmeg pecans in addition to yoghurt - $10.50). It was pretty heavily slathered inward caramel sauce, but the brioched provided a chip of remainder in addition to I didn't take away heed whatever complaints near the sweetness bananas or yoghurt on top. It seemed a pop choice, in addition to thus those of you lot without weird banana issues should likely laissez passer on it a try.

There's a lot to similar near Mixed Business - swell food, proficient service in addition to a relaxing space. I wasn't wowed past times the coffee, but others accept raved, in addition to thus it may merely last my lack of connoisseur-dom.

Address: 486 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill
Ph: 94861606
Unlicensed
Price: $5-$13

May 10, 2009: Believe-It-Or-Not Broccoli Burgers

a positive review as well as pic of a crispy-golden patty from Johanna is the sort of affair that tin give notice convey me around. They didn't larn off to a rollicking start; I temporarily forgot the breadcrumbs, as well as and hence fifty-fifty when they were stirred through, the patty mix Would. Not. Hold. Together. I persevered, as well as was happy to uncovering that afterwards xx minutes inwards the oven these patties were developing a handsome golden crust as well as were alone flippable.

May 11, 2009: Shredded Brussels Sprouts Together With Smoked Tofu Salad

Cindy has a pocket-size stash of recipes she's tagged every bit somehow autumn-y, as well as thus amongst the warmth good as well as really gone for the year, she's started pulling them out. This calendar week it was tofu as well as brussels sprout salad courtesy of Heidi from 101 Cookbooks.

We used merely about smoked tofu (amazingly available from the novel Coles on Johnston Street) every bit the centrepiece of ours, as well as were both pretty impressed yesteryear its texture as well as flavor (we'd never tried it before). Once you've shredded the sprouts, this whole dish comes together pretty quickly. It was all tasty but I was a footling underwhelmed. I intend our sprouts were yesteryear their best, as well as this dish is all close the sprouts - the other flavours (tofu, maple syrup, apple tree as well as pino nuts) are fine but without awesome sprouts you're going to halt upwardly a chip disappointed. We've enjoyed sprout-centric dishes before, as well as thus nosotros may stimulate this in ane lawsuit again when nosotros tin selection upwardly our sprouts from somewhere other than the supermarket.


Shredded brussels sprouts as well as smoked tofu salad
(based on a dish at 101 Cookbooks)

2 fuji apples, cutting into bite-sized wedges
juice of ane lemon
200 smoked tofu, chopped into pocket-size cubes
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/3 loving cup pino nuts, toasted as well as chopped
1 tablespoon golden syrup
350 grams brussels sprouts, shredded
salt
olive oil

In a bowl, embrace the apple tree slices amongst H2O as well as the lemon juice.

Heat the fossil oil inwards a pan, as well as nipper the tofu amongst a pinch of common salt for a few minutes, until it starts to dark-brown up. Stir inwards the garlic as well as maple syrup as well as ready for a infinitesimal or two.

Drain the apples as well as add together them to the pan, cooking for a brace of minutes. Once they're done, scrape the mixture out into a bowl as well as laid aside.

Add a chip to a greater extent than fossil oil as well as a pinch of common salt to the pan as well as nipper the brussels sprouts for a brace of minutes, stirring constantly. When the sprouts are going a footling chip golden, add together inwards the apple/tofu mix as well as the pino nuts, stir it all together as well as serve at in ane lawsuit away.

May 13, 2009: The Cheesy Tuna Bake That Isn't

her ain take on the vegan tuna bake. The matter almost this tuna bake is that it requires mock tuna, together with that's hard to come upwards by. Enter Kristy - she together with I would likely never induce got met if it weren't for our respective nutrient blogs. Kristy invited me on a weekend expedition to Footscray, together with Vincent Vegetarian Food Mart inwards particular, where I picked upwards about real orangish but very tasty mock tuna:

The 3rd ready of contributors are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than unlikely - a Helsinki-based vegan couple that I've never fifty-fifty met. Their lasagne recipe ranks amid the best that Michael together with I induce got always eaten, together with its white sauce was my selection for this bake. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 terminal nod is due to Lolo of her ain take on the vegan tuna bake. The matter almost this tuna bake is that it requires mock tuna, together with that's hard to come upwards by. Enter Kristy - she together with I would likely never induce got met if it weren't for our respective nutrient blogs. Kristy invited me on a weekend expedition to Footscray, together with Vincent Vegetarian Food Mart inwards particular, where I picked upwards about real orangish but very tasty mock tuna:

The 3rd ready of contributors are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than unlikely - a Helsinki-based vegan couple that I've never fifty-fifty met. Their terrific lasagne rolls of late convinced me that a vegan-friendly crunchy breadcrumb topping tin sack survive at to the lowest degree equally skillful equally melted cheese.

I don't intend I tin sack print on you lot also forcefully but how groovy the resulting cheesy tuna bake is. The 'tuna' is perfectly squidgy together with salty. This dish volition happily adapt your lamentable leftover vegetables (broccoli together with tomato, inwards our case), cooking them until tender together with surrounding them inwards a sauce hence smooth, creamy together with savoury that the absence of cheese is hard to believe. Some grated Cheezly adds to the effect, but isn't necessary inwards my opinion. What's to a greater extent than of import is a generous sprinkling of breadcrumbs, baked until golden together with crisp.

I don't intend comfort food, or community food, gets much meliorate than this.

The cheesy tuna pasta bake that isn't
(a spectacular together with unwitting collaboration from vegan melbourne, kblog, Tofu for Two together with VeganYumYum)

375g pasta spirals
1/2 loving cup breadcrumbs
small caput of broccoli, chopped into chunks
1 tomato, diced
1 modest cherry capsicum, diced
200g vegan tuna (from Vincent Vegetarian Food Mart)
100g Edam manner super melting Cheezly, grated (optional)

creamy cashew sauce:
2/3 loving cup cashews
2 2/3 cups oat milk
2 tablespoons Nuttelex
1/6 loving cup manifestly flour
1/6 loving cup savoury yeast flakes
2/3 teaspoon solid set down pepper
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2/3 teaspoon salt

Bring a large pot of salted H2O to the boil, add together the pasta, together with produce until done to your liking.

Meanwhile blend upwards the breadcrumbs, chop the veges together with larn going on the cashew cream sauce. Put the cashews inwards a nutrient processor, blending them to powder, together with then add together 1/4 loving cup of the oat milk together with blend to a polish paste.

In a smallish saucepan, melt the Nuttelex together with and then whisk inwards the flour. Whisk together with youngster for a few minutes, together with then gradually whisk inwards the remaining oat milk. Get equally polish a sauce equally you lot can. Bring the sauce to the boil together with simmer it until thickened. Stir through the cashew glue together with yeast flakes, together with then flavor the sauce together with stir inwards the lemon juice.

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Once the pasta is cooked together with drained, tip it into a large casserole dish. Scatter the broccoli, tomato plant together with capsicum over the top. Tear the tuna into modest chunks together with scatter them over the top, too. Gently combine the pasta, veges together with tuna together until they're all evenly distributed, together with then crease through the creamy cashew sauce. Sprinkle over the grated Cheezly together with the breadcrumbs. Bake until the operate past times is crisp together with golden, almost twenty minutes.

May 15, 2009: Leftover Makeover - Paprikash Pies

mushroom paprikash. Not fifty-fifty bothering to crusade those disastrous dumplings as well as skipping the Sanitarium seitan, I decided this fourth dimension to augment the mushrooms as well as onion amongst around zucchini as well as capsicum. Spooned over couscous, Michael as well as I liked this version fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than nosotros remembered enjoying it the starting fourth dimension time around. The porcini mushroom stock may bring helped!

There was a lot of leftovers as well as I sealed around of them upwards inward lilliputian puff pastry pies, served amongst a side of Brussels sprouts. While I know they don't expect especially pretty or impressive, they are remarkably tasty. My tip is that you'll honor mushroom paprikash as well as paprikash pies appearing on Old Favourites We're Eating This Week a dyad of times to a greater extent than earlier winter's done.

May 17, 2009: Buddha's Hateful Solar Daytime & Multicultural Festival

blogged the festival food. Last twelvemonth Michael too I were out of town when the festival rolled merely about too I enviously read to a greater extent than almost the nutrient from Kristy too Buttons. Finally, this year, Michael too I got ourselves to the festival too having skipped breakfast, nosotros couldn't hold off to striking the stalls. Though they're operated past times exclusively 2 or 3 organisations, the book of deep-fried too faux-meaty goodness is pretty amazing - barbecued corn, turnip cakes, deep-fried sushi too bread, curry puffs too saltation rolls, veg oysters too squid, steamed buns, noodles, soup too mucilaginous rice... these are the things nosotros ultimately didn't detect room for!

Las Vegan crew, or larn how to brand roti too simulated meats past times hand, similar the ones nosotros enjoyed from the stalls. How almost some East Asian Buddhist cooking?

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed our outing to the Buddha's Day too Multicultural Festival; I'll hold off frontward to stopping past times for a lunchtime feast side past times side year. In the meantime, I'll hold out thankful for the many Melbourne cafes too restaurants who know their materials too tin sell me a vivid vegetarian repast whatever fourth dimension I desire it.

May 17, 2009: 'Tuna' Patties Too Tropical 'Slaw

the cheesy tuna bake that wasn't. However, equally the baking dish filled upwards amongst ingredients, I was really happy to reserve the 2d one-half of the bundle for around other recipe: Kristy's 'tuna' patties. She made these, to groovy acclaim, for a potluck that I was unable to attend as well as I was keen to gustation them for myself. I made a duo of substitutions - using chopped jump onions, mint as well as a lilliputian grated carrot for the vegetable component, as well as seasoning my white sauce amongst solely the chicken-style stock powder. Though the white sauce was a lilliputian pasty inwards texture, I loved its flavour! I volition accept to notice other ways to brand purpose of it.

I institute the patty mixture besides moist to roll, exactly, but somehow I managed to instruct those globs into the breadcrumbs (rice crumbs, actually!) as well as so a hot, oily frypan. Though a lilliputian fragile, these patties were a groovy success inwards this kitchen too, earning high praise from Michael.

The patties' salady side is around other blog-sourced recipe that features an unusal ingredient: coconut oil. I previously baked a couple of biscuit recipes that suggested its use, though I resorted to option fats. I'll hold upwards interested to brand them in i trial to a greater extent than amongst the recommended kokosnoot oil. It lends a fantastic gustation as well as texture to the dressing of this 'slaw (which I institute at a few great 'slaw recipes nether my belt, I'm a lot to a greater extent than enthusiastic. The solely affair that could amend this i is the purpose of around spunky cherry-red cabbage, equally suggested inwards the master recipe.

'Tuna' patties
(based on a recipe at kblog)

1 tablespoon Nuttelex
1 tablespoon evidently flour
1 teaspoon chicken-style stock powder
3/4 loving cup oat milk
150g vege tuna, coarsely shredded
1/2 loving cup grated carrot
4 jump onions, finely chopped
a dozen torn mint leaves
100g 28 Cooks, which itself is based on a recipe at Daily Raw Cafe)

1/2 loving cup almonds
1/4 loving cup kokosnoot oil
1 tablespoon golden syrup
zest as well as juice of i lime
1 teaspoon minced ginger
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tablespoon chilli flakes
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 cups cabbage, finely shredded
1 loving cup grated carrot
1 tablespoon fresh mint, minced
1 tablespoon fresh coriander, minced

Grind the almonds to repast inwards a nutrient processor. Add the kokosnoot oil, syrup, lime zest as well as juice, ginger, garlic, chilli as well as salt, so procedure the lot until yous accept a smoothen dressing.

Fold together the remaining ingredients inwards a large bowl, so stir through the dressing. Allow the 'slaw to remainder inwards the refrigerator as well as allow the flavours develop, for anywhere betwixt an sixty minutes as well as a day.

March 4, 2007: Indian-Style Lemonade

my Indian dinner as well as for reasons that volition popular off apparent afterwards my adjacent post, I wasn't upward for making dessert. Instead I pulled out this recipe for Indian-style lemonade, which I outset tried a few years ago. The authenticity of it is questionable: the a super-b*tch amongst diarrhoea for its duration.

Indian-style lemonade
makes four pocket-size cups

Combine

• 1 L water
• 1/4 loving cup fresh lime juice
• 1/3 loving cup fresh lemon juice
• 2/3 loving cup maple syrup (or a syrup of 1/3 loving cup brownish carbohydrate as well as 1/3 loving cup water)
• a generous sprinkle of solid soil ginger
• the tiniest milk shiver of cayenne pepper

in a bowl amongst an easy-pouring lip, or a jug. Pour into spectacles as well as garnish amongst H2O ice as well as lemon as well as lime slices.