Mediterranean fish [20 Sep 2004|09:21pm] ophelia_complex You need: Fresh fish (lemon sole or cod) 1 red onion 1 red pepper 1 green pepper black or green olives mushrooms 1 lemon 1 lime extra virgin olive oil garlic You do: finely chop the onion and peppers, warm them through in the olive oil in a medium sized pot for a few minutes. add the musroooms, crushed garlic, juice of half a lime and half a lemon and continue to cook on the hob for a few extra minutes. make a sauce/drizzle for the fish by mixing olive oil with more crushed garlic and the juice of the remaining half lime and lemon put the cooked veg on the bottom of a large enough casserole dish, sprinkle some olives over the top, place the fish on top of the veg and pour the sauce/drizzle over the fish. Cover the dish with tin foil and bake in the oven for as long as required (which is about 15 minutes to be safe). This is lovely served with a baked potato, which can be microwaved while the veg is cooking (7 mins for 2 small potatoes), then finished off in the oven for 15 minutes with the fish. Quick, easy and healthy! post comment

Recommendations [23 Aug 2004|03:29pm] gingiber HI All I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good vegan cookbook. I have seen a couple which look nice vegan planet or new vegan, but I thought I would ask if there are any books out there that people have found really great. Cheers 2 comments|post comment

Pasta Arrabiata [02 Jun 2004|02:47pm] ishkhara 1 tsp dried, crushed red chillies 6 garlic cloves, finely chopped 3 tbsp olive oil 1 cup passata 12 oz pasta of your choice Freshly ground black pepper 3 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped Warm the chillies and the garlic in the olive oil until the oil is fragrant. Add the passata and black pepper to taste. Cook for 5 to 10 minutes. Whilst the sauce is cooking boil the pasta in lighlty salted water according to the instructions. When both are ready toss the pasta together with the sauce and serve sprinkled with parsley. (Those of us who aren't veggie could also add chopped, cooked bacon or sun-dried tomatoes to the sauce. In fact you could add pretty much anything, I suppose!) post comment

New community! [11 Apr 2004|05:22pm] la_sherazade Hello, everyone, and Happy Easter! I would like to introduce my brand-new community, Food Snob . It's a community for anyone interested in fine food, gourmet treats, food writing, the history of food, etc... All are welcome. Please check it out! post comment

Chocolate Chip Cookies [31 Mar 2004|11:28am] ishkhara Makes about 20 cookies:  125g soft butter  180g muscovado sugar  1 tsp vanilla extract  225g self-raising flour  pinch of salt  350g of your favourite chocolate, roughly chopped or chocolate chips  2 eggs  handful of nuts, such as hazelnuts, macadamia, almonds (optional)  splash of milk, if necessary Beat the butter with the sugar until pale and soft. Add the remaining ingredients, with a splash of milk if the dough does not stick together. Put large spoonfuls of the mixture (no need to spread it out) onto an oiled baking sheet and bake at gas mark 4 / 180 degrees C / 350 degrees F for 12 minutes, when the cookies should be tinged brown. Cool for 5 minutes to harden a little. post comment

I missed this [27 Feb 2004|02:59pm] gingiber [ mood | excited ] So just in case anyone else has - oh my god vegan marshmallows: October 24, 2003 Vegan Marshmallows Are Now Being Sold! I'm thrilled to announce that vegan marshmallows are now back in commercial production! After over five years without any company manufacturing vegetarian marshmallows, this is really good news. The marshmallows are available from two different companies. At Vegan Essentials, you can order large, rectangular marshmallows that look rather like gourmet (non-veg) ones I've seen in the Williams-Sonoma catalog. At Pangea, they have smaller marshmallows that are somewhere between the Jet-Puf type and mini marshmallows. The bad news is both kinds are sold out at the moment. But, if you're like me, that won't stop you from ordering now so they'll arrive at your doorstep at the earliest possible moment. The only question for me right now is how many bags to order...? 2 comments|post comment

Healthy living never looked so good. [17 Feb 2004|10:08am] ishkhara This may especially interest pipistrelle... :) SAVONA, Natalie. The Big book of juices and smoothies. 365 Natural blends for health and vitality everyday. London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 1-904292-23-2 Available to buy here. 2 comments|post comment

[06 Jan 2004|03:40pm] purpledonna [ music | ~Depeche Mode~The Bottom Line~ ] YUMMMMM!!! I just made roasted parsnip & carrot soup and home-made bread with millions of different seeds & nuts in it, (well, ok, the bread maker machine made it, not me). It was sooooo yum!!!! Will put a pic up if ya like? xxx 5 comments|post comment

Mashed Potatos?! [18 Nov 2003|04:42pm] greeklady [ mood | accomplished ] I thought this may be appropriate in this community. I know you are thinking, mashed potatoes??!! What is up with that? But I have the secret to gothy potatoes. I saw these potatoes at the Zonottos market in Santa Cruz and at the local farmers markets but since it is winter, maybe you can request it at your local stores. Black potatoes!! (Purple Congo is the name of one variety of them.) They taste better than the standard russet but looks like a big red potato. They are a dark purple in color inside and out. When you mash them they turn to a nice lighter purple color. I have used them for just about every potato dish aside from curry. It is just something fun to twist your noodle around and scared my mother in law which is always a bonus for me. Happy purple potato hunting! Here is a link to go look at what the color is like of these potatoes! Blue Potato! post comment

Bat shaped pancakes! [07 Nov 2003|04:01pm] danarama Halloween morning I cooked bat-shaped pancakes! It's easy! Just load a portion of your pancake BATter into a ziplock baggy and snip a small hole in one of the corners -- or use a cake decorator's icing bag. Then squeeze the baggy to draw the outline of the bat (or heart, or cross, or coffin, or whatever) on the pan/griddle. Next, fill in the outline by carefully spooning in additional pancake BATter (preferrably thinned). The previously drawn outline will have already set up, thus containing the filled-in BATter. For even more fun, add two blueberry eyes! When the BATter begins to bubble, flip the BATcake and brown the other side. It takes some practice (this was my first attempt) and a pinch of artistic skill, but it's a fun way to add gothiness to your breakfast! Bone appetite! post comment

Griddled Langoustines [20 Oct 2003|01:46pm] ishkhara To serve four: 20 fresh langoustines 3 tbsp sunflower oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper Zest and juice of two lemons 4 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed Handful of tarragon leaves Heat a griddle pan to smoking. Brush each langoustine with oil and season with black pepper. Add to griddle pan in a single layer. Sprinkle over lemon zest, garlic and tarragon. Cook for around five minutes, depending on size, turning once. Transfer to a serving platter, squeeze over lemon juice and sprinkle with salt to serve. Mmmmm! :) 5 comments|post comment

Mmmm...fishy! [24 Sep 2003|12:14pm] ishkhara [ mood | lethargic ] Think Colin might like this one! ;) ( White Fish in Cider Sauce ) post comment

One for the non-veggies among us ;) [22 Sep 2003|06:17pm] ishkhara [ mood | hungry ] I came across this recipe and thought it sounded yummy! :) ( Lobster with Red Wine Risotto ) post comment

mexican goodness [05 Sep 2003|01:06pm] pipistrelle [ mood | productive ] i'm cooking a slap-up mexican meal for my family today. recipes below: ( quesadillas ) ( salsa verde ) ( guacamole ) i'm also doing refried beans with this, but those come from a tin! post comment

Vegan recipes [04 Sep 2003|02:57pm] ishkhara [ mood | busy ] I came across these sites and thought of the lovely purpledonna: The Vegan Chef - A fab 'chocolate' pudding recipe and bitchin' cocktails! :D VegWeb.com - Vegan Recipes - Wide range to suit all tastes. Vitalita Culinary Group - Free vegan cookbooks which you can download! 4 comments|post comment

Cocktails! :D [03 Sep 2003|04:06pm] ishkhara ( How to mix the perfect Bloody Mary...and more! ) 3 comments|post comment

mead recipes! [03 Sep 2003|02:29pm] pipistrelle [ mood | optimistic ] [ music | the adicts- love sucks ] mead instructions even i can possibly follow... sadly it seems to take at least 90 days to make any of them so obviously i can't manage before whitby :( but making mead looks decidedly more feasible than making beer. i've made whitecider once and that wasn't too hard, so i'm sure if i put my mind to it i could make some nice drink! post comment

[02 Sep 2003|05:59pm] purpledonna [ mood | ~55 days until DAVE~ ] [ music | ~Dave Gahan~I Need You~Ladytron Mix~ ] ( indian rice with spinach and cashoos ) 13 comments|post comment

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