March 6, 2007: Gertrude Street Grub - Roundhouse Roti

failed attempt, I was pretty keen to larn stuck into merely about delicious curry in addition to fried bread. Roundhouse Roti is attached to Rose Chong's costume shop (this calendar week amongst merely about assort of bizarre skeleton marriage ceremony display inwards the window) in addition to is a fairly tiny shop. The kitchen is opened upward in addition to takes upward most of the room, leaving infinite for i large communal tabular array in addition to a yoke of smaller booths. There are a handful of tables out on the footpath and, amongst Melbourne finally turning inwards a mild, sunny hateful solar daytime instead of ridiculous heat, that's where I settled in.

The card is pretty small, amongst alone 2 existent roti-style dishes (flaky fried breadstuff combined amongst a saucy curry for dipping) in addition to a few dishes that are basically roti toasted sandwiches. The vego options are the roti dhal, or a roti filled amongst spinach in addition to feta (I'm ignoring the sugariness options, equally I didn't actually await at them). I had to larn amongst the roti dhal - there's goose egg quite similar fierce roti breadstuff apart amongst your hands in addition to sprinkling it into a saucy curry. The dhal was quite tasty - total of vegetables (lots of corn surprisingly) in addition to merely a hint of spice. But the existent fundamental to this repast (and indeed to the shop) is the bread: fried fresh in addition to delectably flaky, amongst a few moist in addition to chewy bits towards the middle. The alone slight electrical load I'd conduct maintain is the texture of the dhal - I'd actually prefer something a chip runnier in addition to total of sauce - the in conclusion few bits of breadstuff didn't conduct maintain much sauce to soak up. Still, at merely $6.50, it's a quick, delicious in addition to proficient value luncheon treat.

Updated (29/6/09):Roundhouse Roti unopen 'briefly' almost a yr ago, in addition to nonetheless shows no sign of reopening. I've given upward on it equally a luncheon venue for now.

Update (21/10/09): As noted yesteryear Fitzroyalty below, Roundhouse Roti is dorsum inwards business!

Update (22/11/10): Roundhouse has, in i lawsuit again, closed.

Address: 220 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Ph: 9417 4285
Price: $6.50 - $7.50
Unlicensed
Website: www.roundhouseroti.com.au

A Vegetable Meme

Neil from tagged us for a vegetable-themed meme!

1. Is at that topographic point a vegetable you lot hated every bit a child, but came to honey every bit you lot got older?

Cindy: The mushroom. I didn't desire to impact the spongy fungus every bit a kid, together with I wasn't pressured to yesteryear my parents. As a teenager I grew to relish steak amongst mushroom gravy together with at in 1 lawsuit every bit a vegetarian inwards my twenties, I am totally hooked on the earthy, concentrated season of cooked mushrooms. I nonetheless don't similar them raw, though!

Michael: I could likely enjoin mushrooms every bit well, but I'll mix things upward together with become amongst spinach. When I was little, Mum would occasionally endeavour to strength us kids to consume boiled upward spinach mush amongst our sausages. I especially retrieve sitting at the tabular array 1 black for hours merely picking at my soggy pile of greenery. These days (as Cindy mentions below), it's something nosotros consume all the time. I'd enjoin that Indian nutrient likely got me interested - Palak Paneer together with the like.

2. Most underrated vegetable?

Cindy: I mean value nosotros role a lot to a greater extent than spinach than the average household, especially babe spinach leaves. As a salad base, sauteed inwards olive crude every bit a side, stuffed into burgers together with sandwiches, sometimes inwards spanakopita, a soup or a curry. It's my favourite agency to consume my greens.

Michael: I don't actually know how to respond this - who rates vegetables? I volition enjoin that I'm constantly amazed than anyone would prefer cauliflower to broccoli though. Weirdos.

Cindy: (Um, that's me he's refering to.)

3. Name 1 favourite summertime vegetable dish.

Cindy: Wholemeal crackers spread amongst Michael's home-made pesto together with slices of flavoursome blood-red tomato. But I don't honour actually adept tomatoes every bit ofttimes every bit I would like.

Michael: Some variety of salad likely - mayhap the green edible bean together with radish 1 that we've been making a fair chip lately.

4. And 1 for winter?

Cindy: I'm a suburban daughter who loves greasy potatoes. In wintertime nosotros consume multiple roasting trays total of Irish Gaelic patato chunks, baked amongst olive oil, tabular array salt together with pepper.

Michael: Any variety of spicy vegetable curry warms my oculus on mutual frigidity wintertime nights. It's difficult to become yesteryear a creamy pumpkin soup either (I've merely trawled the archives - how convey nosotros non made a pumpkin soup since nosotros moved here?)

5. What vegetables are inwards your refrigerator together with freezer correct now?

Cindy: This I tin respond for both of us! Baby spinach leaves, mushrooms, cabbage, together with a leftover salad lunchbox of tomato, carrot, lettuce together with cucumber. We are wretched planners together with frequent shoppers, thus our refrigerator rarely contains much to a greater extent than than what nosotros require for our side yesteryear side meal.

6. Is at that topographic point a vegetable you lot actually similar but don't brand much yourself?

Cindy: Beetroot. Like many Aussies, I grew upward oblivious to all beetroot except the canned materials on Grandma's tabular array at Dominicus tiffin (right side yesteryear side to the canned corn kernels *shudder*). But a few years agone I experienced an epiphany inwards the degree of grated fresh beetroot inwards a wrap. Since thus I've also sampled the delicious really Swedish roasted beetroot. Maybe this wintertime I'll sew the courage to brand borscht!

Michael: I've enjoyed radishes inwards that salad mentioned above, but I mean value that's the entirely fourth dimension we've used them. We're likely non every bit adventurous every bit nosotros should endure when it comes to foreign vegetables.

Cindy: Tag time! I nominate:

Another Outspoken Female from here);
Ellie from here);
and thus 2 Mebourne nutrient bloggers that I've entirely merely discovered inwards the final month:
Melinda from here); and
Truffle from here).

Of class everyone else is welcome to bring together inwards too! Leave a comment amongst your answers, or a link to your weblog if you lot direct to write them there.

March 7, 2007: Chinese-Style Barbeque Sauce

non-sausage rolls that I made for dinner on Wed night. Usually Michael slathers his amongst chilli sauce, piece I become for the to a greater extent than conventional Heinz tomato. But this fourth dimension nosotros position together roughly Chinese-style barbeque sauce from our Moosewood cookbook. With both tomato plant together with chilli pastes involved it's something of a compromise sauce, but it's a compromise where nosotros both gain to a greater extent than than nosotros sacrifice: it's sweet, salty, hot together with tangy inwards almost equal parts. As good equally pouring it on the green pies, sausages together with burgers, I visit this mightiness brand a skilful tofu marinade.

March 8, 2007: Thai Carrot Together With Ginger Soup

this one. It actually is really slow to brand - chop a few carrots together with an onion up, grate a flake of ginger together with musical rhythm roughly garlic together with you're basically done. Cindy chipped inwards amongst roughly grilled staff of life chips every bit an accompaniment together with nosotros had ourselves an enjoyable meal. The kokosnoot milk together with ginger give the soup a Thai flavour, field the cumin adds a hint of warmth (only a hint though, despite the fact that I accidentally tipped inwards nearly 4 times the recommended amount). It didn't run quite thus good at room temperature for luncheon the adjacent day, but that's belike a failing of soups inwards general.

Thai carrot together with ginger soup
(based on a recipe from 28 Cooks)

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, diced
4 cups diced carrot
3 cloves garlic, minced
1L vegetable stock
1 x 400mL tin kokosnoot milk
1 teaspoon cumin
4cm slice fresh ginger, peeled together with grated

Heat the crude inwards a large saucepan; add together the onion together with create for a minute. Add the carrots together with garlic together with create for roughly other v minutes. Add the stock together with select it to the boil, thus add together the remaining ingredients. Turn the oestrus down, encompass the saucepan, together with simmer the soup for 10-15 minutes. Use a mitt blender or nutrient processor to puree the soup (you'll necessitate to produce it inwards several modest batches if you're using a nutrient processor).

March 10, 2007: A Home-Cooked Breakfast

bbq sauce together with toast. (Michael had a yoke of fried eggs, too.) All ingredients were fortuitously inward the house, except for the fresh loaf of sundried love apple tree together with herb staff of life - simply picking it upwards gave Michael an excuse to fetch a newspaper together with a coffee, anyway.

This was our offset lawsuit of Vegideli construct sage together with marjoram sausages, which are imported from the U.K. together with sold at Allergy Block. (Unfortunately I can't think how much I paid for them, I intend it was $5 - vii for a 295g pack of eight smallish sausages.) I'm pretty picky amongst my vege sausages together with I see these powerfulness last the best I've always found! Much less rubbery than tofu ones, simply they concur together ameliorate than the chickpea together with vege ones that nosotros commonly purchase from Safeway. Maybe I'm delusional, simply I see they olfactory holding a piddling similar the KFC undercover recipe (my guiltiest pleasance inward my previous life every mo an omnivore).