Mediterranean chickpea and kale soup
This is just one of my many variations on onion-tomato-legumes-greens. The base recipe is just those four ingredients, and you can vary the beans (chickpeas, lentils, cannellini, borlotti) and the greens (spinach, chard, silverbeet, kale), not to mention the texture and what it’s served with, to make endless variations on a meal that is almost...
Fennel and orange salad
No photo for this one, alas. Just noting it to keep track of what I’ve been eating and cooking. Fennel and oranges are very much in season at present, so this is the perfect salad for this time of year. 1/2 bulb fennel, very thinly sliced 1 orange, peel and pith removed, quartered, and sliced...
Homemade muesli
According to my (shiny! new!) housemate, muesli is very hip these days. Well, I was into it before it was cool. If that makes me a muesli hipster, so be it. I mentioned a shiny new housemate. Actually I have two of them. I recently moved back to Australia and into a house with two...
Grounded (free scarf pattern)
I was on vacation and stopped by a yarn store (as you do). This Spud and Chloe yarn called to me. I wanted something with a bit of a vintage feel, easy enough to knit on the go without needing to carry a pattern with me. The result was “Grounded”, a simple lace scarf with...
Chickpea, pumpkin, and Israeli couscous stew
This is my entry for Presto Pasta Nights, hosted this week by Chaya at Sweet & Savory. I make a variation of this vegetarian, North-African-inspired stew quite often, but this time it’s a little different because I decided to add Israeli couscous directly to the mix to make a one-dish meal. Unlike the better-known tiny...
Apple-oat crumble
Breakfast is hard for me. For some reason I have trouble getting moving in the morning and I really don’t want to eat at that time. So it’s good if I can have something in the fridge that’s tasty and that I can just grab. 8 granny smith apples 1 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup...
Tin/Label OTP!
I keep meaning to take photos of my awesome pantry, but to be honest it’s a bit disorganised at the moment. All except for the spice and tea shelves, which I tidied up yesterday. These are my spices. I mostly buy them in bulk at Rainbow (a local natural food co-op) and put them in...
Uses for leftover bits of Kureyon
I’m making a Lizard Ridge blanket out of Noro Kureyon, and the result is I’ve got a bag full of odds and ends of yarn, not quite enough to make another square, but too much to throw out. A couple of weeks ago I sat down and made some random stuff out of these leftover...
My take on cauliflower cheese
I could have sworn I’d blogged this before, but my tags say not. (ETA: apparently I did, but mis-spelled cauliflower in the tags. *headdesk*) When I was a kid we used to have this dish called cauliflower cheese that was basically cauliflower swamped in a roux-based cheese sauce, with extra cheese on top, then baked....
FO: Feather and fan shawl
I posted this a while ago as a WIP, but forgot to mention I’d finished it. The shawl is the Icelandic feather and fan one from Cheryl Oberle’s “Folk Shawls”, knitted in New Lanark Mills’ aran-weight wool in (IIRC) gritstone. It was left over from an earlier cardigan. The shawl starts in a fairly standard...
FOs: two baktus scarves
Baktus is a scarf pattern that originated with Scandinavian knitting bloggers and has been very popular this year. You take a ball of sock yarn, cast on four stitches, and increase gradually until you’ve used just under half the ball (judging by weight), then decrease at the same rate. I’ve knitted two so far. The...
FO alert: sockses
The red ones in the middle are the new ones. The yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit tweed, so as you can probably see the red yarn has black and brown tweedy flecks in it. I really liked it, and would happily knit more socks with it. The pattern is just my personal basic sock pattern...
