January 13, 2008: Morsels For The Moonlight Cinema

Between Cindy's network of expat-Brisbanites too my stash of $10 tickets, nosotros rounded upward quite a gang for a Lord's Day eve at the previous dip-focussed picnic food, I decided to repeat the performance. This fourth dimension I flicked through our cookbooks rather than Cindy's bookmarks, too came across a dyad of relatively slow too tasty-looking choices.

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2 chopped bound onions
salt too pepper

Stick everything inwards the nutrient processor too whiz until combined. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 splash of olive crude oil in all likelihood wouldn't hurt, if the texture is a picayune dry, but is otherwise unnecessary. And that's it, you've got your get-go dip.


Beetroot hummus

500g beetroot
1/3 loving cup olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 tablespoon solid soil cumin
410g tin of chickpeas, drained
1 tablespoon tahini
1/3 loving cup plainly yoghurt
3 garlic cloves, crushed
1/4 loving cup lemon juice
1/2 loving cup vegie stock

Scrub the beetroot too boil inwards a large pot of H2O for most xl minutes, until they're overnice too soft. Drain them too allow them cool for piece too and then peel (the peel should come upward off actually easily).

Meanwhile, estrus 1 tablespoon of the crude oil inwards a tiddler pan too ready the onions for most 5 minutes. Add inwards the cumin too stir it through, cooking for unopen to other infinitesimal or so.

Chop the peeled beetroot into manageable chunks too house it inwards the nutrient processor alongside all of your ingredients except for the oil. Whiz everything together until it's a smoothen paste. Pour the olive crude oil inwards alongside the processor nevertheless whizzing and, in i lawsuit everything is combined, you've got yourself a giant, pinkish mush ready for dipping.

October 8, 2007: Creamy Cabbage

Williamstown, I gamely invested inwards a novel cookbook. I enjoin 'gamely' because, dissimilar many nutrient bloggers, I'm trying non to amass likewise large a collection of cookbooks. (I'm a rebel inwards a long menage unit of measurement describe of piece of occupation of hoarders too experience guilty nearly owning anything that I don't truly brand purpose of.) Besides, you lot may bring noticed that the novel dishes nosotros develop at habitation are to a greater extent than oftentimes inspired past times TOFWD. This creamy cabbage was fifty-fifty tastier than I hoped - the gentle cooking toned downwards a texture that tin survive rubbery when raw, too the flavor was really savoury too buttery. Michael too I enjoyed this therefore much that nosotros ate the leftovers alongside unproblematic former toast the dark after.

Creamy cabbage

1 tablespoon oil
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 teaspoons dark mustard seeds
2 leeks, sliced thinly
500g cabbage, sliced thinly
juice of one-half a lemon
5 tablespoons cream or creme fraiche
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
salt too pepper

In a large frypan, oestrus the crude too butter, therefore add together the mustard seeds too laid until they pop. Add the leeks too laid them until softened, nearly five minutes. Add the cabbage, plough the oestrus downwards to low, too laid for a farther iv minutes until it, too, has softened.

Season the mix alongside common salt too pepper, add together the lemon juice too cream, therefore laid for a infinitesimal more. Finally, add together the parsley too serve.